Raymond Hunt is a research physical scientist with USDA and spoke at the recent International Conference on Precision Agriculture on the application of unmanned ariel systems in precision ag.
“It has a lot of potential for a low altitude remote sensing so we can get a more detailed view of what the crop is for monitoring. It is a general technology that can be applied to almost any crop in many different situations.”
“The problems most people have had to date with remote sensing in agriculture is that agriculture needs certain types of information. Remote sensing can provide other types of information. Usually the two communities don’t see eye to eye. What we are trying to do is get higher resolution getting information closer to what a farmer can use.”
Listen to an interview with Raymond by AgNet West reporter Sabrina Hill here: [wpaudio url=”http://www.zimmcomm.biz/icpa/raymond_hunt_uav.mp3″ text=”Interview with Raymond Hunt”]
