I see them evolving to spot spray. There are programs now where you fly a pattern over your field every week with the drone, and get back a big picture of the field and color charts of where the crop is good, bad, where issues are that should be looked at. It's baby steps now, once the near infrared cameras get more common it will hit the big time.
Then the little drone with the fancy camera will pull in a spray plan to the big drone with concentrated herbicide, and hit the weed spots.
Actually will cut down on the amount of spray used. Very specific spraying where the weeds are.
Or insect problems. Same deal.
Going to take some paperwork to get from here to there tho.
Drones are not caught up on regulation yet. Hobby drones fall under the radio controlled regulations more or less. Commercial use of drones has not been well thought out or licensed yet.
My state wants to start using drones to Inspect bridges, and they are running into the same issues. Can they even fly in a city, and then within 5 miles of an airport, and so on.
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