1. UAV use for
Agriculture
in the UAE
Peter Dawson
Senior Technical Lecturer
Institute of Applied Technology
Abu Dhabi
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3. Topics Covered
• Farming in the UAE
• Reasons to use UAV’s
• How we see the health of crops
• What do we use
• Overflight results
• UAV applications in agriculture
4. Farming in the UAE
• Approximately 24,000 farms
• Two-thirds of Emirates water
consumption
• 200,00 acres of land cultivated
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6. Reasons to use UAV’s
• Global environmental concerns
• Cost savings
• Timely data
11. “UAV technology allows us to view
the landscape from an elevated
perspective”
It gives us information that may not
just be difficult to determine from
ground level but, may well be
impossible.
12. How do we see the health?
• NVDI
–Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index
15. Accuracy of Data
• Accuracy depends on
– Image resolution
–GPS quality and accuracy
–Camera position and time
–Ground control points
–Flight Planning
16. Post Production
• Raw Data
• Computing power or “Cloud”
• Finally – the end product
–Actual data we can use
22. Platform Choice
• What is your budget
• What is the size of the project or
farm
• What is the accuracy requirements
• Environmental considerations
• Take-off and landing area
