Burkina Faso Flying Labs Newsletters 2019

1. Newsletter Q2 2019
Using drone for precision agriculture to
farmers in Burkina Faso
Beginning of the cost-benefit analysis on rice using drone for precision agriculture to farmers in
Burkina Faso:
The project started in mid-February for 3 months and was based in Burkina Faso. It is being implemented
by Espace Geomatique, Burkina Faso Flying Labs and INERA, financed by CTA. It involves 30 producers
from Korsimoro for the test phase and 21 farmers from Mogtedo as witnesses. The main idea is to show
how drone NDVI analysis can help to advice the farmers and how it can improve the yields. The project is
at its beginning stage. Two drones are being used: a DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ for RGB images generation and
Parrot Disco pro with multispectral sensor for multispectral images generation. Agisoft Photoscan is the
photogrammetric software used to orthomosaic images generation and NDVI calculations. The flights over
the farms are done on a regular basis of 10 days and the advices are given to the farmers for applications
of fertilizers and water dispatching on the crops.
Key Achievement
Successfully started the cost-benefit project on rice using drone data to advise farmers in fertilizers
application and water dispatching on the crops.

2. Newsletter April, 2019
Upcoming projects Photo Gallery
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Burkina Faso Flying Labs
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Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso
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Training of forestry agents on
VTOL surveillance drone for
wildlife protection, in June for
10 days, in Ouagadougou.
Training of Université de Ouaga
I Pr Joseph Ki-Zerbo on
multirotor and fixed-wings
drones piloting, in June for 5
days.
Upcoming trainings
Participation in the Geodata
conference on digital agriculture in
ECOWAS (Economic Community of
West African States) country,
organized by CILSS (The
Permanent Interstate Committee for
Drought Control in the Sahel), in
Ouagadougou, on 17th and 18th
April 2019.
Participation in AgriNumA'19
conference in Dakar, Senegal from
28th to 30th April 2019, for digital
agriculture in West Africa. The
event was organized by CIRAD
(The French Agricultural Research
Centre for International
Development).
Other activities
Francis Kabore, one of Burkina Faso FL team members, at
AgrinumA19 at Dakar with fellow participants looking through
CTA papers
The conference organizers of AgrinumA19, ie from CIRAD
Montpelier - France