1. The Power of Local
Building aid, health, development and environmental
solutions by sustainably localizing robotics technologies
WEBINAR
Building Sustainable Smart Farming
Ecosystems-Path to Socio Economic
Development in Nigeria.

2. Adewale Adegoke
MD

3. INTRODUCTION
This webinar is divided into five sections-
1. About Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest Hub
2. Drones in agriculture
3. Implementing drones for agriculture
4. Case Studies
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4. ABOUT FLYING LABS
NIGERIA SOUTHWEST
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5. About Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest Hub
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We are a drone data innovation hub that identifies and builds local skills in digital
entrepreneurship in order to facilitate youth employment and increase the socio-economic
impact of youth and professionals. We incubate innovative drone and data ideas that transform
lives, especially in the agricultural sector to achieve key SDGs.

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Services
Building local
skills in
Drone
Technology

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Other services
Tree counting Using Artificial Intelligence
Crop condition detection

8. DRONES IN
AGRICULTURE
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9. Drones in Agriculture
Implementing drones for agriculture presents a new opportunity in data collection for agriculture due to the
unique nature of crops and the dynamics of crop production.Contrary to the operations of regular survey
drones, the drones for agriculture use multispectral sensors to detect the field variability in crop production by
measuring the variable reflectance values along the Near Infrared and Red bands of the electro magnetic
spectrum.
Parrot Bluegrass Professional
Multispectral drone

10. Types of Drones in Agriculture
Parrot Bluegrass Professional
Multispectral drone
Joyance crop spraying drone

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Drones collect raw data and translate it with algorithms into
useful information. Therefore, they can be used for various
applications in farming, such as the monitoring of the following
parameters;
1. Crop health-damage caused by pests, color change due
to pest infection.
2. Vegetation indices- leaf area, anomaly detection,
treatment efficacy, phenology, yield
3. Crop Spraying
4. Plant scouting- plant size, plot statistics, stand number,
compromised plots, planter skips
5. Water needs- water-stressed parts of the field/orchard in
need of watering
6. Soil analysis-nutrient availability for plant nutrient
management
Role of Drone Technology in Agriculture

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Vegetation absorbs and reflects solar radiation in different bands. The percentage of refracted radiation
in specific bands, such as near infrared (NIR), red (RED), and short-wave infrared (SWIR), varies with plant
health and water stress . The most used vegetation index is the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index) which describes the vigour level of a crop.NDVI is highly informative, as it allows the immediate
recognition of the areas of the farm or field that have problems.

13. IMPLEMENTING
DRONES FOR
AGRICULTURE
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Approach to Implementation
Drone for agriculture is part of a technology process in farm optmisation. Flying Labs Nigeria
Southwest Hub as adopted the approach of setting up a smart farming advisory and technical center
as a means of building capacity of youth in smart farming, localization of drone technology especially
in small holder agriculture and farm optimization.

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Approach to Implementation
Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest unbundles the concept of agriculture into manageable parts to
understand the need for drones in agriculture.

16. Smart Farming
Advisory and
Technical
Center
The smart farming
advisory and technical
center is a one stop shop
for all drone and smart
farming related services.
Smart
Farming
Capacity building
GAP
Drone flight
Data processing
Data science
AI
Extension
services
GAP
Crop health
monitoring
Pest Monitoring
Feedback
Data processing
Processing of
multispectral
images
Interpretation of
multispectral
images
Agronomy
services
Advisory based
on output of
extension
services
R&D

17. Localization
In localizing the application of drones in agriculture ,youth are trained on mapping, drone piloting and
data interpretation. This essential to build the skill set of local youth in digital agropreneurship, while
creating job opportunities for the youth as e-extension personnel.
Secondly ,Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest Hub, works closely with farmer cooperatives and
association to ensure that there is uptake of the drone technology for the farmers.

18. CASE STUDY
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Case Study-Cotton Farmers
Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest Hub has partnered with Agroxchange Technology Service to provide
crop monitoring, farmer profiling, capacity building and drone crop spraying services to the Kogi State
chapter of the National Association of Cotton farmers(NACOTAN). The key objective of the
engagement is to create a structured geospatial database of cotton farmers, apply drone technology
and remote sensing to monitor the health of the captured cotton farms in order to achieve optimal
yields, ensure compliance with Good Agronomy Practices and increase the capacity of the cotton
farmers to pay back loans and meet market standards.
The approach is highlighted below
Capacity
building of
local youth in
mapping
Creation of
geospatial
database of
cotton farmers
Drone
spraying and
mapping

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Case Study 1

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Flying Labs Nigeria Southwest Hub as implemented ESRI survey 123 and ArcGIS online to
implement a continuous data collection and update mechanism whereby trained local youth collect
the data on cotton farmers and send the data in real time and offline modes to a central database.
The ArcGIS online provides an interactive method of presenting and viewing the data collected by
NACOTAN management.
This approach provides an opportunity to integrate mapping and drone technology with both the
cotton farmers and NACOTAN workflow.
The farmer boundary measurements allow for precise setting of flight plan over a farm during the
drone application stage.