Autonomous crop scouting + AI agronomist
A Drona Labs drone flies your fields at dawn on its own. By breakfast you have a stress map, pest and disease alerts pinned to GPS points, and a variable-rate prescription ready to load into the sprayer — no agronomist windshield time, no walking rows.
Fully autonomous dock-to-dock flights · sub-inch imagery · works on corn, soy, wheat, specialty
By the time stress is visible from the truck cab, you've already lost yield. Scouting on foot covers a fraction of your acres — and agronomists are stretched thinner every year.
Fungal disease, nutrient deficiency, and insect pressure all start in patches too small to spot from the road. A 10-day head start is the difference between a spot treatment and a yield hit.
A good scout covers maybe 40 representative spots a day. On 2,000 acres that's a sample, not a survey — and the trouble spot is always where nobody walked.
Whole-field passes treat the 90% that's healthy to reach the 10% that isn't. Input costs are up; margins can't carry insurance spraying anymore.
The drone lives in a weatherproof dock at the field edge. It flies itself, charges itself, and uploads itself. The AI does the reading.
Scheduled dawn flights, automatic weather holds, precision landing, and charging — no pilot, no Part 107 stress, no babysitting. You get a text when the report is ready.
NDVI and RGB at resolution fine enough to count plants and spot a single lodged row. Stand counts, emergence maps, and weed escapes — automatically flagged.
Models trained on millions of labeled acres identify disease, pest pressure, nutrient stress, and water issues — each alert pinned to a GPS point with a confidence score and a recommended action.
One tap turns an alert into a variable-rate prescription file for John Deere, Case IH, AGCO, and Trimble displays. Treat the 11 acres that need it, skip the 400 that don't.
A weatherproof base station at the field edge with solar + cellular. One dock covers up to 600 acres; we handle FAA authorizations and flight planning.
Calm air, low sun angle, best imagery. Flights run on your schedule — daily during critical windows, weekly otherwise — and pause themselves for weather.
By 7 a.m. the morning report is on your phone: field health map, ranked alerts, and one-tap prescriptions. Forward any alert to your agronomist or co-op with the imagery attached.
earlier detection of disease and pest pressure vs. ground scouting
average reduction in fungicide and herbicide spend with spot prescriptions
of acres surveyed every flight — not a 40-stop sample
“The dock went in before planting. Mid-July it flagged tar spot in a 9-acre pocket I'd have never walked to — we spot-sprayed three days later. My co-op agronomist looked at the imagery and said it was the earliest catch he'd seen all season. The system paid for the year on that one alert.”
Drop your email and we'll schedule a demo flight over one of your fields this season. You keep the report either way.
You're in — we'll reach out to schedule your demo flight.