We have been a long term partner of the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture and the Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences since the early drone times in developing a drone-based, cheap but reliable remote sensing platform for automated crop quality mapping and yield estimation. The technology has advanced a lot in the last years worldwide, NDVI and other multispectral cameras are now commonly used in precision agriculture; however, our joint research remained unique in the sense that we have performed long term comparisons on dozens of wheat varieties at different locations throughout Hungary and correlated the drone-based measurements with standard crop quality measures to validate the efficiency of aerial data in predicting yield and variety performance.

Related publications

• Vásárhelyi, G., Jung, A., Bónis, P., Vresak, M., Somorjai, G., Mones, E., … Drexler, D. (2016). Intelligent Flying Camera System For Mobile Crop Monitoring And On-Farm Breeding. In ESA 14 - Growing landscapes – Cultivating innovative agricultural systems (pp. 35–36). Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• Drexler, D., Jung, A., Bónis, P., Somorjai, G., Mones, E., Vresak, M., … Vásárhelyi, G. (2016). Mobile crop monitoring by intelligent flying cameras for breeding stations. In International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use (CASLU) (p. 33). Budapest, Hungary.