Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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23 stories in Drones & imaging.
FAO’s Central and Western Region locust commissions launched a programme combining classroom, simulator and field instruction for national surveillance and response teams.
A Ghana–Belgium partnership is developing locally grounded maize-yield estimation while addressing the field-data mismatches that can undermine satellite models.
Embrapa-linked research follows cattle body measurements over time, exploring a less disruptive way to identify changes in growth rate.
A review of more than 100 initiatives in Europe and Central Asia highlights local operators, transparent pricing and usable outputs as adoption priorities.
An Earth-observation demonstrator for RICOWAS is being designed around geolocated farm records and the realities of a West African adaptation programme.
Philippine field research links aerial measurements with plant physiology across 318 rice accessions, offering a faster way to compare breeding material.
Australian cotton researchers are combining aerial sensing methods to distinguish crop performance and disease stress that ordinary photographs can miss.
A five-day Côte d’Ivoire workshop linked flight operations, image analysis and shared breeding services for participants from seven West and Central African countries.
A study reports 84% crop-classification accuracy using an open-source satellite model, while highlighting limitations in ground data and mixed-crop evaluation.
NASA’s October report links Landsat observations, farmer experience and recent lake-monitoring research to urgent irrigation and land-management decisions in the Texas High Plains.
Historical example: A Purdue team connected UAV thermal sensing, image processing and plot-level tables for agricultural research.
