Siginon Aviation Complex, First Freight Avenue, JKIA Nairobi, Kenya

Use of Drones, Robots and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

The company, of late, has introduced the use of drones for low airborne data acquisition. These photographs are later processed to produce rectified and georeferenced photos which can be used in mapping. This methodology is used to map large areas and inaccessible areas.

The latest buzzwords for the sector are drones and robots. High accuracy GPS- or GNSS– based fully autonomous or robotic field machines have begun to be employed in small-scale, high profit-margin agriculture.

The main areas of use are:

  • Precision agriculture and Survey farmland
  • Remote sensing and mapping fields, crops and land
  • Multi-spectral measurements of site-specific land development
  • Analysis of soil, health, and vigour of crops
  • Agricultural development, irrigation and nutrient management
  • Fertilizer and pesticide measurement
  • Environmental impact assessments and flood risk surveys