Drone Spraying
We offer Survey grade accuracy when it comes to spraying application on undulating and inaccessible terrain
Precision Drone Spraying
At Storm Spatial, we understand the unique challenges our local farmers and land managers face, especially when dealing with difficult terrain. Our drone spraying services are designed to be a supportive tool, offering a practical and precise way to manage your land. We aim to help you achieve your goals, whether it’s healthier crops, effective weed control, or protecting your valuable ground, even in the most challenging areas.
How We Can Help:
- Thoughtful Application: Our drones assist in applying treatments with accuracy, helping to place products where they’re needed most for better outcomes.
- Saving You Time: We offer an efficient way to cover ground, allowing you to focus your valuable time and resources elsewhere on your property.
- Caring for Your Land: By applying treatments from the air, we help minimize soil disturbance, reducing compaction and preserving the integrity of your land, especially in vulnerable conditions.
- A Safer Approach: For areas that are hazardous or difficult to access, our drones provide a way to apply treatments without putting people or heavy machinery at risk.
Working Together on Your Specific Needs
We see our drone spraying as a valuable addition to your existing operations, not a replacement for traditional methods. Instead, we offer a solution for those tricky situations where conventional access is a real challenge:
Challenges our farmers face
- Reaching the Hard-to-Access: Our drones can carefully navigate steep slopes, wet ground, or areas with dense vegetation that are typically inaccessible by tractor, on foot, or with quad bikes. We’re here to help you manage those overlooked parts of your property.
- Protecting Your Soil: One significant benefit of aerial application is the complete absence of tire ruts. This is particularly important for preventing soil erosion and maintaining the health of your paddocks, especially through the wetter winter months.
- Tailored Applications: We’re equipped to assist with a variety of precise spraying tasks, including:
- Creating neat and effective fenceline firebreaks.
- Applying treatments efficiently to fruit trees.
- Conducting variable rate and spot spraying in areas identified by NDVI mapping, for managing specific pest outbreaks, or for tackling persistent weeds like blackberries.
Weed Spraying
Our advanced drone technology enables precise and efficient weed control for invasive species such as:
✓ Blackberry
✓ Gorse
✓ Thistles
✓ Serrated tussock
✓ Bathurst burr
For those incredibly challenging areas like steep cliffs and embankments, our drone technology offers a precise solution for weed management. We can manually target individual weeds, directing our spray applications with pinpoint accuracy in left, right, up, and down movements as needed. To ensure the most effective and responsible approach, we collaborate with experienced agronomists who prescribe the ideal treatment for the specific weeds at hand. Crucially, we work to minimise chemical usage by first identifying and mapping target weeds with advanced AI technology, ensuring we only apply what’s necessary. We’re always learning and refining our weed mapping process with each job, continually improving efficiency and accuracy while always keeping your costs down and focusing on the most sustainable outcomes for your land.
Storm Spatial strictly adheres to regulations set by CASA and Agriculture Victoria regarding spray drift, ensuring environmentally responsible practices.
Spot and Target Spraying
Our foundation in surveying knowledge is a significant advantage, allowing us to leverage survey-grade accuracies for exceptional repeatability in our drone spraying operations. This means we meticulously map and maintain precise site localizations every day we visit your property. For example, if we map a small serrated tussock and then spray it, our precise tracking allows us to know exactly which specific tussock was treated when we map the area again post-application. Furthermore, this same precision is applied to tasks like fenceline mapping for firebreaks, where we set up highly accurate flight paths that our spray drones can follow autonomously, often without the need for joystick input, ensuring consistent and reliable application along crucial boundaries.
Variable Rate Spraying
Variable Rate Spraying with Storm Spatial
We leverage our multispectral drone technology to create detailed vegetation health maps of your property. These maps provide a clear picture of varying conditions across your land, allowing us to identify specific zones that might have different nutrient requirements or areas affected by pests. With this precise information, we can then either carry out targeted applications with our spray drones or generate accurate prescription maps that can be uploaded directly into your existing variable rate boom sprayers. This approach to precision agriculture ensures that chemicals or fertilisers are applied only where and when they are needed, helping you to reduce waste, minimise environmental impact, and work towards more sustainable farming practices for your long-term success.
Fruit Tree Spraying
Helping You Care for Your Fruit Trees
For orchard owners, ensuring every fruit tree receives the precise care it needs can be a real challenge. Our drone spraying services are designed to simplify this for you, helping to deliver pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers exactly where they’ll do the most good. We use tools like DJI Terra and Pix4D to plan detailed 3D flight paths that navigate your orchard with precision, ensuring consistent coverage.
What’s more, for trees that have dense canopies or unique shapes, our drones can follow the natural undulation of the canopy, even spraying in multiple directions. This means your trees get thorough surface contact with the solution, helping to ensure healthier growth and potentially better yields for your efforts. We’re here to provide a smart, efficient way to support the well-being and productivity of your orchard.
Contact Storm Spatial today to learn more about how our drone-based spraying services can benefit your fruit tree orchard.
Leveraging Land Surveying Experience in Drone Applications
Storm Spatials’ unique blend of land surveying expertise and advanced drone technology offers a distinct advantage in the competitive drone market. Our team’s deep understanding of terrain mapping, contours, GPS, and total stations enables us to deliver exceptional results in a variety of applications.
Key areas where Storm Spatial excels:
Our strong background in land surveying, including detailed terrain modeling for civil works, roads, and drainage, directly informs our drone spraying services, ensuring a deep understanding of your land. We tailor our precision to the task: general accuracy for one-off, flat sprays, but crucial high-precision data for vital repetitive monitoring like crop health and change detection, enabling accurate comparisons.
Safety is paramount; using LiDAR technology and our terrain analysis expertise, we safely identify and avoid obstacles like powerlines. This also allows us to create precise ground models and monitor crop health with NDVI analysis, providing valuable insights. By combining NDVI with LiDAR digital terrain models, we identify trends in your land’s health and productivity. Our repeatable survey practices ensure consistent accuracy, allowing us to effectively monitor your spraying programs’ impact weekly or monthly. Ultimately, blending our surveying expertise with drone technology, we aim to offer a truly precise and helpful service, always tailored to your farm’s success.