Adoption and Utilization of Drones for Advanced Precision Farming: A Review

Abstract

India is the considerable maker of agricultural products but has very low agricultural productivity. Productivity of farm needs to be improved in a way that farmers can earn more profit from the same piece of land with less labor. Advanced precision farming may able to do it. Advanced precision farming technologies include use of drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's), Airborne Digital Photography (ADP) etc. UAV’s are controlled remotely by telemetry, where the operator keeps up visual contact with the aircraft using GPS and inertial guidance. The initial uses in agriculture have been for remote sensing, with a prominence on the visual investigation of crop yield or farm field conditions and for tracking resources like machinery, workers or product. This paper presents a review on utilization of precision farming using aerial based system such as drones or UAV’s for sustainability farming.