SKY MACHINES
You can tackle this two ways (or a combination of the two). You own your own drone, UAV, or RPA with multi-spectral camera set up and you are trained and comfortable flying it and capturing the data you need and then processing it. Alternatively, you bring in a team who specialise in farm data survey and post flight processing. What you do here depends on you, but I suspect that if you are new to the technology (and most of you are) you will need to bring in a third party to get the whole process started.
With data processing software, UAV control software, camera technology, sensor miniaturisation, UAV hardware etc. changing so fast at the moment and with companies positioning themselves in ever changing ways it may be better to let the industry mature before buying yourself some kit and going the whole hog yourself. However, you should keep a drone on hand yourself and learn to fly it, learn its capabilities and get a feel for the possibilities. There will be things you want to do now and you can take it out of the shed, drive out to the back paddock on your quad-bike or ATV and deploy your little DJI Phantom 4 to your heart’s content.
Sky Machines
A Drone in the Farm Shed