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Dan Crummett

“Smart” Machinery Getting Better Eye Sight

A European tech firm has introduced laser-based technology offering crop monitoring images in five colors and the ability to operate night or day at ranges up to 300 meters.
Over the past 40 years agricultural scanning technology has developed rapidly from sprayers with only the capability to recognize brown bare soil from very green growing plant material to machines capable of guiding moving sprayers to target individual plants
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Change to FAA Regulation Allows 1 Operator to Fly 3 Sprayer Drones

FFA regulation exemption for U.S.-based drone maker allows 1 person to operate 3 drones in a swarm, a 3-fold increase in productivity

The FAA recently granted Texas-based drone manufacturer Hylio a regulatory exemption that allows 1 operator to simultaneously pilot 3 heavy-lift drones instead of requiring an operator and observer per 1 drone over 55 pounds. 


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