Since 2013, DroneDeploy has grown to become the largest cloud-based drone data platform, counting 30,000 users, and 30 million acres mapped across 180 countries. Through its platform, DroneDeploy enables its users to map, survey and inspect aerial data captured by drones.

New Holland Agriculture expands its product offering with the introduction of three Precision Land Management technologies, PLM Drone Data Management, IntelliTurn and Cygnus-A receiver. These new products, like the rest of the PLM offering, are engineered to reduce cost, increase productivity, and improve efficiency.

There are many discussions about what the real value of UAS will be to the grower, but for the first time we can begin to see the "varsity" players breaking away in this industry as they are closing in on real solutions beyond the basic scouting solutions.