English Article

A flight path with obstacles

At Agroscope, the ‘Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural research’, in
Nyon, Switzerland, agriculture scientists fly a drone to study nitrogen level in leaves,
not for a farm as a whole, but for each individual plant. The drone takes a large number of
images, which when fed into a computer model with data on soil condition, weather, time
of the year and other information helps analyse which plants are deficient in nitrogen,
enabling farmers to add corrective fertilizer only where necessary...........