NDVI vegetation News
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What is NDVI?
What is NDVI? For more than 40 years agronomists and scientists have used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess the health of crops and plants. But what is NDVI? And how do you know you’re getting the real deal? How does NDVI relate to crop health? NDVI was created when scientists learned that a plant’s unique reflection of a combination of visible red light and ...
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Sentera Responds to Market Demand Adding TrueNDVI™ to DJI Mavic Drone
Sentera today announced its ability to convert a DJI Mavic ™ drone into a precision scouting tool that collects TrueNDVI™ crop health data. The ultra-lightweight, super-precise Sentera NDVI Single Sensor is integrated onto the pocket-sized Mavic drone, featuring one of DJI’s most sophisticated flying cameras ever. In a single flight, visual-band RGB, near-infrared (NIR) and ...
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Sentera Launches Revolutionary Fixed-Wing Phoenix 2 Imaging UAV
Sentera Phoenix 2: The Most Precise Grid Pattern the Market Has Seen Sentera, LLC, a global provider of UAV hardware, sensors, and data management platforms, brings a whole new level of control to users with the Phoenix 2 Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), launched today. The Sentera Phoenix 2 is lightweight and highly durable, and may be the most precise drone available today. ...
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Sentera Announces Mavic 2 Pro Double 4K Upgrade
Today, Sentera announced the availability of its Double 4K precision agriculture sensor on DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone. This offering provides Double 4K quality at entry-level pricing, expanding data collection options for ag professionals and growers. Several system configurations are available including collection of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference red edge ...
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Sentera’s real-time NDVI video streaming is a giant leap for growers & agronomists everywhere
Streaming Directly to Your Mobile Device in Real Time Sentera today announced the upcoming release of LiveNDVI video: livestreamed NDVI video via the Sentera Double 4K sensor. This breakthrough technology will offer agronomists worldwide the fastest way to make decisions and specify inputs based on complete, real-time data. Sentera’s Double 4K “little green sensor” processes ...
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Sentera Unlocks the Power of Drone Data with More Features, at Significantly Lower Price Points
AgVault and OnTop Software Platforms Now Available at Tiered Subscription Levels Sentera is enabling every drone user to unlock the power of their data by offering AgVault and OnTop software platforms at affordably priced tiered subscription levels. An annual subscription is now offered at a 79% price reduction, unlocking the power of drone data management for even more users. Sentera is an ...
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Sentera introduces revolutionary multispectral double 4k sensor
Today, Sentera announced the release of its Multispectral Double 4K Sensor, offering five precise spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR). This sensor enables users to collect visual band imagery as well as vegetation indices based upon the addition of NIR or Red Edge, including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized difference vegetation red edge ...
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Sentera Features Crop Health Management Products at InfoAg 2016
InfoAg Conference 2016 Sentera will display its industry-leading precision agriculture solutions at The InfoAg Conference taking place in St. Louis, Missouri, August 2-4. Ag Drones The Sentera exhibit, located at booth 27, will feature critical crop health management drones, sensors, and AgVault™ 2.0 software. Featured aircraft include the Phantom 4 and Phantom 3 drones with normalized ...
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Sentera Launches Revolutionary Fixed - Wing Phoenix 2 Imaging UAV
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of UAV hardware, sensors and data management platforms, brings a whole new level of control to users with the Phoenix 2 Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), launched today. The Phoenix 2 is light-weight and highly durable, and may be the most precise drone available today. “The Phoenix 2 brings a level of precision and accuracy to UAVs that hasn’t ...
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Sentera Partners with RDO Equipment Co. to Offer UAV Solutions
Sentera-RDO Equipment partnership brings complete UAV solution packages to RDO Customers Sentera is excited to announce its partnership with RDO Equipment Co., a total solutions provider with 78 stores servicing the agriculture, construction, environmental, surveying, and irrigation industries. The RDO Equipment partnership augments RDO’s already robust product offering, giving their ...
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Sentera Enables UAV Flight Planning that Far Exceeds Battery Life
Sentera announced today their latest update to the AgVault™ 2.0 Mobile iOS app, featuring a battery-swap capability that enables operators to plan a flight of any size and seamlessly accommodates any number of battery swap-outs. The feature monitors UAV battery life, notes the exact coordinates where it left off, and returns to the operator when a new battery is required. Once a replacement ...
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NDVI and Your Farm: Understanding NDVI for Plant Health Insights
NDVI and Your Farm: Understanding NDVI for Plant Health Understanding your crops’ health status isn’t the easiest thing to do. Sure, you can use the “eye test”, and a number of foliar contact and direct measurement techniques. But, what if there was an easy, fast and efficient way to see the health of plants and their status and progress over time? That’s where ...
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Sentera Offers First NDVI Crop Health Maps Showing Field Contrast and Progression
NDVI Toolbox for AgVault Offers Unprecedented Insights into Field Vigor Sentera announced the release of NDVI Toolbox for its AgVault software platform: a set of tools for customizable Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data that give growers and agronomists significant insight into field and crop health, today and throughout the season. Users can recolor, dynamically regenerate, and ...
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Sentera Launches High-Precision Sensor Product Line
Today, Sentera announced new additions to its small, lightweight High-Precision Single Sensor product family. The new High-Precision NDVI Single and High-Precision NDRE Single utilize patent-pending technology to improve spectral band separation and generate more accurate vegetation index measurements. The High-Precision Single sensor is available in two variants: normalized difference vegetation ...
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Drones help farmers in the Philippines prepare for climate disasters
In a bid to stay ahead of the negative impacts of climate change, floods and typhoons on food security, the Government of the Philippines and FAO have started using unmanned aerial drones to assess where farmlands are most at risk from natural disasters and quickly assess damages after they strike. Under a pilot phase of the still-fledgling project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture of the ...
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Main digital technologies in precision farming
We briefly covered some of the different forms of technologies that are used in precision farming. FIELD MONITORING Crop Health Monitoring (mostly based on NDVI) — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a method that is used to determine the health of crops through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. It looks at various wavelengths of light, both visible and ...
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Sentera builds reseller network to over 350 agriculture store fronts
Sentera today announced the availability of its precision agriculture solutions at over 350 retail locations across North America. By broadening the reach of Sentera’s precision agriculture offering, agronomists, crop consultants, and growers can leverage critical normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data starting day one of the 2017 growing season. Early adopters immediately see ...
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