With aerial and ground LiDAR (3D) we analyse volume, biomass and leaf density tree by tree. Canopy size determines how much water each tree transpires, how much light it intercepts and how much it can produce: measuring it turns your orchard into a real inventory on which to match water to what the crop actually needs.
How much water a tree demands depends, above all, on how much canopy it carries. Two trees of the same age in the same plot can carry very different canopy volumes — and irrigating both with the same allocation costs yield in one and water in the other. An irrigation plan that does not know the orchard’s structure distributes water blind, no matter how many sensors sit behind it.
Measuring canopies has always been the bottleneck of field agronomy: a pole, a measuring tape and a sample of a few trees extrapolated to the rest of the farm, with all the error that carries. LiDAR solves it at the root: from the drone, the whole orchard in one morning; from the ground, the inside of the canopy, where the flight cannot reach. What used to be a sample of twenty trees is now the real trees of your farm.
Within a single sector, large and small trees grow side by side, some vigorous, some stressed. If they all receive the same allocation, some get too much water and others fall short just when the harvest is being decided. We measure every tree to group together the ones that need the same, and match each sector’s irrigation to its real size.
Every tree on the farm is characterized with its real measurements: canopy volume, height and width. This pistachio tree is one example.
The high-density LiDAR point cloud of the whole farm: the complete structural photograph of the orchard, exactly as it stands this season.
Canopy volume, height, biomass, leaf density and position of every tree, individualized. Not a per-plot average: every tree with its own record.
Where trees are missing and what the terrain is like: slopes and elevation differences that condition the hydraulic design and how water is distributed.
The structure does not stay in a report: it goes straight into the platform and sets how much water each irrigation sector demands.
One flight today, and one every season
The price depends on the area; request your proposal. And we recommend repeating the flight every season: an annual follow-up flight measures how the orchard’s structure evolves year over year — essential in young orchards, where the canopy changes fast and irrigation must change with it.
The infrastructure is yours
The gateway, the weather station and the sensors become part of your farm’s assets from the day of installation. So does the data. No perpetual rentals, no dependence on network operators — built on the industrial LoRaWAN standard.
Tell us where your farm is, the crop and the area, and we will prepare a tailored characterization proposal.
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