We can see drones being used today to help carry out a variety of activities in the market.
Whether it's delivering life-saving medical supplies, survival equipment and supplies to a remote location, helping plant thousands of trees in a forest, monitoring the clean-up of a road after a car accident, there are many ways that the technology has proven to be useful.
It's not just for military endeavors or private hobbyists, as drones have now made their way into a variety of different industry spaces. You can find them being used in the construction field, for real estate, the transportation industry, and a lot more.
It's been suggested that agriculture could be one of the most promising spaces for this technology to flourish.
One occupation that drone technology has quickly made its way into is within the farming industry. There are a growing number of farmers who are looking to turn to using drones to help them with a variety of tasks that they need to complete.
They can use drones to help them check over the crops and to look for damaged areas, they can assess the health of a crop, can be used to spray and plant crops as well, even carry out soil analysis.
By using the drone for something like planting, it's estimated to help reduce their costs by at least 85 percent.
There are a variety of workshops and other educational forums now available, where farmers can go and learn about how to use drones in order to help them with things like surveying crops and more.
Drones are helping farmers to be able to get the information that they need quicker, especially when it comes to surveying their land after storms etc, and that can help them to reduce losses and save money.
Drones might be growing in popularity, but there are still many people out there today out there who don't know the first thing about getting started with one and all that it has to offer, the capability it has and the potential for what can be done. That's why these sorts of workshops are beneficial to others them learn about getting started; they might not be familiar with Youtube or be able to use online resources to learn about drone technology.
Education is vital when it comes to helping farmers to understand the full potential of this technology and how it might be able to be used in their daily life to assist them in meeting what needs to get done.
If this technology is something that can help them to make better decisions and minimize risk in their field of work then it's clearly something that's helped to improve their way of life.
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Sources:
http://www.kyma.com/news/yuma-applies-for-new-faa-program-to-use-drones-in-agriculture/683429562
http://www.precisionag.com/specialty-crops/drones/agricultural-drones-from-detection-to-diagnosis/
http://savannahnow.com/news/2018-01-11/farmers-learn-ways-check-crops-using-drones
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601935/six-ways-drones-are-revolutionizing-agriculture/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/503527/these-drones-can-plant-100000-trees-one-day
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a27743/company-wants-drones-to-plant-a-billion-trees/
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