Kentucky GIS Conference 2024

Brookside Labs has been using with fixed wing aerial drone technology for several growing seasons and learning to incorporate aerial imagery, both RGB and Multispectral into our data analysis for our consultants and customers.  To date, we have collected bare soil imagery for soil color analysis, soybeans in the early vegetative stages for stand count and for replant decisions, corn in the mid-late reproductive stages for nitrogen use efficiencies and if/when post-mortem nitrogen sampling is needed, early weed management scouting in soybeans, scouting for field destruction from strong storms, and crop growth progression in corn. We are using aerial imagery software including GIS to develop tools to help provide needed answers and  help use develop new ways of furthering the technology.