Scouting Drone

The FBD Scouting Drone, is the easiest way to see what your crops need before you spend a penny on inputs. It's a light, one-person drone that flies your fields on a pre-set plan and captures two things at once: an ordinary high-detail photo of the field, and special crop-health imagery that reveals stress and problems days before they're visible to the naked eye. Alongside its 20-megapixel full-colour camera, it carries four dedicated crop-health cameras that read the light plants reflect, the tell-tale early signs of hunger, stress, weeds and disease. A sunlight sensor on top keeps every reading accurate whatever the weather, and built-in centimetre-accurate RTK positioning means your maps line up perfectly with your fields, year after year. It flies itself, senses obstacles all around, and covers a large area in a single 43-minute flight. Supplied and set up by FarmingByDrone and backed by our reporting service, every flight comes back to you as a clear, plain-English report and ready-to-use treatment maps, to act on yourself or hand straight to your agronomist. You press one button; we handle the technical part. Key benefits - Sees crop stress days before the eye can — a real head start to fix problems early - Two cameras in one — full-colour plus four-band crop-health imaging - Centimetre-accurate maps - that line up year after year (RTK) - Big coverage, fast — a large area surveyed in a single 43-minute flight - Flies itself - with all-round obstacle sensing — no piloting skill needed - Folds down - to carry in one hand - Feeds straight into the Farming By Drone reporting service — no complicated software for you Technical specifications Aircraft Takeoff weight 1,050 g Folded (L×W×H) 223 × 96.3 × 122.2 mm Unfolded (L×W×H) 347.5 × 283 × 139.6 mm Max flight time 43 minutes (no wind) Max speed 15 m/s (Normal) · 21 m/s (Sport) Max wind resistance 12 m/s Operating temperature −10 °C to 40 °C Operating efficiency up to ~2 km² (≈200 ha) per flight *(mapping; varies with flight height)* Cameras RGB camera 4/3 CMOS, 20 MP effective; aperture f/2.8–f/11; electronic shutter 8–1/8000 s Multispectral camera 4 × 5 MP (1/2.8″ CMOS) — Green (G) 560 ± 16 nm — Red (R) 650 ± 16 nm — Red Edge (RE) 730 ± 16 nm — Near-Infrared (NIR) 860 ± 26 nm Sunlight (irradiance) sensor Built-in for accurate, calibrated crop-health readings Positioning & sensing RTK accuracy 1 cm + 1 ppm (horizontal) · 1.5 cm + 1 ppm (vertical) Hovering accuracy (RTK) 1 cm + 1 ppm (horizontal) · 1.5 cm + 1 ppm (vertical) Obstacle sensing Omnidirectional binocular vision (forward range up to 20 m) Transmission & storage Video transmission O3 Enterprise — up to 15 km (FCC); ~200 ms latency Scouting Drone Essentials Kit contains : - 1 x Scouting Drone - 1 x Flight Battery - 2 x 512Gb Memery Cards - 1 x Landing Pad - 1 x Memory Card Reader / Holder - 1 x Rugged transportation Case - 1 x 1 Yr RTK Correction Service - 1 x A2 CoC License (if required) - 1 x CAA Operator License Extended Use Kit - 2 x Flight Battery - 1 x Car Charger - 1 x Battery Hub & Charger