On the 16th and 17th January Project URSULA exhibited at the 32nd LAMMA Show in Lincolnshire. LAMMA is the UK’s leading agricultural machinery equipment and service show and attracts over 40,000 people. This year saw a record number of exhibitors and an excellent attendance despite the snow and sub-zero temperatures. Our presence at the show [...]

We are attending LAMMA 13, launching a new product and providing some hints of what is still to come with the launch of URSULA Agriculture. There’s a lot to see on our show stand including our G2 Airframe, some new displays of imagery captured during our 2012 flying programme and regular presentations of URSULA’s capabilities [...]

Mark Jarman the Project lead for Project URSULA is presenting at the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) Vegetable Agronomists meeting on 13th November. During the summer Project URSULA flew trial plots of vining peas at the PGRO research station at Thornhaugh, near Peterborough. The plots contained multiple varieties and replicates to monitor progress through [...]

At Cereals 2012 Reverend Canon Alan Robson, Agricultural Chaplain to Lincoln Cathedral, asked us to participate in the Cathedral’s Harvest Festival Service. We were absolutely delighted to accept and yesterday we took along one of our trusty G2 UAVs to the service. “So far, 2012 has been a year of mixed fortune and mixed weather…But [...]

In 2012 Project URSULA captured imagery of Winter Wheat on a large farm in Gloucestershire immediately prior to fertiliser application. By comparing the imagery it is possible to see where more or less fertiliser needs to be applied. The example RGB images shown below were captured before first (March), second (April) and final (May) fertiliser [...]

After a brilliant show in 2012 we have decided to exhibit again at Cereals 2013. Cereals is the leading technical event for the UK arable industry. Here’s our stand at Cereals 2012

We’ll be exhibiting at LAMMA, the UK’s leading Farm machinery, equipment and services show on 16th and 17th January 2013. The show is being hosted by the Newark and Nottinghamshire Showground, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2NY

Last night we featured on Newsnight in a wide ranging piece on ‘Drones’ (about 27:40 in). Our application of this technology as visitors to this site already know is focused on precision agriculture and ‘state of the crop’ applications. We also featured on the BBC website yesterday. The video on the website is particularly good. [...]

When you get a summer like the one we have all witnessed in 2012 crops are inevitably affected. In some places it spells disaster but in others the effects of periods of continual heavy rain can be more difficult to spot. However in these three images of sugar beet taken in the East Riding of [...]

Despite the very wet summer we have managed to continue flying. One of the advantages of a UAS is that it can fly below cloud so for the most part as long as it is not actually raining data capture is possible. Actually flying when there is full cloud cover is not so bad as [...]