The Precision Farming event was very successful and Project URSULA created a lot of interest. Mark Jarman our project lead took part in a BBC Lincolnshire interview and we are pleased to have received some coverage in the Farmer’s Guardian and also Farmer’s Weekly.

Project URSULA is attending the Precision Farming event taking place at the East of England Showground Today. The Project URSULA team will be on hand to demonstrate its innovative approach to ‘state of the crop’ data capture and the spectacular results that can be achieved to direct intervention. The event website can be viewed here: To [...]

This week we kicked off the 2012 flying season. Flying in Gloucestershire on a cold, windy and overcast day proved challenging but the first results are encouraging. We are flying the G2 platform again in 2012 but with a completely new technical payload which is exciting and will provide us with considerably more data to [...]

Mark Jarman took part in a radio Interview with Lincs FM at the recent LAMMA show. LAMMA is the UK’s leading farm machinery, equipment and services show. www.lammashow.co.uk

This week we have commenced flying using the G2 platform with our new 2012 sensor. The new sensor provides us with further multispectral capabilities and of course more data to crunch. Getting it right operationally is vital if we are to make the most of the opportunities that the new sensor provides. Test flying this [...]

The whole Project URSULA team met for a two day conference to discuss what has been a very fruitful year in Aberystwyth last week. What has been achieved in year one you might ask? Here’s a brief résumé: Official launch event in March Full flying season over a number of farms with multiple crop sampling [...]

Project URSULA will be presenting at Location Wales 2011, the AGI Cymru Annual Conference and exhibition which takes place at Cardiff City Hall on 29th November. The team will be presenting the results of the first season of flying with its UAS based hyper-spectral remote sensing platform. Full conference programme on the next page. Full [...]

Project URSULA’s first flying season has come to an end and very productive it has been too! Not only have we been able to fly an extensive range of farmland but also coastal and island zones to explore the operational envelope, our own skills and the capabilities of the UAS. Project URSULA has a specific [...]

Project Ursula visited Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) on 19th October to learn how Kew makes use Geographic Information Systems and its link to arable crops. Organised as part of the AGI (Association for Geographic Information) Environmental SIG (Special Interest Group)’s activities, the half day visit included discussions with key members of Kew’s team and [...]

Last week members of the Project URSULA team attended the ASTRAEA Conference. ASTRAEA  (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment) is a UK industry-led consortium focusing on the technologies, systems, facilities, procedures and regulations that will allow autonomous vehicles to operate safely and routinely in civil airspace over the United Kingdom. There were over [...]