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Drones are being used in farming sector for assessing quality of soil and compensation for losses due to natural calamities like flood etc.. Governments around the world working on developing local prototypes for soil health (as soil quality changes from geography to geography) - which includes monitoring and integrating it with satellites for large scale agricultural applications in the future.

Apart from helping farmers in the planting season, drones can fight off deforestation in an effective way. ÌýDrones can fire off pre-germinated seed pods (biodegradable) into the ground at the rate of one per second and it has been estimated that a fleet of 60 drones can plant a billion trees in a year.Ìý

Before the introduction of drones into farming, farmers relied on traditional methods such as labor-intensive manual spraying and hiring crop dusters to spray fields that were too large for manual labor. Drones reduce time and cost, which is why drones are now widely accepted as an alternative to manual spraying.

There is a numberÌýof applications available with drones for crop monitoring. One of the methods proposed to monitor vegetation is by multispectral and thermal imagery. The thermal imagery captured by infrared camera monitoring vegetation as it indicates the rapid change in vegetation reflectance.

Drones produce geo-located maps or information after conducting a survey that could be used to help write Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI), a customize water application based on topography information, soil data maps, yield data, and other user-defined information. The VRI adjust irrigation management in close collaboration with the agronomist.

Multispectral imaging camera sensors on agricultural drones produceÌýmultispectral and hyperspectral imagery which are often used to measure the responses of plants in the visible and near-infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to remotely detect plant stress.