Review on Application of Drone Systems in Precision Agriculture

TLDR

Precision agriculture faces challenges such as crop losses from pests and diseases, heavy reliance on pesticides that pose health risks, and limited access to labor and equipment in developing countries like India. This review examines the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for crop monitoring and pesticide application. The authors synthesize existing studies on UAV deployment for precision agriculture, focusing on monitoring techniques and spraying protocols.

Abstract

In the present era, there are too many developments in precision agriculture for increasing the crop productivity. Especially, in the developing countries like India, over 70% of the rural people depends upon the agriculture fields. The agriculture fields faces dramatic losses due to the diseases. These diseases came from the pests and insets, which reduces the productivity of the crops. Pesticides and fertilizers are used to kill the insects and pests in order to enhance the crop quality. The WHO (World Health Organization) estimated as one million cases of ill effected, when spraying the pesticides in the crop filed manually. The Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – aircrafts are used to spray the pesticides to avoid the health problems of humans when they spray manually. UAVs can be used easily, where the equipment and labors difficulty to operate. This paper reviews briefly the implementation of UAVs for crop monitoring and pesticide spraying.