ILVO Experimental Farm

Living Lab

Agrifood Technology

How the farm is managed

Experimental farm

Technology

Ultra-high-resolution red-green-blue (RGB) on drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect weed, disease and pest in arable crops. The purpose is to only spray where and when it's needed so we can minimize the use and impact of plant protection products. With our technology we detect pests, weeds and diseases using drones and only spray where and when they are detected. We use a RGB (red green blue, a normal camera) on a drone to monitor arable crops and a.i. algorithms to detect pests, weeds and diseases. We then create with other software application maps so the farmer can use this map to only spray where there are weeds/diseases/pests. The benefits are mainly environmental: the amount of chemical plant protection products that are needed is reduced without compromising yield.