The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is pleased to inform this community that it has been supporting the establishment of drone operators in Benin, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. These drone operators are equipped to facilitate advanced crop research using remote-sensed data interpretation services offered by the French company, Airinov.
Among others, their services are tailored to experimental field work by offering very precise and reliable statistics based on drone-sensed imagery. Flying several times over a season enables agronomists / researchers to have a dynamic view on their trials and take informed decisions or draw conclusions based on reliable data. Indicators provided include but are not limited to: NDVI, biomass, chlorophyll rate, leaf area index, emergence rate, water stress, missing plants, height or flowering… Outputs are tailor-made to the trial (excel, pdf, web visualisation, geotiff and more.
For more information, you are welcome to contact directly the trained and equipped drone operators:
Benin
Global Partners Sarl, http://www.dvtinitiatives.org
Contact person: Abdelaziz Lawani, abdelawani@gmail.com
Twitter: @GBPartners_bj
Ghana
Farmerline Ltd.: www.farmerline.co
Contact person: Mr Worlali Senyo, worlali@farmerline.org
Twitter: @farmerline
Ghana
Syecomp Business Services Ltd. : www.syecomp.com
Contact : projects@syecomp.com
Twitter: @Syecomp_
République Démocratique du Congo
Initiative Régionale de Documentation et d’Accompagnement Communautaire au Développement (IRDAC) : http://www.irdac.net
Contact person: Barthélemy Boika, barthboika@gmail.com
Twitter: @irdac_
Tanzania
Agrinfo Company Ltd. www.agrinfo.co.tz
Contact: info@agrinfo.co.tz
Twitter: @agrinfotz
Tanzania
Uhurulabs Ltd.: http://www.uhurulabs.org
Contact person: Mr Frederick E. Mbuya, frederick.mbuya@uhurunet.com
Twitter: @uhurulab
Uganda
ESIPPS International Ltd. : www.esipps-int.org
Contact person: Dr Jane Bemigisha, Executive Director: bemigisha@yahoo.co.uk
Twitter : @esipps
Those interested in drone technology are welcome to join a dedicated DGroup being animated via www.uav4ag.org