Agricultural Drones Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 to 2022

April 2016 | 288 pages | ID: AB28E4E94E0EN
WinterGreen Research

Abstracts

Agricultural drones use automated process to make farming more productive. Drones provide better, more flexible visualization. Smart drone agricultural uses cameras and provide the prospect of trillions of dollars in farming economic growth. Smart commercial drones connect seamlessly and securely to the Internet and to each other.

Agricultural drone technology has reached a level of maturity that has put these systems at the forefront of farming modernization. Farmers around the entire world are adapting to drone availability, using aerial cameras to visualize plants. Use cases are evolving rapidly. Video, specialized video, targeted video, and agricultural spraying systems are offered.

Agricultural Drones Use Technology for Spraying, Mapping, Pest Control, Seeding, Remote Sensing, and Precision Agriculture

Agricultural technology uses drones to leverage a data-driven future. Inexpensive sensors, cloud computing and intelligent software used in a drone system hold the potential to transform agriculture and help feed the world’s growing population.

Venture investment in agricultural drones has been strong. Investment of venture capital in agricultural technology start-ups reached $2.06 billion in the first half of 2015, 4.25 billion in 2015 doubling the amount of capital invested in this area in 2014.

Agricultural drones leverage the Internet of things (IoT). IoT brings sensors to supplement images of the land from above, making it possible to communicate and use analytics to understand changes in vegetation.

Digital electronics brings significant change to the ancient manual processes of farming. Markets portend to reach multitrillion-dollar payoff from the emerging technology that increases the production and distribution of food. There are technical and policy issues to leverage the potential of the drone use of the Internet of Things (IoT). Challenges include security, privacy and standards. Hackers can enter apparently secure networks to remotely control engines, brakes and steering. This could create a problem on a farm if the network was hacked.

Agricultural industrialization has been brought in some measure by tractors and columbines. Drones bring far greater automated process. Preindustrial agriculture, dating from before Christ to about 1920, consisted of labor-intensive, essentially subsistence farming on small farms. This took two acres to feed one person. With industrial agriculture, from 1920 to 2010, tractors and combine harvesters, chemical fertilizers and seed science opened commercialization of farms. Gains in productivity achieved one acre feeding five people.

Digital agriculture brought by drones is part of the next stage in industrialization of agriculture. It involves exploiting data from many sources — sensors on farm equipment and plants, satellite images and weather tracking. The use of water and fertilizer is measured and monitored. Growing can be monitored on a plant-by-plant basis.

Plant factories are being implemented worldwide that use 97% less water than an outdoor growing environment. Drones are anticipated to be used in those environments indoors.

The data-rich approach to decision making represented a sharp break with tradition. It is a totally different world than walking out on the farmland, kicking the dirt and making a decision based on intuition.

Transparency is a significant aspect of sensor use in farming logistics. Consumers care that their food is cared for in the proper manner: end to end.

According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, “Transparency is one of the benefits of IoT that drones bring to digital farming. The benefits of digital farming are higher productivity and more efficient use of land, water and fertilizer. Transparency in farming is being asked for by consumers. Consumers want to know where their food came from, how much water and chemicals were used, and when and how the food was harvested. They want to know about consistent refrigeration during transport.”

Use of drones represents a key milestone in provision of value to every industry. Customized cameras are used to take photos and videos with stunning representations. Digital controls will further automate flying, making ease of use and flight stability a reality. New materials and new designs are bringing that transformation forward. By furthering innovation, continued growth is assured.”

The worldwide market for agricultural drones is $494 million anticipated to reach $3.69 billion by 2022.

The complete report provides a comprehensive analysis of drones in different categories, illustrating the diversity of uses for remote flying devices in farming. Analytics makes the images more cogent to farmers, letting them anticipate problems that only become visible to human farmers days or weeks after the drone images detect issues.

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Contents

AGRICULTURAL DRONE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Agricultural Drone Market Driving Forces
  Agricultural Drones For Crop Surveillance
Drone Agricultural Inspection and Planting Aerial Systems Market Shares
Agricultural Drone Market Forecasts

1. AGRICULTURAL DRONES: MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS

1.1 Venture Investment In Agricultural Drones
  1.1.1 Agricultural Industrialization
  1.1.2 Transparency Benefits Of IoT and Digital Farming
1.2 Smart Drones: Commercial Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Description
1.3 Drone Enhanced Capability and Payloads
1.4 Nano Drones Applications
  1.4.1 Drone Miniaturization
1.5 Follow Me Drones
  1.5.1 US FAA Commercial Drone Permits
1.6 Unmanned Aerial Systems Payloads
  1.6.1 Composites Key to Utility
  1.6.2 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Agriculture Mapping
1.7 Californian Wine Industry Uses Drones to Refine Sampling of the Vineyard51
1.8 Agri-Informatics
  1.8.1 Drones Geo-Tag Images And Wirelessly Transmit
  1.8.2 Drones Used in Japan for Agriculture

2. AGRICULTURAL DRONE MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS

2.1 Agricultural Drone Market Driving Forces
  2.1.1 Agricultural Drones For Crop Surveillance
2.2 Drone Agricultural Inspection and Planting Aerial Systems Market Shares
  2.2.1 Agriculture Commercial Drone Market Vertical Growth:
  2.2.2 Yamaha RMAX
  2.2.3 DJI Agricultural Spraying Drone
  2.2.4 Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet
  2.2.5 Draganfly Draganflyer X4-P
  2.2.6 AscTec Firefly
  2.2.7 3D Robotics
  2.2.8 AgEagle Aerial Systems Agricultural Crop Map Functions
2.3 Agricultural Drone Market Forecasts
  2.3.1 Agricultural Drone Unit Analysis and Unit Forecasts
  2.3.2 Agricultural Drone Unit Shipments
  2.3.1 Agriculture Surveying Via Drones
  2.3.2 Drone Agricultural Surveying
  2.3.3 Agricultural Crop Dusting Drones
  2.3.4 Agricultural Drone Trends
  2.3.5 Agricultural Drones Provide Farmers With Detailed Views
2.4 Drone Shipments
  2.4.1 Drone Market Shares and Sector Forecasts
  2.4.2 Drone Market Forecasts
2.5 Agricultural Drone Prices
2.6 Drone Systems by Application
2.7 Agricultural Drone Regional Market Analysis
  2.7.1 Smart Drone Commercial (UAV) Industry Regional Summary
  2.7.2 U.S Accounts for 73 Percent of The Worldwide Research, Development, Test, And Evaluation (RDT&E) Spending On Smart Drone Technology
  2.7.3 U.S. State Department Drone Export Guidelines
  2.7.4 Canada
  2.7.5 Europe
  2.7.6 UK Trade in Drones
  2.7.7 Drones for the Netherlands
  2.7.8 Japan
  2.7.9 Sony Drone Services
  2.7.10 Japanese Drone Works Inside the Nuclear Power Plant
  2.7.11 China
  2.7.12 Chinese Smog-Fighting Drones That Spray Chemicals To Capture Air Pollution
  2.7.13 China Desires Exports, Steps Up Research In Drones
  2.7.14 Chinese Commercial Drones
  2.7.15 Singapore
  2.7.16 Africa
  2.7.17 East Africa
  2.7.18 Expansion of US Drone Base in Africa
  2.7.19 Ethiopia
  2.7.20 Brazil
  2.7.21 Morocco
  2.7.22 India
  2.7.23 Australian Research on Agricultural Drones

3. AGRICULTURAL DRONE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

3.1 Yamaha Crop Dusting Drones
  3.1.1 Yahama
  3.1.2 Yamaha RMAX
  3.1.3 Yamaha Unmanned Helicopters For Industrial And Research Applications
  3.1.4 Yamaha Rmax Helicopter Agricultural Drone For Crop Spraying
3.2 AeroVironment
  3.2.1 AeroVironment: RQ-11B Raven for Agriculture
  3.2.2 AeroVironment: RQ-11B Raven
  3.2.3 AeroVironment Raven Specifications
  3.2.4 AeroVironment RQ-20A Puma AE
  3.2.5 AeroVironement Ground Control System
  3.2.6 BP and AeroVironment FAA-Approved, Commercial Drone Operations Presage Agricultural Applications
  3.2.7 AeroVironment Integrated LiDAR Sensor Payload
  3.2.8 AeroVironment AV’s Family of Small UAS
3.3 DJI Inspire 1
  3.3.1 DJI Technology Chinese Crop Spraying Drone
  3.3.2 DJI Technology Turning to the Rural Market
  3.3.3 DJI Phantom
  3.3.4 DJI Ronin
3.4 3D Robotics
  3.4.1 3D Robotics Launches Line of Mapping Drones
  3.4.2 3D Robotics
3.5 FT Sistemas
  3.5.1 FT Sistemas Drone Applications
3.6 AgEagle
  3.6.1 AgEagle Aerial Systems
3.7 Raven Industries
  3.7.1 Raven and AgEagle Partner on UAS Solutions for Agriculture
3.8 HoneyComb AgDrones
3.9 Parrot/SenseFly
3.10 Precision Drones
3.11 PrecisionHawk Lancaster Drone Monitors Livestock Temperature To Check For Fever

4. AGRICULTURAL DRONE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

4.1 Agricultural Research and Technology
4.2 Regulations in the Agricultural Drone Industry
  4.2.1 Drone Regulation Exemptions
  4.2.2 FAA Plans Final Regulation on Commercial Drone Use by Mid-2016
  4.2.3 FAA Approved Drone Projects
4.3 Agricultural Drone Sensors & Capabilities

5. AGRICULTURAL COMPANY PROFILES

5.1 3D Robotics
  5.1.1 3D Robotics Acquisition of Sifteo
5.2 AeroVironment
  5.2.1 AeroVironment Revenue 2015
5.3 AgEagle
5.4 Airogisitic
5.5 Airware
  5.5.1 Airware Components of its Aerial Information Platform
  5.5.2 Airware’s AIP Business Model
  5.5.3 Airware Investment from Intel Capital
5.6 Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
5.7 China Aerospace CASC Space Technology
  5.7.1 China Aerospace CASC Revenue
5.8 Deveron Resources Ltd
  5.8.1 Eagle Scout Drone Imaging
5.9 DJI
  5.9.1 DJI Agricultural Spraying Drone
  5.9.2 DJI Inspire 1
  5.9.3 DJI Technology Chinese Crop Spraying Drone
5.10 FT Sistemas
5.11 Honeycomb
5.12 HUVRData, LLC
5.13 Parrot/Sensefly
  5.13.1 Parrot/Sensefly
  5.13.2 Parrot/senseFly
  5.13.3 Parrot Group/senseFly
  5.13.4 Parrot Group senseFly CTI Certified
  5.13.5 Parrot Drone First Quarter Sales For 2015 Up 356 Percent
5.14 Precision Drone
5.15 Raven Industries
5.16 Skycatch
5.17 Tekever Drones To Detect Vine Disease
  5.17.1 TEKEVER Group drone Project In The Wine-Growing Region Of Minho (North of Portugal)
  5.17.2 TEKEVER
5.18 Topcon Positioning Group
5.19 Yahama
  5.19.1 Yamaha Crop Dusting Drones
5.20 Yuneec

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Table ES-1 Agricultural Drone Market Driving Forces
Table ES-2 Agricultural Drone Market Factors
Table ES-3 Agricultural Drone Geo-Referenced Image Advantages
Table ES-4 Benefits of Agricultural Drones
Figure ES-5 Commercial Drones Took to the Skies First for the Agricultural Industry
Figure ES-6 Agricultural Drone Market Shares, Dollars, 2015
Figure ES-7 Smart Commercial Drone Agriculture Aerial Systems Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 1-1 Ability Of Commercial Drones To Perform Delivery Function in Agriculture
Table 1-2 Nano Drones Applications
Figure 1-3 DJI Share of FAA Drone Operations Exceptions
Table 1-4 Drones Used in Japan for Agriculture Access Benefits
Table 1-5 Drone Farming Plot Infrastructure Access Barriers
Table 2-1 Agricultural Drone Market Driving Forces
Table 2-2 Agricultural Drone Market Factors
Table 2-3 Agricultural Drone Geo-Referenced Image Advantages
Table 2-4 Benefits of Agricultural Drones
Figure 2-5 Commercial Drones Took to the Skies First for the Agricultural Industry
Figure 2-6 Agricultural Drone Market Shares, Dollars, 2015
Table 2-7 Agricultural Inspection and Planting Drone Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2015
Table 2-8 Drone Uses in Agriculture
Figure 2-9 Yamaha Helicopter Drone Spraying
Figure 2-10 Yamaha RMAX Helicopter Drones
Figure 2-11 DJI Agricultural Spraying Drone
Figure 2-12 Draganfly Draganflyer X4-P
Figure 2-13 AscTec Firefly
Table 2-14 Technical Data – AscTec Firefly
Table 2-15 AgEagle Aerial Systems Agricultural Crop Map Functions
Figure 2-16 Smart Commercial Drone Agriculture Aerial Systems Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 2-17 Agricultural Drone Markets Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 2-18 Agricultural Inspection and Planting Smart Drone Aerial Systems (UAS) Market Shares, Units, Worldwide, 2015
Figure 2-19 Agricultural Drone Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 2-20 Small and Mid-Size Agricultural Drone Systems, Dollars and Units, Worldwide, 2015-2021
Figure 2-21 Agriculture Surveying Via Drones
Table 2-23 Drone Systems Market Share Units, 2015
Figure 2-24 Drone Aerial Systems Market Forecasts, Units, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Figure 2-25 DJI Overcomes Technological Barriers to Drone Manufacture
Figure 2-26 Agriculture, Business, Environmental and Entertainment Use of Drones
Figure 2-27 Drone Systems Market Shares, 2015
Figure 2-28 Drone Aerial Systems Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 2-29 Drone Aerial Systems by Sector, Military, Agriculture, Oil and Gas, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, Disaster Response, Package Delivery, Photography, Videography, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016-2022
Table 2-30 Drone Systems by Application, Military, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and Border Patrol, Agricultural, Package Delivery, Consumer Photo Drones, Utility Infrastructure Inspection, and Mapping, Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2015
Figure 2-31 Drone Aerial Systems (UAS) Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2015
Table 2-32 Drone Aerial Systems (UAS) Regional Market Segments, 2015
Figure 2-33 Japanese Hexacopter Smart Commercial Drone
Figure 2-34 Sony Commercial Drone
Figure 2-35 Drone Model Envisaged For Work Inside The Reactor Buildings At The Crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant
Figure 2-36 Chinese Vendors Seeks to Sell Drones to China
Figure 2-37 Expansion of US Drone Base in Africa
Figure 2-38 Australian Research on Agricultural Drones
Figure 3-2 UC Davis Using Yahama Helicopter Drones For Crop Dusting
Figure 3-3 Yamaha Crop Dusting Initiatives
Figure 3-4 Yamaha Helicopter Drone Spraying
Figure 3-5 Yamaha RMAX Helicopter Drones
Figure 3-6 Yamaha Agricultural Spraying
Figure 3-7 Yamaha Rmax Drone
Figure 3-8 Yamaha Unmanned Helicopters For Industrial And Research Applications
Table 3-9 Yamaha Drone Unmanned Helicopters Agricultural Applications
Figure 3-10 Yamaha R-Max Agricultural Robot Spraying
Figure 3-11 Yamaha Rmax Spraying
Figure 3-12 AeroVironment Raven Used for Agriculture
Figure 3-13 AeroVironment Agricultural Inspection
Figure 3-14 AeroVironment Raven Features
Figure 3-15 AeroVironment Raven Specifications
Figure 3-16 AeroVironment Raven Flight
Figure 3-17 AeroVironment Agricultural Drone Applications
Figure 3-18 AeroVironement RQ-20A Puma AE
Figure 3-19 AeroVironement Ground Control System
Figure 3-20 BP and AeroVironment Drone for Comprehensive GIS Services
Table 3-21 AeroVironment BP Services
Table 3-22 AeroVironement Inspection of Critical Infrastructure
Figure 3-23 AeroVironment Raven
Figure 3-24 DJI Inspire 1
Figure 3-25 DJI Crop Spraying Agricultural Drone
Table 3-26 DJI Agras Agricultural Drone Features
Table 3-27 DJI Agras Agricultural Drone Functions
Figure 3-28 DJI Technology Farm Drone Can Spray Pesticides Over Up To 4hectares Of Land Every Hour－ 40 Times More Efficient Than Manual Spraying
Figure 3-29 DJI Phantom
Figure 3-30 DJI Phantom Series
Figure 3-31 DJI Ronin
Table 3-32 DJI Agras MG-1 Worldwide Large Farm Challenges
Table 3-33 DJI Agras MG-1 Drone Challenges
Figure 3-34 3D Robotics
Figure 3-36 3D Robotics Vineyard Inspection
Figure 3-38 FT Sistemas Drone Designs
Figure 3-39 FT Sistemas Naval Drone Designs
Figure 3-40 FT Sistemas RGB Drone Perspectives
Figure 3-41 FT Sistemas Drone Applications
Figure 3-42 FT Sistemas Brazilian Military Drones
Table 3-43 Brazilian Land Force FT100 Mission Targets
Figure 3-44 AgEagle
Table 3-45 AgEagle Aerial Systems Agricultural Crop Map Functions
Figure 3-46 AgEagle Agricultural Drone
Figure 3-47 HoneyComb AgDrone
Figure 3-48 HoneyComb AgDrone System Controller
Figure 3-49 HoneyComb AgDrone Flying
Table 3-50 Parrot Sensefly eXom Drone Functions
Figure 3-51 Parrot Sensefly Agricultural Drone
Figure 3-52 Precision Drone on Farm
Figure 3-53 Precision Drone For Agriculture
Figure 3-54 Precision Drones Mapping View of Cornfield
Figure 3-55 PrecisionHawk Lancaster Drone Monitors Livestock
Figure 4-1 US FAA Drone Exceptions by Use Case
Table 4-2 AeroVironment Integration Of Sensors And Capabilities For Delivering Actionable Intelligence
Figure 5-1 AgEagle NIR Camera Proprietary Index Filter
Figure 5-2 AgEagle Transport Van
Figure 5-3 AgEagle Dependable Component Of A Precision Agriculture Program
Figure 5-4 Airogistic Drones
Table 5-5 Eagle Scout Drone State-Of-The-Art Camera, Sensor And Software Technology Applications
Figure 5-6 DJI Phantom
Figure 5-7 DJI Agricultural Spraying Drone
Figure 5-8 DJI Inspire 1
Figure 5-9 DJI Crop Spraying Agricultural Drone
Table 5-10 DJI Agras Agricultural Drone Features
Table 5-11 HoneyComb AgDrones Mission
Table 5-12 HUVD Drone Services Industries Targeted
Figure 5-13 Parrot Consumer Drone
Figure 5-14 Tekevervines
Figure 5-15 UC Davis Using Yahama Helicopter Drones For Crop Dusting
Figure 5-16 Yamaha Crop Dusting Initiatives
Figure 5-18 Yuneec Drone
Table 5-19 Yuneec Hobby RC Fixed Wing Aircraft