Is Precision Farming Possible without Drones?

Mehmet Emre YAZICI Independent Consultant, Aerospace Industry The concept of Precision Agriculture (or precision farming) has been around since the 1960s when the United States’ Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, introduced a system called “grid planting”. Grid planting is a planting pattern in which farms are divided into squares and plants are positioned in rows inside each square. This method…

High Costs Limits the Growth of the Drone Insurance Market

          Mehmet Emre YAZICI Independent Consultant, Aerospace Industry Insurance companies have embraced drones for aerial data collection, catastrophe response, research and development, underwriting, and claims resolution support as early as 2015. Today, in a $14 billion global drone services market, insurance-related services have a decent share of approximately $2.5 billion (~17%). [1] On the other hand,…