The Use of Drones in Agrıcultural Production

Özet

The drones called mainly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been commonly used recently in agricultural production in allpart of the world because of reducing costs for the hardware and the software technology for their production. Moreover, UAV ’sgave opportunities such as reaching much faster and efficient in emergency situations, allowing access to places where humanscan’t reach etc. Therefore, UAVs are used in many parts of our life not only for agriculture but also in traffic surveillance, militaryoperations, disaster management, border-patrolling, aerial image georeferencing, courier services, firefighting as well asmonitoring of wildlife, nature, sky life etc. In the agriculture, the UAV’s are used mostly for monitoring the crop productio n usingspectral imaging on each period of time in order to identify the problems on the field such as water shortage and diseases, trackinganimals, using cameras and herding them with creating sounds produced by the UAV’s, spraying to the field with pesticide,fungicide and water by equipping spraying kit on a UAV, generating the strong winds by the propellers of the UAV increasingpollination in the hybrid plant production as well as separating the small harmful bugs from the plants etc. The UAV’s contributea lot more to the agricultural sector, if the right implementations and researches are done. However, using new implementedlightweight materials to increase the endurance of the UAV, developing new type of lenses and sensors which can identify othe rdiseases on plants or animals which can’t be seen by the current equipment and equipping a granule spreader on a UAV so that itcan distribute the seeds on the field much faster than a tractor