Precidrone

h1. Agridrone LAAS wiki

h2. Links to commercial companies

h3. Vision sensors

* The "MicaSense":http://www.micasense.com/ penta-spectral camera

* The "AirInov":http://www.airinov.fr/en/ company

* The "Agribotics":http://agribotix.com/image-processing-services/ company

* The "Sensilize":http://sensilize.com/ company

* The "Hi-Phen":http://www.hiphen-plant.com/ company (a spin-off of INRA and Arvalis)

* "Sentera":https://sentera.com/sensors/

* Hyperspectral cameras "Resonon":https://www.resonon.com/index.html

h3. Lidars

* The "Yellowscan":http://yellowscan.lavionjaune.com/ Lidar developed by "L'avion Jaune":http://lavionjaune.com/index_en.html (the page of "Tristan Alloui":http://pagesperso.lavionjaune.com/allouis/ who works in this company contains interesting references for aiborne Lidars data processing)

h3. Misc companies

* "Skeyelabs":http://www.skeyelabs.fr/

* "Pix4D":https://www.pix4d.com/ now consider agriculture robotics. See for example "this use case":http://blog.pix4d.com/post/140399979376/keeping-the-k-in-carrots-drone-technology-to (note the tiles seem to be geo-referenced)

* "DataMapper:"https://datamapper.com/

h3. Agriculture drones companies

* The "AirInov":http://www.airinov.fr/ company again (see "the way they organize their business":http://www.airinov.fr/static/dossier_argridrone_2015.pdf in 2015)

* "PrecisionHawk":http://www.precisionhawk.com/

h3. Agriculture rover companies

* Our friends "Naïo":/http://naio-technologies.com/

* "Ecorobotix":http://www.ecorobotix.com/, a startup form EPFL

* The "Lettuce bot":http://smartmachines.bluerivert.com/ from the "Blue Rivert company":http://www.bluerivert.com/

h2. Links to projects

* "H2O absorbtion measure with SWIR cameras":https://www.alliedvision.com/en/news/detail/news/the-future-of-agriculture-unfolds-as-researchers-analyze-h2o-absorption-via-swir.html

* Project "ASETA":http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/74667.htm in Denmark

* The FP7 project "RHEA":http://www.rhea-project.eu/ (mostly devoted to ground robots, but work on airborne sensing have been performed)

* A short presentation of the FUI "Détection Automatique des MAladies de la Vigne":http://www.pole-pegase.com/documents/Actualites/5_-_2_-_NOVADEM_projetDAMAV_Avignon_4_nov_2014.pdf by the company "Novadem":http://www.novadem.com/index-en.html (hyperspectral imaging will be considered in a "PhD at AgroSup Dijon":http://www.gdr-isis.fr/news/2791/121/Dispositif-multispectral-haute-resolution-pour-la-detection-de-foyers-infectieux-en-vigne-par-drone.html

h2. Links to labs 

* "Aggiear":http://aggieair.usu.edu/ at the Utah State University (esp. the "publications page":http://aggieair.usu.edu/biblio)

h2. Links to on-line publications

* "Weed Mapping in Early-Season Maize Fields Using Object-Based Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images":http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077151

* The proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and associated High-technologies and Equipment for agriculture:

** "2012 edition":http://www.rhea-project.eu/Workshops/Conferences/%20Proceedings_RHEA_2012.pdf

** "2014 edition":http://www.rhea-project.eu/Workshops/Conferences/Proceedings_RHEA_2014.pdf

h2. Misc Links

* The "blog":http://modernfarmer.com/ from the american Modern Farmer magazine (various news re. commercial robotics in agriculture can be found there)