Drone-Assisted Agriculture
The Aloha Aina Drone Company provides advanced, practical, and responsible drone-based solutions for common agricultural needs in Hawaiʻi.
Our agricultural focused drone systems can carry 5 gallons or 50 lbs of fertilizer, pesticides, and seeds per flight, treating over 100 acres in a single day.
We are experienced with using remote sensing drone systems to generate data-rich, high-resolution maps of fields and landscapes, accurately measuring plant health dynamics with multispectral sensors, 3D modeling, and centimeter accurate GPS systems.
Why You Should Work With Us
We are one of the few business in Hawaiʻi to be fully licensed and certified to apply commercial products from the air with drone systems by both the Federal Aviation Authority and the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.
Compared to traditional ground-based application methods, our state of the art, computer-assisted drone platforms can reduce chemical consumption, exposure, and waste, better ensuring our local agricultural community’s income and well-being.
Our drones have advanced data-collection and analytic capacities to allow farmers and their stakeholders to better understand the health of their crops, and exactly where and how much product is systematically applied across their fields and orchards.
Why We Want To Work With You
Because the majority of our company were raised working on farms, we have a deep respect for the agricultural community and an earnest desire to help them turn their hard work and time into more productive, healthy, and economical viable harvests for both the farmer and the communities they serve.
The Aloha ʻĀina Drone Company wants to provide advanced, practical, and responsible agricultural solutions that will better all Hawaiʻi by (1) enhancing crop health, productivity, and sustainability, (2) improving livelihoods and well-being, and (3) minimizing environmental impacts.
Example of Services
—Crop, Weed, and Pest Spraying—
—Granular and Foliar Fertilizing—
—Large Scale Seeding—
—Soil Amendments—
—Plant Health Analyses—
—Crop Monitoring—
—Efficacy Trials—
FAQs
Q: How Does Drone Spraying Work?
A: Our drone systems are specifically designed to apply commercial agricultural products over crops. They can be fitted with large volume tanks that can hold up to 5 gallons of liquid or granular products like foliar nutrients, fertilizers, seeds, fungicides, herbicides, and pesticides, and apply these evenly via spray nozzles or mechanical spreading systems. Our drone systems will fly over your fields, crops, orchards, etc., and deliver pre-programmed amounts of product through custom developed flight plans and application routes.
Q: Who is Allowed to Conduct Aerial Applications?
A: Applying commercial product from the air requires specific certifications from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and can require additional certifications from the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture. We are one of the very few companies in the State of Hawaiʻi to hold all necessary certification, licenses, etc, to conduct legal, authorized, drone-based aerial applications.
Q: How Effective is Drone-Based Aerial Application?
A: Drone-based aerial applications can be significantly more effective and cost-efficient than both ground or fixed-wing application methods. Drone systems can accurately and evenly target both individual plants and crop-fields with all common agricultural products, and treat hilly, irregular, and uneven fields that ground personal airplanes or cannot cover safely. Downdraft from rotors reduces drift, computer systems better utilize and track product deployment, and avoiding the need for heavy machinery reduces costs, infrastructure requirements, and soil compaction—which is thought to decrease yields by as much as 50%!
Q: How Much Land Can Drone-Based Aerial Application Cover?
A: Depending on the crop, product, and landscape type, agriculture drones can likely cover up from 5 to 25 acres per hour.
Q: How Much Does Drone-Based Aerial Application Cost?
A: Given the intrinsic efficiencies built into drone-based aerial applications, we believe can likely save the average farmer up to 25% in costs (compared to their traditional application pricing), depending on scale, service needs, and other variables. Further, drones can also replace manual ground-based spraying, saving on payroll, employment taxes, insurance, and health-related incidents. Moreover, it can save hundreds of thousands of dollars if replacing a mechanical ground rig like a tractor spraying system.