Hey everyone, just had a scenario and a couple ideas and wondered how plausible/practical they were. My equipment in this scenario would be a DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral with NTRIP RTK. (This is very much in an agricultural environment)
Read the scenario first and think of how you would solve this problem, then feel free to comment on my ideas and think about how it would work… Thanks for any and all input,
You’re an agricultural custom pesticide application operator who works with many acres of corn and soybeans, applying in the mid summer. You have gps guidance on your equipment and it would be very helpful if you had GPS guidance lines and boundaries before you got to the field. (The field will be flown beforehand anyway to pick out any objects or obstacles that you need to work around) You have a DJI mavic 3M with rtk correction from a local NTRIP caster. You want to find a way to make an aerial map several weeks before the application and be able to pick points on the map you generated and have precise* points to work with to create field boundaries and guidance lines. The lines can be generated with 2 coordinate points easily but boundaries require a shape file of the field outline.
Idea 1: fly over a farm to be applied that we have not dealt with yet and have no existing data (custom work and have no records of field boundary etc) and be able to pick accurate* points and generate a boundary shape file to upload to our John Deere ecosystem
Idea 2: the same process as before but be able to pick coordinates off of reference line (be it a fence post, corn row or other aerially visibly reference point and be able to generate a guidance line from those points (all that matters for this sake is that I can reasonably pick 2 points in a line and get accurate coordinates from them)
If you have any questions or need clarification don’t hesitate to ask please!
*= accurate within 1-4 inches would be great but let me know what the realities of this are as I’m just starting down this path