Drone Agricultural & Crop Health Surveys.
Compare quotes from specialist UK drone operators for calibrated NDVI and NDRE crop-health maps, VRA prescriptions for spreaders and sprayers, yield-anomaly overlays, and BPS/SFI compliance imagery.
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Peter Leslie · Founder & GVC Drone Pilot
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Drone agricultural survey specialisms
Multispectral outputs tuned to the decisions you actually make in-cab, in-office and at the gate.
NDVI & NDRE crop maps
Calibrated multispectral indices highlighting crop-health variability across every field.
Get NDVI survey quotesVRA prescription maps
Shapefile outputs ready to load straight into your spreader or sprayer terminal.
Get VRA map quotesYield anomaly detection
Pinpoint under-performing zones, drainage issues and compaction before yield drops.
Request an anomaly surveyWalking the field misses half the story.
Arable farmers, agronomists, and estate managers make high-value input decisions with eyes alone. A calibrated multispectral flight sees stress, disease, and yield anomaly weeks before the agronomist can.
Stress Spotted Too Late
By the time nutrient, water, or disease stress is visible to the naked eye in crop, yield is already being lost. NDRE in particular picks up subsurface stress 10–14 days earlier than the human walk-through.
Fertiliser Overspend
Blanket fertiliser applications waste money on fields that don't need it and miss zones that do. A VRA prescription from a calibrated multispectral map typically repays a flight in a single application.
Yield Anomalies Hidden Until Harvest
Combine yield maps arrive too late to intervene. In-season drone imagery catches drainage faults, compaction, and cultivar failures while there's still time to act or, at minimum, document the cause for insurance.
A drone with a camera is not multispectral.
By Peter Leslie, Founder & GVC Drone Pilot
Connect on LinkedInUseful crop-health data comes from calibrated radiometry — dedicated multispectral sensors with incident-light measurement and reflectance calibration targets, not a picture tinted green in software.
Every agricultural survey on this network is flown by drone operators running genuine multispectral payloads (MicaSense RedEdge-P, Altum-PT, or DJI Mavic 3M) with documented calibration and reflectance panels. The NDVI map you get out is the one your agronomist can trust.
The result is a season-long decision-support dataset: VRA shapefiles your RTK spreader can consume, anomaly overlays for your agronomist, and a dated record for scheme compliance.
Calibrated Multispectral
PDRA01 & £5M Public Liability
Outputs your agronomist and spreader can both use.
Our network operators deliver calibrated, VRA-ready outputs for precision agriculture and scheme compliance.
NDVI & NDRE Maps
Calibrated vegetation indices across every field, delivered as GeoTIFF or GeoPackage for your farm software. NDVI for canopy vigour, NDRE for subsurface nitrogen stress — timed to the critical growth stages of your rotation.
VRA Prescription Shapefiles
Zoned prescriptions output as shapefile or ISO-XML — ready for RTK-enabled spreaders, sprayers, and drills from Amazone, Kuhn, Trimble, and John Deere. Fertiliser, PGR, and pesticide application, targeted where the crop actually needs it.
Anomaly & Compliance Reports
Annotated anomaly overlays for drainage, compaction, pest, and disease incidents, plus high-resolution orthomosaics timestamped to support BPS, SFI, and Countryside Stewardship inspection records.
Book your agri survey in 3 steps.
Submit one brief. We aim to review it within one working day, then introduce relevant independent specialists who can assess the project.
Describe the Farm
Tell us the crop, the growth stage, the area, and what output (NDVI, VRA, compliance) you need. Takes under two minutes.
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We review the brief against relevant verified profiles and current availability. If listed supply is limited, we will say so and source availability manually. Any pilot introduced must confirm equipment, permissions, timing and deliverables for the actual job.
Fly & Report
Your drone pilot flies the calibration panels and the fields, processes the multispectral data, and delivers NDVI / NDRE maps plus VRA-ready prescriptions.
Agricultural Survey FAQ
Technical questions on multispectral sensors, VRA, and flight timing.
Which multispectral cameras are used?
Can prescriptions be made RTK-GPS compatible for VRA spreaders?
How often should fields be flown per season?
What's the difference between NDVI and NDRE?
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