₦airaland Forum

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As you mentioned, they are a lot more affordable than drones. However, they still suffer from the common satellite problems; cloud cover.

When you consider the fact that many of our farming activities are during the rainy season when there's thick cover cloud cover then you see that drones have an advantage over satellite images.

Exactly, you are right. But as you said, half bread is better than none.
Moreover, there are satellite services that allow cloud adjustment up to 0%, the only major con is that it wont be recent for that particular day i.e If you need to aquire a farm's image for today 17th May, the latest available at 0% cloud cover may be for 2 days ago. That of today may not be available until about 2 - 3 days more.

Nonetheless, half loaf, as they say, is better than none. It's better for us to use satellite images than nothing. Hopefully, this will whet our people's appetite for precision farming and give the Nigerian remote sensing experts ample time to understand our local system.

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Unfortunately, many of our farms aren’t worth even a million naira. So how can they afford to pay a GIS specialist a few millions of naira in order to save tens and hundreds of millions.

Your submission above is very true but quite unfortunate. Someone like me have been looking for various ways to introduce precision into our agriculture sector, but comments from those you pitch such ideas to is discouraging. They are not to be blamed though, your submission summarizes it all.

Is it the cost of flying drones or the image processing from the required spectral index that comes after; Its damn expensive to be afforded by small unit farming we practice here.

Nevertheless, There are still affordable and efficient ways that small unit farmers can be accomodated ( such as aquiring high resolution satellite imageries in lieu of drone images) for a start pending when majority will appreciate the great benefits in precision agriculture

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