Four thousand eight hundred hectares under fourteen pivots, and a season that gives you one week to act on anything you find. Ground Reality flies the whole scheme every week at 1.8 cm detail, reads vigour as a measurement instead of a windscreen impression, and puts the canal, the crop and the machine that waters it on the same record.
Capture · Mission 32
The sheet above is a drawing of this. 14 capture waypoints, and every finding called as the aircraft reaches it — scroll sets the target, the mission keeps its own pace, and the page waits for it.
Sector · Agriculture
One dawn pass down Scheme 03: a centre pivot losing six hectares to a blocked span, a main canal at full supply with four offtakes set, eight stocked ponds, a mill taking grain — then the unit walks the levee and measures the bund that is quietly costing the block forty millimetres a day.
The agronomist covers what the ute can reach before lunch, which is the headlands and the blocks beside the road. The far corner of block F-06 gets looked at when somebody happens to be over that way, and by then the week that mattered is gone.
Missions fly the scheme to a standing weekly schedule — twenty-two sheets, three sorties, same lines every flight — so this week's map lands beside last week's without anybody deciding which blocks were worth the drive.
Crop stress is an argument between two people looking at the same paddock from different ends of it. By the time it is obvious from the cab, the difference between the good half and the bad half is already in the yield.
Every block is flown for RGB and near-infrared on the same pass and mapped at 1.8 cm detail, so a wedge, a strip or a corner reads as an area and a stage against the rest of the block — this week, while a set of the irrigation can still be changed.
The tail-end gate goes short every February and the reason is always somebody else's — silt, a slumped bank, an offtake left cracked open. A 2.4 m³/s channel does not owe you a grade you have never measured.
The canal is surfaced along its length as a terrain model: invert, bank and freeboard against design, with the silt volume between two surveys sitting on the same sheet as the fall it is killing. Desilting is quoted on a volume, not a hunch.
4,800 ha
Scheme on one record, block by block
14
Centre pivots with their arcs read off the same map
52×/yr
Captures — one a week, right through the season
The program runs on the season's clock — one flight a week, every week, because anything the map finds is only worth acting on for about a week. Nothing on this list waits for somebody to decide a block is worth the drive.
Weekly, 3 sorties, same lines every flight
The whole scheme is flown to a standing schedule — twenty-two sheets, armed at 06:40 and a map by 09:15 — so this week's map lands beside last week's, block for block, headland to far corner.
4,800 HA · CROP VIGOUR · 1.8CM DETAILEvery flight, over the fourteen pivots
Canopy temperature reads span by span under each circle. Pivot 07's dry wedge from 118° to 164° read as 6.2 ha of stress against 47.1 under the pivot — a seized gearbox on span 5, not a failing crop.
PIVOTS 14 · CANOPY ΔT 3.8KEach season, offtake to tail-end gate
The channel is surfaced along its length as a terrain model: invert, bank and freeboard against design, with the silt volume between two surveys sitting on the same sheet as the fall it is killing.
CANAL 2.4M³/S · FSL 61.20 · INVERT 58.40Continuous, three depths per probe
Soil moisture lands on the same record as the imagery above it, so a stressed wedge on the map is read against the water actually in the ground — and the water table sitting 2.4 m under the root zone.
PROBES S-14 S-22 · ROOT ZONE 0–600 · 62% FCNobody — that is the point. The mission flies the whole 4,800 ha to a standing weekly schedule, three sorties on the same lines every flight, fifty-two weeks a year. The far corner of F-06 gets the same look as the block beside the road.
WEEKLY · 3 SORTIES · 52×/YRThe weekly flight arms at 06:40 and the map is up by 09:15 — two hours and thirty-five minutes — with vigour by block and stage against the rest of the field, in time to change a set of the irrigation the same day.
ARMED 06:40 · MAP UP 09:15 · 2H35MA measurement: near-infrared and RGB on the same pass at 1.8 cm detail, mapped block by block against growth stage. A wedge, a strip or a corner reads as an area and a stage — not as an argument between two people at opposite ends of a paddock.
CROP VIGOUR · 1.8CM DETAIL · STAGE BY BLOCKA seized span-5 gearbox on pivot 07, sometime Sunday night. The dry wedge from 118° to 164° was on the 09:15 map, the pivot was turning again by 16:20, and the damage stayed at 6.2 ha instead of 47.1.
PIVOT 07 · 6.2 HA · TURNING 16:20The canal is surfaced end to end: invert against the 58.40 design, banks, freeboard at FSL 61.20, and the silt volume between two surveys sitting beside the fall it is killing. Desilting gets quoted on a measured volume, not a hunch.
CANAL 2.4M³/S · INVERT 58.40 · FSL 61.20Same lines every flight, so the maps difference cleanly: fifty-two captures a year stack block by block, and a drift in any field reads against its own history instead of somebody's memory of it.
SAME LINES · 52 CAPTURES · BLOCK BY BLOCKRead overnight on a scheme like this one: the weekly flight at 1.8 cm detail, the heat pass over fourteen pivots, the probe feed at three depths, and the canal's last two surfaces. Three of the 27 profiles wake up to it.
06:20 · SCHEME · 14 PIVOTS
SEQUENCE
Pivot 07 is turning again at 0.92 rev/day after the span-5 gearbox — the wedge cost 6.2 ha, not 47.1 — and today's flight arms at 06:40 to read it for recovery.
CITES: PIVOT 07 · SPAN 5 · FLIGHT 06:40
07:10 · SHEET 3 · 219 HA
VIGOUR
Pivot 2 is split on the rotation — soy at V6 on the west half, just emerged on the east — while F-06 holds V6 across the block. The stage map is current to 21 JUN, and the week to act on a difference is this one.
CITES: SHEET AG-03 · VIGOUR 1.8CM DETAIL · FIELD SCHEDULE
06:10 · CANAL · GATES G1–G4
FLOW
The channel carries 2.4 m³/s at FSL 61.20 and the tail-end gate draws 140 L/s. The silt volume between the last two surfaces sits beside the fall it is killing — desilting is a quote on a number this season.
CITES: CANAL SURFACE · GATES G1–G4 · INVERT 58.40
One calendar for every autonomous capture on the portfolio
MISSIONS ON A CYCLESurvey-grade 2D maps from any drone flight
1.8CM DETAIL · 214 HA/FLIGHTThe whole envelope inspected without a scaffold, defects marked on the elevation
Δ0.1°C · FACADE 2CM DETAILThe site in three dimensions, measurable by anyone who opens it
MESH 40M FACES · DEM 5CMFigures are a specimen record, drawn to the platform's own conventions.
Send us the scheme boundary — we will fly it once on standing lines and hand you vigour by block, stage against stage, with the canal on the same record.