Yaroslavl State Agricultural Academy has introduced the Nebosvod platform

2022: Introduction of a platform for unmanned air traffic

The digital platform for unmanned air traffic Firmament"," developed by the resident, Skolkovo Foundation will help agricultural to drones in the work. The transition to "smart" farming is already being carried out in. Yaroslavl region

Monitoring of farmland using an unmanned aircraft (BVS) allows farmers to control water supply, sowing of cultivated plants, soil diversity and the spread of harmful plants. Drones take images in the infrared and visual spectral range, which makes it possible to assess the state of agricultural plants. The technologies of the Nebosvod platform allow you to see what cannot be traced to the naked eye. The platform developer is Airscript, a company that brings together engineers and IT specialists to organize safe unmanned air traffic.

Drones find themselves in many areas of activity, including precision farming. However, in order to use the new tools effectively, an infrastructure is needed to ensure safe, operational, system work to obtain data from drones. Skolkovsky resident 'Aeroscript', in addition, also solves the problem of organizing unmanned air traffic in terms of flight coordination, said Ivan Kosenkov, senior project manager of the Skolkovo Foundation's advanced production technology cluster.

The digital platform not only automates flight coordination, but also provides a number of specialized convenient tools. In particular, it is possible to use KML/KMZ files to load flight mission parameters into the system and to display GIS layers with user fields. There are a number of elements on the map displaying the structure of the airspace that make matching more accurate and convenient. All this greatly facilitates the work of farmers.

{{quote 'author = added Sergey Shchukin, Head of the Department of Agronomy, Yaroslavl State Agricultural Academy, Ph.D. | An important feature of such monitoring is the absence of direct contact with the ground, which means a decrease in soil compaction and an increase in the effective area of ​ ​ crops and an increase in yield by 3-10%. Realities require the modernization of the agricultural sector and the transition to the so-called smart agriculture, where relevant TECont and decision-making based on artificial intelligence will be actively applied. And it is already clear that the task will be solved using robots and drones.}}

The project is already being implemented on the basis of Yaroslavskaya state the Agricultural Academy together with the company Agros-Expert and a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, the Aeroscript Research Center.

We already use the "Nebosvod" platform to assess the flight area, coordinate, obtain permission to perform the flight. "Nebosvod" automates these processes and allows us to effectively use the drone fleet, quickly gain access to airspace and rationally plan activities. noted Ivan Volkov, CEO of AGROS-Expert.