Ua noiʻi ʻekolu mau poʻe ʻelemakule ʻo Virginia Tech pehea e hiki ai i nā drones ke ʻike i ka makū o ka lepo no kahi papahana papa ma ke kula o ke kula o nā mea kanu a me ka ʻepekema ʻepekema ʻo Professor Kang Xia's Monitoring and Analysis of the Environment course.
ʻO Matt Darrah, Grady Hesse, a me Ryan Humphry o ka Kula o na mea kanu a me ke kaiapuni Ua hoʻolauna ʻia i ka mahiʻai pololei ma ke ʻano he hana hoʻokele kahi e hoʻouna ʻia ai nā mea noiʻi autonomous e hōʻiliʻili i nā ʻāpana ʻāina a me ka lepo e ʻike mau i nā wahi e pono ai nā meaʻai hou.
"Ua ʻike mākou aia nā hana i hana ʻia i ka wā ma mua me nā drones e nānā i nā ʻokoʻa o nā mea kanu, akā ʻaʻole mākou i ʻike i kekahi mea e pili ana i ka wānana ʻana i nā pae o ka lepo a me nā mea i loko o ka lepo," wahi a Hesse, no Berryville, Virginia, he haumāna puka ʻepekema kūlohelohe. .
Ua noʻonoʻo lākou inā hiki ke hana hou ʻia me kahi drone.
"He mea hiki ke hoʻomaka i ka honua," wahi a Darrah, no Las Vegas, Nevada, a me kahi puka ʻepekema ʻepekema. "Ma luna aʻe o ka ʻoluʻolu o ka lele ʻana i nā drones, manaʻo mākou hiki iā mākou ke komo i ka noiʻi hoʻololi hou e like me nā haumāna haʻahaʻa."
Ua noiʻi ka haʻawina i ka ʻikepili Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) a me Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), ʻelua mau kikoʻī kikoʻī no ka lepo, i hōʻiliʻili ʻia mai nā drones e hoʻoholo ai i ka pae o ka wai o ka lepo ʻole.
Ua hoʻopili ʻia kēia papahana hoʻokolohua i nā ʻano aʻoaʻo like ʻole i ka Kulanui o nā mahiʻai a me nā ʻepekema ola. ʻO ke kumu i komo pū me ka papahana haumāna ʻo Song Li, he kumu aʻoaʻo ma ke Kula ʻo Plant a me Environmental Sciences i loea i nā genomics kiʻekiʻe a me nā ʻenehana sensor, ʻo Sanaz Shafian, he kumu aʻoaʻo kōkua ma ke Kula ʻo Plant and Environmental Science, Shawn Jadrnicek, ka luna mahiʻai o Virginia Tech's Homefield Farm, a me Xia. ʻO Li, Shafian, a me Xia nā kumu pili me ka Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture.
ʻO ka Homefield Farm, kahi hui ma waena o nā lawelawe ʻai a me ke Koleke o ka Mahiai a me ka ʻEpekema Ola a ʻo ia wale nō ka hana organik i hōʻoia ʻia e ke kulanui ma Virginia, kahi kahua o ka noiʻi a nā haumāna. Aia ka mahiʻai ʻeono ʻeka a nā haumāna i ʻewalu mau mile ma ke komohana o ka pā kula ʻo Blacksburg a hāʻawi ʻia ma kahi o 50,000 paona hua hou i nā hale ʻai a me ke kahua mahiʻai a Homefield ma ka pā kula. ʻO ka mahiʻai kahi ʻāpana o Virginia Tech's Hana Mahiai Kolepa, e komo pū ana me Kentland Farm.
"Me ke kōkua a pau o nā kumu a me nā limahana i pili, ua lilo kēia i papahana noiʻi koʻikoʻi no mākou," wahi a Darrah.
Ua hoʻoholo nā haumāna he nui ka hana ma kēia ʻaoʻao, ʻo ia hoʻi ka hoʻomohala ʻana i nā ʻike kūpono no nā waiwai o ka lepo, me ka wai o ka lepo. Ua ʻike ka trio he mea ʻole ka pilina ma waena o kā lākou NDVI a me SAVI a ʻaʻole lawa ka ikaika no ka hoʻohana pono ʻana.
I ka pau ʻana o ke kau, ua hōʻike ka hui - me nā haumāna ʻē aʻe i ka papa - i kēia mau hopena a me nā ʻike ma o Zoom. Ua kūkākūkā ka hui i kā lākou mau kiʻi lewa, pehea lākou i hoʻoponopono ai i nā hopena, a me nā mea hou aku.
"ʻO kaʻu ʻāpana punahele o ka papahana ʻo ia ka manawa i ʻike ai mākou i kā mākou hopena," wahi a Humphry, no Yorktown, Virginia, he haumāna puka ʻepekema ʻepekema hoʻi. "Ua ʻike mākou he pololei paha mākou i kekahi mau ʻaoʻao a hewa ʻole i kekahi. Akā manaʻo wau he mea kupaianaha wale nō ke ʻike i nā mea i hiki iā mākou ke hoʻokō i hoʻokahi kau i ka wā maʻi maʻi.
- ʻO Max Esterhuizen, Virginia Tech University
Hoʻomākaukau ʻo Matt Darrah, Grady Hesse, a me Ryan Humphry e lele i kahi drone ma Homefield Farm e ana i ka makū o ka lepo. Kiʻi: Na Darrah, Hesse a me Humphry