Can spray drone agriculture be used for orchard plant protection? Until today, neither the pilot nor the orchard operator can give a definite answer.

For pilots, although the price of fruit tree flying defense is higher per mu, most of the orchards are located in mountainous and hilly areas and the terrain is irregular, resulting in inefficient fruit tree flying defense, and the overall benefit is not as good as in plain areas.

The first criterion for orchard operators to evaluate fruit tree flying prevention is the effect. Since fruit trees are high-value crops, they will agree to fly prevention of fruit trees only if the effect meets the requirements. In their opinion, agricultural drones should fly directly over each fruit tree, spraying enough chemicals, accompanied by a strong wind field, to penetrate the tree canopy. Only with such precision, spray volume and penetration can the plant protection effect be guaranteed. Such demanding requirements are difficult to meet with previous technologies.

In addition to fancy effects, under the background of an aging population, orchard operators are also concerned about the efficiency, safety and intelligence of fruit tree flying prevention. Although the current efficiency of spraying drone agriculture fruit tree flight defense is more than 10 times that of manual work, such efficiency is still not enough for larger orchards.

In order to further meet the plant protection needs of orchards and tea gardens in complex terrain, EAVision has upgraded the 3D free route function with higher degrees of freedom and flexibility on the basis of the original 3D route. EAVision 2021 agricultural farmer drone spray have the advantages of large spraying volume and large wind field. With the function of three-dimensional free route, it can meet the requirements of fruit tree flying prevention accuracy, spraying volume, penetration, efficiency, intelligence and other requirements.

Compared with the 3D route function that was launched earlier, the 3D free route can further adapt to complex terrain and different planting densities. Even for curved strip-shaped plots, the flight defense operation can be easily completed. The operator can freely draw the operation route on the EAVision APP, and let the route pass through the center of the canopy, so as to truly achieve precise spraying, which can not only greatly improve the flight control effect, but also effectively reduce the waste of chemicals.

In addition to meeting the plant protection needs of orchards and tea gardens in complex terrain, the 3D free route can also carry out plant protection operations in terraced fields. Due to the small and scattered plots of farmers, plant protection in terraced fields not only tests the ability of agricultural drones to deal with complex terrain, but also tests the ability to plan routes. The three-dimensional free route provides farmers with a more flexible mode. As long as the route is planned on the mobile phone, agricultural drones can safely operate autonomously in complex environments.