Mundus Group, Inc. Subsidiary AirStar Goes Green With "Aggie", the Ag UAV Drone, and Hi Tech Agricultural Micro Monitoring for P
September 14 2010 - 8:00AM
Mundus Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MNDP) subsidiary AirStar goes Green
with "Aggie", the Ag UAV Drone, and Hi Tech Agricultural Micro
Monitoring for Precision Farming of the Future. Increased
Agricultural (Ag) crop production is linked to data collection and
precision response needs data collected routinely as means of
monitoring soil and vegetation health while keeping in a closer
touch with the individual characters of the soil and
topography. Precision farming involves both micro monitoring
and intervention where uneven displacement of nutrients
occurs. This methodology is relevant and made possible with
the robust performance and routine autonomous flight capabilities
of the AirStar Industrial Drones.
The AirStar Ag UAV operations for precision farming will provide
a greener, more ecologically cautious and smaller footprint with
more specific controls of farming practices with our natural
resources while protecting the land, the farmers and the eco
system. The 2010 Ag Drone is advanced from the first testing
at the University of Illinois in 2003 with new technology providing
a wider array of mission tasks including Wildfire: Pre-and Post
Event Monitoring & Assessment.
The new Ag Drone "Aggie" is also designed to provide both
real-time and delayed-time information to researchers for
predictive purposes of Vegetation condition indices, growth,
moisture, land cover and to disaster authorities to provide
post-event fire, storm and flood damage assessments. The Ag Drones
mission shall be to observe, measure, and document:
- Soil conditions
- Fuel loading and biomass tons / acres
- Climatology / trends of weather to supplement Weather System
Analysis
- Erosion
- Invasive and exotics presence or absence
Such observations help predict hazards, mitigate high-risk
environmental conditions, help implement post-disaster recovery
operations, assist scientific understanding of post-disaster
environmental recovery, and help plan for mitigation.
2003 University of Illinois
Agricultural Precision Farming Data Studies Use AirStar UAV
Drone
Mundus Group subsidiary, AirStar, and its proprietary,
Industrial Drone Works first tested its remote controlled
helicopter aerial VTOL UAV system in October 2003 with researchers
at the University of Illinois in a focused feasibility and data
collection study to help grow bigger and better crops and was able
to identify field variance and portions of fields that could be
infested with a particular weed, pest or have a nutrient missing
from the soil, according to the study by Lei Tian, an associate
professor of agricultural engineering.
That ability could allow researchers to create a "crop calendar"
of sorts by photographing a field at various times during the
growing season. "We want to pinpoint the critical timing. To
generate this kind of database, you need to have something that can
provide really high-resolution images to qualitatively identify the
problems," Tian said. "Using the small helicopter to find the
best time and place to apply fertilizer or other chemicals makes
sense because it can do so quickly and accurately," said Mark
Jenner, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation.
"The reason we have nutrients running out drain tiles and going
places we don't want them is that we just don't have the (proper)
data," Jenner said. "Precision agriculture is a tool that
producers have that allows them to put materials where they want
them and get the best use out of them. We see this as a very
economical way for the ag industry to collect remote sensing data
any time they want," Tian said. "It could be that a farmer
would need only a tractor, a combine and a helicopter like this to
do the farming."
The AirStar UAV Daisy Drone has the ability to hover in one spot
for 2 hours or follow a pre-programmed set of aerial patterns.
The 8-foot drone operates without being noticed while it
relays live real time high definition photography and video as well
as thermal imaging optics for collecting vital micro farming data
for analysis. Quietly and without the disruption of a full
size manned helicopter or the carbon emissions spent and at a
fraction of the cost, the age of micro precision farming is here
and Mundus Group is intent on bringing it closer.
Mundus is interested in the market potential for AirStar's
Industrial Drone in precision farming and eco systems management
and protection.
Source: See Original AirStar UAV Urbana Illinois field testing
picture and Press Release article by Jim Paul, The Associated Press
http://cjonline.com/stories/100903/tec_minicopter.shtml
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Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) since 1990 through its fully owned VTOL
division, Roadable Aircraft International (RAI). From U.S.
Navy co-developed UAVs for aerial observation and environmental
testing to advanced VTOL aerospace technology for civilian and
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