Agriculture
Livestock, crop and boundary monitoring across large holdings.
- Sector colour
- Core Aqua
- Reference
- #00FFB1
- Mission types
- 4
- Recommended airframes
- 3
Why UAS, and why this platform.
Acreage makes ground inspection expensive and slow. Scheduled autonomous sorties cover stock, crop health and boundaries on a repeating cycle, and the economics work because the aircraft is cheap enough to fly every day.
Every ShadowVu airframe shares one architecture, one parts bin and the same three-minute build, so scaling the aircraft to this mission never means leaving the platform or standing up a second support chain. Aircraft are made in the United Kingdom on a secure supply chain, 85 percent in house, with a defined pathway to remove China from that chain entirely.
Representative operating environment. Aircraft are configured to the mission rather than the other way around.
What the fleet is asked to do here.
The mission types this sector deploys against most often. Payloads are configured per mission, in house or with partners through ShadowVu Labs.
Livestock monitoring
Crop health survey
Boundary inspection
Yield mapping
Where we would start.
A recommendation, not a rule. Every aircraft is built on the same architecture, so the choice is a frame class and an endurance profile rather than a different product.
Hawk
Fixed-wing · FPV
Hawk trades the hover for distance, covering a large holding in a single sortie instead of a dozen rotary legs.
Ranger
Quad-copter · FPV
A daily stock check and boundary run is an economics problem before it is a flying problem, and Ranger is cheap enough to fly every day.
Huey
Quad-copter · FPV
Multi-spectral arrays for crop health weigh considerably more than a standard camera, and Huey scales across five prop sizes to carry them.
Persistent, uncrewed coverage of a fixed site is added with Quad-Dock, which charges and relaunches the aircraft without a person present. Fleets of any size are managed through ShadowVu Everest.
Get the full picture
Bring the agriculture requirement.
Tell us what has to be seen, how often and under what constraint, and we will be straight with you about the airframe, the payload and what the platform does not do.