Pest - Paddy Blast Detection
Brown spot + temp rise = blast early
Mission briefing
Pest - Paddy Blast Detection sits in the growth-scout stage of the crop cycle. It runs on a m3m + m30t carrying rgb + ms + thermal fusion, and in Bihar the window is after 40 das at a frequency of weekly. Expect roughly 150ha/hr per sortie, and stand the drone down outside the same as ndvi envelope — flying past it wastes chemical and risks drift onto neighbouring plots. Readings are interpreted through RGB color + Thermal, so the payload has to output those bands rather than plain RGB. Brown spot + temp rise = blast early On a medium-difficulty mission like this, the cost driver is not the drone — it is the number of return trips and the pilot hours around them, which is what the payback maths on the economics page turns on.
What you need
- Payload
- RGB + MS + Thermal fusion
- Drone class
- M3M + M30T
- Vegetation indices
- RGB color + Thermal
When to fly (Bihar)
- Timing
- After 40 DAS
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Coverage
- 150ha/hr
- Weather envelope
- Same as NDVI