Harvest Planning Lodging Detection
Detect lodged rice wheat for combine route
Mission briefing
Harvest Planning Lodging Detection sits in the pre-harvest stage of the crop cycle. It runs on a mavic 3m carrying rgb + lidar, and in Bihar the window is 1 week before at a frequency of 1x. Expect roughly 200ha/hr per sortie, and stand the drone down outside the wind <8m/s envelope — flying past it wastes chemical and risks drift onto neighbouring plots. Readings are interpreted through RGB lodging map, so the payload has to output those bands rather than plain RGB. Detect lodged rice wheat for combine route On a easy-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 + LiDAR
- Drone class
- Mavic 3M
- Vegetation indices
- RGB lodging map
When to fly (Bihar)
- Timing
- 1 week before
- Frequency
- 1x
- Coverage
- 200ha/hr
- Weather envelope
- Wind <8m/s
Drones that run this mission
What this pass costs to buy in
Custom-hire rates operators actually charge for scouting work. Use these as the benchmark before you decide whether to own a drone or hire one for harvest planning lodging detection.
| State | Job | ₹/acre | ₹/ha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar | NDVI Scout | ₹150 | ₹370 |
Before you fly this mission
- DGCA rules for agricultural flying →
Green-zone limits, 120 m ceiling and the paperwork a spray sortie needs.
- Kisan Drone subsidy 2026 →
Up to 100% support for FPOs and CHCs buying the drone that runs this pass.
- Agri drone price list India →
What the machines capable of this mission cost, ex-showroom.
- Pilot licence cost & RPTO list →
You cannot fly this commercially without a DGCA remote pilot certificate.