North America, Europe and the Far East are the key producers of agriculture drones. Agriculture drones are quite helpful in controlling production costs by reducing farm labours.

There is a wide range of drones available for farmers and more models are coming.

However, drones can be classified into three main categories based on engineering features such as wing type, endurance, flight speed, sensors etc. These types are flat Winged drones, rotary-winged drones, parachute/balloon drones.

Flat Winged drones

• Precision Hawk’s Lancaster
• eBee
• Swinglet Cam
• Wave Sight
• CropCam Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Trimble’s UX5 Agricultural Drone
• Agribotix Hornet Drone

Rotary winged drones

• RMAX
• Yintong
• Venture Outrider and Venture Surveyor
• EnsoMOSAIC Quadcopter

Parachute/balloon drones

· SUSI-62 UAV

Agricultural drones can also be classified based on actual agronomic procedures:

• Aerial seeding and seedling-monitoring drones.
• Canopy and crop growth-stage monitoring drones.
• Crop disease/pests identification drones.
• Crop protection drones which spray crops protection chemicals.
• Crop monitoring drones collect data about NDVI, leaf chlorophyll and plant-N status. These drones can be able to apply liquid fertilizer-N.
• Harvesting drones can detect crop maturity and can capture accurate digital data/imagery.
• Data drones collect periodic data about the soil-type variations, seeding trends, seedling emergence etc.