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Techniques, Answers, and Real-World UAV Implementations for Precision Farming

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In adopting state-of-the-art technologies, a domain known in time is Agriculture for fertility optimization, expense saving, assistance, and environmental safeguard. In this aspect, deploying UAVs remains a modern example in the Agriculture sector, encompassing various possibilities at ease. Concerning innovations, UAV (drone) invention remains the standard talked-about technology. UAV’s broader view includes drone ranges like micro, mini, small, and medium aerial vehicles. Initially developed applications for the military now have used assistance like firefighting, courier services, mob surveillance, facial recognition, and many more. Within the paper, UAV applications in agriculture are of primary interest, with a notable centre of attention being crop farming. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on UAV types, crop health, agricultural sensors, remote sensing with UAVs, animal marking, pesticide sprinkling, other possible agricultural use, and Precision Agriculture. We explore the approach utilized for each UAV type application and the UAV technical characteristics and payload. Beyond uses, UAV’s services and implied advantages within agriculture are further exhibited beside talks on business correlated hurdles and additional apparent difficulties limiting the broad adoption of UAVs into agriculture. The belief of the work done in the paper will prove worthwhile to Researchers working on an amalgamation of UAVs in PA. With our work, they can make a necessary spontaneous understanding of the agricultural aspect and how it should work. Those farmers attempting modernized agricultural method optimization approaches on various levels by this work benefit from new ways of using UAVs within their farming. UAV businesses exploring innovative UAV use capacities can examine the future concerning the UAV run in agriculture furthermore strengthen their endeavours within the trend.

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Srivastava, A., Prakash, J. Techniques, Answers, and Real-World UAV Implementations for Precision Farming. Wireless Pers Commun 131, 2715–2746 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10577-z

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