Oil Palm Precission

Agriculture
With UAV Imagery
PT Bentara Tabang Nusantara (BETA) is a company
engaged in the design, production, and operation of
unmanned aerial system. BETA offers products and
services to meet the market needs and developing
new technologies
BETA brings the spirit of innovation in
advanced technology especially on unmanned
systems. Always inspiring and accommodate
new ideas for better future

Keeping “as simple as possible, but not simpler” is our inspiration for
future innovation. At BETA, we believe that complex problem could be
solved using simple solution with the help of creativity and technology
Typical Common Method
Typical Common Method
• Traditional Scouting • Satellite remote sensing
• Traditional scouting requires spending hours and hours of • Cost
visualizing
• Involves manual operations, ineffective techniques • Low resolution
• Limitation of human/labor resources (Not on demand) • Difficulties of access
• Repeated dull tasks (i.e., Palm census)
(Not on-demand)
• Not a pleasant environment to work (hot, humid) • Ground sensing
• Hazard/ Safety (Falling from trees, bugs, snakes, etc) • Time consuming
• Generates Inaccurate/biased statistics • Limited field of view
• Requires expert knowledge/Post processing (i.e., lab analysis
of data)
• Generates limited information (Does not provide
comprehensive result)
• Ignored parameters due to measurement’s difficulties (i.e.,
tree height, canopy diameter, tasks that involves climbing
trees)
Typical Common Method
Problem Statement
• Plant densities are an important and
limiting factor for growth, Nutritional
status, fruiting and hence for a
plantation’s yield
• Optimal plant densities depend on different
factors, such as cultivars, climate, soil
characteristics, land preparation…
• Refilling of canopy gaps and correction of
non-optimal plant densities are of high
priority for a good plantation management
• Conventional method, solely based on
visual observation, inaccurate,
particularly when coverage is large and
dominant topography is hillocky.
Typical Common Method
UAV Imagery as a Solution
• Tree Counting
• Identifying Unhealthy Plants
• Density Calculation
• Estimating Tree Counts for a Given Area (AOI)
• And many more !
Typical Common Method
3d Modelling & Orthomosaic
Typical Common Method
Estimating Palm tree counts in a selected area of interest
Typical Common Method
Identification of Poor Spots
Typical Common Method
Identifying Unhealthy Palm
• Based on Areial Imagery
Ortorectifiaction
• Top View of every plants, with GSD
(ground sampling distance) around
10 cm/pixel
Typical Common Method
Plant Health
• Healthy plants have a
strong near infrared
reflectivity, called the
"Red Edge".
Typical Common Method
Crown Size Measurement
Typical Common Method
And Many More…
• RGB Camera results (orthomosaics and 3D models) can be used to
observe many things
• Flood, river, irrigation, plantation, even Palm Oil Theft.
• Research against crop health analysis using multispectral camera is
still limited
• Thus, there are still so many possibilities for data extraction
• Pesticide/insecticide use
• Soil Condition , etc.
• PT Bentara Tabang Nusantara