PREPARATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL REGISTER BASED ON UAV TECHNOLOGY AND GIS TECHNIQUES. CASE STUDY

Abstract

In the agricultural field and especially in precision agriculture, drones can be used for various activities such as: monitoring crop health, identifying diseases and pests, monitoring irrigation equipment, generating images underlying the determination of fertilization doses, monitoring livestock. From high spatial resolution aerial images, but also from three-dimensional digital models can be extracted information particularly useful for inventory of natural resources, monitoring of risk phenomena, complex territorial analysis or mapping and representation of the territory. In this context, the aim of the study is to create a complex agricultural register for experimental sites, by applying a modern working methodology that includes high-precision data acquired through UAV technology and processed in the GIS environment. The working methodology involved: locating the area of interest; data acquisition with DJI Phantom 4 Pro UAV equipment; extracting information in vector format, in the AutoCAD Map 3D 2016 software and processing data in the GIS environment - in this stage the descriptive database was created and the cartographic materials were generated. The resulting agricultural register provides a true picture of the reality on the ground but also an important volume of descriptive data associated with each entity in the experimental site. Geospatial data obtained through UAV and GIS techniques can be integrated into studies or analyzes together with other environmental data (climatic, pedological, geological, socio-economic data) and can be a support in making management or organization decisions.