Crop analysis

Mainly almond, olive, vine and citrus, which is what dominates in Mallorca; arable and horticultural crops on request. In terms of area we work from 2–3 hectare plots up to estates of several hundred: the per-hectare price drops notably with size, because the fixed cost of travel and planning is spread out.

It depends on the objective. For season monitoring, three to five flights at the crop's key moments: in vines, for example, budbreak, fruit set, veraison and pre-harvest. For a one-off diagnosis — an area doing badly for no clear reason — one flight is enough. The honest approach is to tell you after seeing the plot, not to sell you a twelve-flight plan.

A georeferenced orthomosaic, the index maps by sector and a short report with the areas to check, prioritised, and the recommendation for each. It comes as a navigable PDF readable on a phone and, if your adviser works with QGIS or an agronomic platform, also as GeoTIFF and shapefile for direct loading.

No. The PDF report opens on any phone or computer, and the flagged areas carry visual references to locate them in the field. The technical formats are an extra for those already using GIS tools, not a requirement.

The map tells you where to look; it does not replace agronomic judgement. Real example: a sector with 20 % less vigour usually means checking the drip irrigation in that zone, adjusting fertilisation, or an outbreak starting. We flag the prioritised areas and the pattern they suggest; the final decision is yours with your technician — and if you have none, we point you in the right direction.

Georeferenced orthomosaics are valid graphic documentation with date and coordinates, and have been used to evidence crop condition and damage. That said, every procedure has its format requirements: tell us what you need it for before the flight and we prepare it to work first time.

Sentinel-2 gives you a 10-metre pixel every few days, clouds permitting: perfect for whole-estate trends. The drone gives centimetres per pixel, on the day you choose, below the clouds: that is what lets you distinguish rows, detect gaps and locate a stress focus in its first phase. Trends with satellite, decisions with drone; they complement rather than compete.