Deere Acquires Sentera

John Deere recently acquired Minnesota-based Sentera, a provider of remote imagery solutions for agriculture.

The acquisition will advance the capabilities of John Deere’s existing technology offerings, providing farmers and ag service providers with a more comprehensive set of tools to generate and use data to make decisions.

Sentera’s cameras are compatible with most major drone platforms and enable farmers and crop scouts to quickly and efficiently capture high-resolution data at scale.

Their capabilities and FieldAgent software tools help farmers and agronomists assess plant-level health, identify stressors, and take action. In addition, Smartscript Weeds, a customized herbicide prescription, can be delivered to sprayers with individual nozzle control.

Drones equipped with Sentera technology fly over fields at high speeds and generate high-resolution images.

These images are processed with Sentera’s FieldAgent application to identify the location of specific weeds and generate a weed map.

This map becomes a targeted prescription for how much product a farmer needs to load into their sprayer.

Once the prescription is generated, it can be wirelessly sent to compatible equipment through the John Deere Operations Center.

The same process can be used in a field to assess crop stand uniformity, disease pressure and pests.

Sentera will continue to supply cameras directly to drone manufacturers for integration into their products, as well as sell to farmers, agronomists, ag retailers and other users.

The John Deere Operations Center will continue to be open for other drone imagery providers for integration as well.

Source: LancasterFarming.com