HIView celebrates 10 years!! of exciting #drone explorations. Our #FlyingSensors have executed countless missions, in different parts of the world. And many to follow.

HiView completed the Flying Sensor training at ADVZ in Tete, MZ. Assisted by @ThirdEyeWater and @FutureWaterNL.Piloting and image processing. Delivered 10x Rapid Eye XS: light, low-budget and NDVI map processing in-flight. To view problem zones immediately on cellphone in-field.

Last Monday and Tuesday, HiView, together with @FutureWater, was at @ihedelft to conduct guest lectures about #drones for agriculture. Yesterday, despite bad weather, we practised in field @WURfieldcrops, the farm of the future near Lelystad.

The HiFarm project for maize, coffee and tea farms in Kenya is successfully completed. HiView and @ThirdEyeWater committed 558 #drone flights in 1,5 year. Thx to our AgPilots Veronicah Nyaguthii, Purity Kinya, manager Kiogora Julius and partners @FutureWaterNL @HGTKenya.

This week HiView conducted a short course on Flying Sensors for the Agençia de Desenvolvimento do Vale Zambeze, next to performing flights for farmers. In #Tete and Benga, middle west of #Mozambique. Together with @ThirdEye and @FutureWater.

First half of March HiView has been executing flights for @Natuurmonument at the Veluwe. #multispec images will be converted to vegetation index maps that will be used to detect the dissemination of a specific moss, #campylopus introflexus. Together with @BorgmanBeheer.

Last week Martijn de Klerk @FutureWaterNL and me conducted lectures @ihedelft. Also had a field excursion and gave a #drone flight demo at @Landbouwbedrijf Schipper in #Zinkweg. Thank you Hans Schipper for hosting us. And thanks to the motivated students. youtu.be/-iECnIRiQmA

At work again abroad. First trip after Covid 19 takes Hiview to Egypt to conduct field school days. Together with @FutureWaterNL and @IrriWatch, supported by @RVO_Nederland. At 4 different locations, about 100km around Cairo. Monitoring crops by using aerial imagery from #drones.

Flying at the break of day, exciting! This week HiView and @FutureWaterNL performed flights for a pear grower in Zeeland. Using a #thermal cam to map the temp in the pearyard. Over big ventilators that chase the night #frost. Cooperation with a research team from @tudelft.

March-April, HIView and @FutureWaterNL conducting a series of eTrainings on Flyings Sensors & crop imagery for @EgertonUniv in #Kenya (supp by @Nuffic) Reaching out to a few hundreds of participants. Great to share knowledge.

During 2020 HiView worked for @Natuurmonument with @BorgmanBeheer. Mapping young upcoming trees in heather fields in an area of 1400ha in Drenthe, using NIR (Near InfraRed) cams. From the resulting #CHM Canopy Height Model biomasses from all vegetation classes have been assessed.

In field today, 10 m/s wind. Flying our newly developped #minidrone + rgb/nir cam. 200g, low cost, auto capturing and RTH, very easy to control. Ideal for #smallscale, #quickresponse, #agriculture and various other sectors. Developed with Sam van Til. Supported by @H2020Projects

Today HiView performed test #drone flights with a thermal cam. In preparation of a MIT (from @RVO_Nederland) research project concerning frost that is a threat for fruityards. Together with @FutureWaterNL and @tudelft.

Together with my colleague Martijn de Klerk from @FutureWaterNL earlier this month we conducted lectures for @ihedelft. It feels good to share our knowledge, both practical and theoretical, with students interested in #drone technology. hiview.nl/news

Last week's lectures @ihedelft (Univ for Water Education from UN). Martijn de Klerk @FutureWaterNL and @HiViewNL conducting lectures on #drones imagery processing and flight demos. Extra: @landbouwbedrijfSchipper in #DeHoekscheWaard, showed us the machinery and stores.

Finishing the field campaign for @Natuurmonument in #Drenthe. Goal is to monitor upgrowth of young trees in the #heather fields. Flying 900km, resulting in thousands of images that will now be processed to generate vegetation elevation models.

A new training in Kenya, @Egertonuni, on Flying Sensors is coming up this year. @FutureWaterNL has been granted to supply an educational progam on #waterproductivity by @Nuffic. HiView will be responsible for training both on processing and piloting.

HiView is presently busy with research on low-cost GNSS receivers in comparison with high-end RTK devices. Together with @civTU Delft. Promising! Low-cost Ardusimple devices differ only a few cm in measured elevation. This will contribute to our EU project @twigah2020