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Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle(UAV), for Oil
Palm Plantation
By

JWAN M ALDOSKI

Geospatial Information Science Research Center (GISRC),

Faculty of Engineering,
Universiti Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang,
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Malaysia.
Outline
 What is the UAV
 How UAS Works
 Purposes for UAS

Their benefits
 Where they are headed
 Questions
 What is a UAV?
 It also called Drones, Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) by
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) & adopted
by United States Department of Defense (DOD) &Civil
Aviation Authority(UK).
 Powered, aerial vehicles
 No human operator on board
 Can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely
 Can be expendable or recoverable
 Can carry weapons or surveillance
equipment)
UAV types
1.Fixed wing
2.Rotary Wing
 UAV components
1. Vehicle or platform itself

Predator
Nano Puma AE
Hummingbird

Solar Eagle
Honeywell T-Hawk
Payload
support equipment
like control station, data
links, telemetry,
communications and
navigation and related
equipment necessary to
operate the UA.
 How UAS Works
 Collects Data 
 Processes it into images
 Sends images to centers for furfure analysis
 Purposes for UAS
 Firefighting 
 Police Disturbances (crime
scenes, etc)
 natural disasters
 atmospheric research scientific
research,
 oceanographic research,
 geophysical research,
 mineral exploration,
 imaging spectrometry,
 traffic
 agricultural spraying,
 aerial photography,
UAV Advantages

 Safety, No pilot to be shot down, Can fly into

hurricanes or at low altitudes over the ocean
 Little damage when they crash due to their light
weight
 It can be made and built in a time of 3-4 days.
 All components are locally available.
 Flight need not be scheduled. It can be based
on the weather conditions and preferences of
the farmer.
 Availability of data and imagery immediately
after the flight.

Disadvantages  Significant experience required to fly the


UAV.
 Easily destructible.
UAV for oil palm plantation

 The oil palm plantation business involves extensive area and

getting reliable ground information is critical. Plantation
managements rely on ground staffs to report on field conditions.
Most of the times, you need a holistic view to see what's out
there.
 With our experience and technology, we are not only just
providing you with this holistic view via our Sensefly UAVs, we
go 2 steps beyond. We extract and produce crucial analysis
through GIS, helping you to make that important business
decision on remedial actions required to improve your estate
conditions.
Palm stand per hectare / palm census
Mapping for Oil Palm Plantations
Actual planted area by block

 2. Palm stand per hectare / palm census 

 3. 4. Unplantable area (river riparians, steep regions, lake)
 5. Road network and their density for each block
 oil palm plant density

Poor plant density good plant density

Identify Unplanted area
Land Feasibility Scouting For
Establishment Of Oil Palm Plantation
Oil palm growing rate
Ganoderma detection in oil palm
plantation
Bagworms

 Standard operating procedures (SOP) guidelines for bagworms

control
 The census methods is based on the international standards of
phytosanitary Measures, ISPM. No. 6- Guidelines for Surveillance (1997),
Fronds with inclination of 45 O or upper fronds with sign of bagworms
attack need to be cut down (figure). As precisely estimating the percentage
of oil palm foliar affected by bagworms damage was difficult, bagworms
damage ratings were assigned based estimation of damage severity
corresponding to the ratings suggested by Pickel et al. (2006) however in
this study, each foliar was given a damage rating ranging from 0 (no
damage) to 3 (sever damage) the criteria used to assign the damage ratings
is listed in table. Oil palm leaves measurement samples were taken from
healthy and 4 different levels of infection. The samples were classified into
five classes of T0, T1, T2, T3 and T4. T0 represents healthy oil palms, T2
represents the very light symptom, T2 represents the light symptom, T3
represents the medium symptom of bagworms infection and T4 represents
severe bagworms infection
 1. Detection of Attack and buffer zone measure
Attack zone
is defined as the area in which there are signs of bagworms attacks and damage on
one or more trees regardless of the area of cultivation attack zone can be confirmed
by visual damage ( through field viewing and Arial photo view ).
Buffer zone
It is defined as the adjacent surrounding areas to the attack zone which needs to be
monitored and treated if necessary. The zone covers at least 500 metre radius from
the border of the attack zone.

Figure Attack and buffer

zone
Bagworm census

 Standard operating procedures (SOP) guidelines for bagworms

control
Bagworms effect
 Interesting, right?
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