Specialist multispectral drone surveys using the MicaSense Altum sensor – five discrete spectral bands plus thermal captured simultaneously. Research-grade NDVI, NDRE, and classified vegetation maps for precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, forestry assessment, and habitat mapping.
Multispectral survey pricing from €700 per day
Six data products – radiometrically calibrated and georeferenced – delivered in GeoTIFF, shapefile, and KMZ formats compatible with all major GIS and precision agriculture platforms.
Normalised Difference Vegetation Index showing plant vigour and health status across your survey area. Colour-coded for immediate interpretation – from stressed zones to healthy growth.
Normalised Difference Red-Edge Index for early detection of nutrient stress and disease onset – detecting problems before visible symptoms appear, enabling targeted intervention.
Temperature maps for irrigation scheduling, disease hotspot detection, and thermal stress assessment. Captured simultaneously with multispectral data for combined analysis.
High-resolution stitched RGB imagery with precise geospatial referencing for mapping, GIS overlay, and visual documentation alongside the vegetation index outputs.
Available on request: Variable Rate Application zones exported as shapefiles or rasters, the formats precision agriculture platforms import.
Technical report with methodology, data quality assessment, vegetation index analysis, and recommendations tailored to your application – agriculture, environmental, or forestry.
Get research-grade multispectral data with NDVI, NDRE, and thermal outputs in GIS-compatible formats – covering 100 to 150 hectares a day with the MicaSense Altum sensor.
Four structured steps from initial planning to final delivery of calibrated, research-grade outputs.
We discuss your objectives, review your survey area, and determine optimal timing and specifications. Flight plans are created in UgCS or DJI Pilot with terrain following enabled. Ground control points are established if sub-5cm accuracy is required.
The DJI M300 RTK carries the MicaSense Altum sensor. Direct Light Sensor calibration is performed at mission start. Multispectral imagery is captured in parallel with RGB and thermal data, with automatic exposure optimisation for each spectral band.
Raw multispectral and RGB imagery is processed through Agisoft Metashape to generate aligned multispectral orthomosaics and point clouds. NDVI, NDRE, and thermal maps are calculated. Data is georeferenced using RTK positioning and ground control points.
Outputs delivered as GeoTIFF files, shapefiles, and KMZ files compatible with GIS and precision agriculture platforms. A detailed summary report outlines methodology, data quality, findings, and recommendations tailored to your application.
What a drone multispectral survey covers, what the indices actually tell you, and what a day on site costs.
Send us the site boundary, the number of visits you expect across the season and the decision you need the data to support, and we will confirm the right index set and a fixed price within 24 hours.
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Common questions about our multispectral mapping services.
Standard RGB cameras capture three visible light bands (red, green, blue). Multispectral sensors capture additional bands beyond visible light – including red edge and near-infrared – which reveal information about plant health, moisture content, and soil conditions that RGB cameras cannot detect. Only genuine multispectral sensors provide the data needed for accurate NDVI and NDRE calculations.
Accuracy depends on sensor quality, calibration, flight conditions, and processing methodology. Our MicaSense Altum sensor with downwelling light sensor calibration produces research-grade NDVI and NDRE outputs. The DLS compensates for changing light conditions during the flight, ensuring consistent results. We recommend flying in even lighting conditions where possible for best results.
They can. Multispectral outputs can support Appropriate Assessments, Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (EIARs) and habitat condition monitoring under the EU Habitats Directive, as objective, repeatable evidence of vegetation condition and habitat extent. Whether they are accepted for a specific submission is for your consultant or the competent authority to confirm.
For a typical agricultural survey flown at 80 metres altitude, we can typically cover 100 to 150 hectares per day. This depends on required ground sampling distance, terrain complexity, and airspace restrictions. Larger areas may require multiple survey days. We confirm coverage rates during initial consultation based on your specific site conditions.
Standard deliverables include georeferenced orthomosaic imagery, NDVI and other requested vegetation index maps, and a summary report. We deliver in GeoTIFF, shapefile, and KMZ formats for compatibility with GIS platforms and precision agriculture software. Additional outputs such as classified vegetation maps or VRA prescription maps can be produced on request.
Multispectral survey pricing starts at €700 per day and is quoted fixed before mobilisation. Because the value of multispectral data comes from comparison over time rather than a single snapshot, most clients book a series of visits across a season; that is priced per visit, so the cost per survey falls as the schedule grows. Send us the site boundary and the number of visits you expect for a fixed quote within 24 hours.
NDVI drone mapping measures the difference between near-infrared and red reflectance to produce an index of vegetation vigour. It is genuinely useful for showing where a field or canopy differs from itself and how that pattern shifts between visits. Its limit is that it saturates in dense canopy and does not identify a cause: a low reading tells you something is different, not whether it is water, nutrient, compaction or disease. That is why we usually pair it with red-edge or chlorophyll indices and recommend ground truthing before acting.
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