Precision tools for plantation management

Drone Mapping & Aerial Surveys

Precision aerial surveys for coffee, tea, and mixed plantations — and any crop grown across irregular or sloped terrain. We deploy a mapping drone with RTK GPS positioning to capture your estate at centimetre-level accuracy, covering boundary demarcation, area measurement, terrain modelling, and aerial documentation.

Every survey is processed using photogrammetry — the science of building accurate 3D models and orthomosaics from overlapping aerial images. The result is publication-quality maps and terrain models your team can immediately act on. Where crops or trees are exposed to open sky and visible to the drone camera, multispectral analysis can also provide canopy health data.

Outputs

• Orthomosaic RGB map — High-resolution aerial view stitched from hundreds of images. Up to 3 cm/pixel resolution.
• Digital Terrain Model (DTM) — Bare-earth surface model showing true land contours — used for slope analysis and drainage planning.
• Digital Surface Model (DSM) — Surface model including canopy and structures — used to estimate tree heights and canopy variation.
• NDVI / NDRE maps — Multispectral vegetation indices where crops or trees are directly exposed to the sky and drone camera.
• Slope-corrected area calculations — True surface area accounting for terrain slope — essential for accurate acreage billing and yield estimates.
• Pond & lake volume survey — Fill-depth mapping, spillover risk, and precise storage volume for irrigation ponds and lakes — surveyed the same way as the rest of the estate.
• Boundary KML file — GPS polygon of your estate boundary, importable into any GIS or mission-planning software.
• GIS report (PDF) — Printable summary report covering terrain analysis, spatial statistics, and key estate metrics.

GIS Analytics & Precision Agronomy

Turn aerial imagery into actionable decisions for your estate. GIS Analytics takes the raw outputs from a drone survey — orthomosaics, DSMs, and multispectral layers — and interprets them into insights you can act on. Precision agronomy takes it further: siting crops zone by zone, and detecting and counting individual plants and trees directly from the imagery.

Rather than handing you a map and leaving interpretation to you, we deliver an analysis layer: which zones are performing, which are struggling, where to focus your next intervention, and how the estate has changed over time.

We also support GIS teams, survey companies, and drone mapping freelancers who need raw drone data processed and interpreted for their own clients — custom processing pipelines, repeatable workflows, and conversion into 3D and CAD formats built around how you work.

What We Analyse

Field Planning & Precision GPS

We believe in flying drones automatically wherever possible — it avoids the inconsistencies and risk of manual flight. Every mapping mission starts with a boundary: drawn, edited, or imported directly from a walked GPS track, right in your browser.

Any boundary — GeoJSON, shapefile, or another common format — converts directly into a flight-mappable file, ready to import into an enterprise-grade mapping drone's own flight-planning software. The same boundary also drives an automated video flight path, flown at a smooth, constant speed and gimbal angle, and precisely repeatable a year or more later for a direct before/after comparison of how the landscape has changed.

The same polygon editor works as a general-purpose spatial tool too — property boundary demarcation, asset and infrastructure mapping, agri-input planning, and any land-record or GIS use case, independent of whether a drone survey follows at all.

Precision GPS — Base Stations & Handheld Devices

Precision positioning is the foundation every boundary, flight mission, and GIS layer here is built on. We support the installation of RTK base stations, and train clients on precision handheld GNSS/RTK receivers for accurate boundary and resource marking in the field — for personal or business use, independent of any drone survey.

ThotaTracker

Digital records for every operation on your estate. Works offline. No paper needed.

ThotaTracker is a Progressive Web App (PWA) — it installs on any iOS or Android phone like a native app, works fully offline in the field, and syncs when you reconnect. The interface mirrors the paper workflow estate managers already use, so the transition from notebooks to digital is frictionless.

Currently live and in active daily use on a production coffee estate in Coorg.

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