Real Results

Real flights. Real catches. Real numbers.

Four examples pulled straight from FieldOptix flights — what we found, what it meant on the ground, and what happened next.

01 — Weed pressure & plant health

Weed pressure and plant health, mapped to the square metre.

Every flight classifies the field into fine, low-pressure and high-pressure weed zones, and scores plant vigor from excellent to no vegetation. You see exactly where — not just a rough estimate.

0.6%high weed pressure isolated on a 27.5 ha field

85%good-to-excellent vigor confirmed same flight

Weed detection map showing fine, low-pressure and high-pressure zones

Live weed detection map — fine (green), low pressure (gold), high pressure (red)

02 — A real catch

This ring cost nothing to find — and a lot to ignore.

That pale ring in the photo isn’t a shadow. It’s disturbed, under-watered ground caused by a pivot nozzle that wasn’t spraying correctly. Invisible from the pivot point. Invisible from the road. Picked up on a routine flight, before it became a bare ring in the yield map at harvest.

Caught early — flagged the same week it appeared
Located precisely — exact GPS position handed to the irrigation team
Fixed in one visit — instead of found after the damage was done

Aerial photo showing a pale ring caused by a malfunctioning pivot nozzle

03 — The full picture

Wind damage, drainage stress, seed population — all in one flight.

Weeds and vigor are two of the analyses. The same flight also flags green snap after a wind event, low-lying areas carrying moisture or elevation stress, and whether your variable-rate seeding plan actually landed the way it was prescribed.

Green snap detection map after a wind event — Green snap — 7.9% of this field down after a wind event

Elevation map cross-checked against growth stress zones — Elevation cross-checked against growth-stress zones

Growth-stage mapping across the pivot — Growth-stage mapped across the pivot

04 — Seeding, verified

Did your variable-rate seeding plan actually land? Now you can check.

After planting, a flight counts every emerged plant and checks it zone by zone against the population your VRS prescription actually called for — not one average for the whole field, but a real per-zone comparison that catches planter skips, rate errors or emergence problems before they cost yield.

2.03Mindividual plants counted and verified in this one flight

-9 to -11%shortfall against target rate, caught zone by zone on a 26 ha field

FieldOptix software showing a variable-rate stand count verification: plant population per management zone, compared against the seeding prescription's target rate

Live VRS stand-count verification — actual plant population per zone, checked against the seeding prescription

05 — Rodent damage, quantified

Rodent damage, counted plant by plant.

Rodent holes and bare patches showed up from the air on a young maize field at V2. A stand count over the whole 9.95 ha field counted 315,986 plants against 445,051 planned — 29% under norm, close to 129,065 plants missing — and mapped exactly where the gaps are.

315,986plants counted on a 9.95 ha field

29%under the planned plant population

~129,065plants missing, located on the map

Rodent burrows and bare patches between young maize rows

Stand count map of the field: green where plants stand, red where they are missing

Rodent damage from the air, and the stand count that measured it — red marks where plants are missing.

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