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Knowledge Base: handbooks that turn maps into decisions

DroneField is more than mapping software. Our Knowledge Base holds ten professional handbooks — each available in nine languages — plus tutorial videos, all in the customer portal. Two handbooks are free after registration; the other eight are part of the subscription.

10 handbooks · 9 languages · tutorial videos · continuously updated

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DroneField professional handbooks on a desk, with a multispectral vegetation index map open in the DroneField app on the monitor behind them

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Practical guide · Free

How to Capture Good Drone Monitoring Imagery: Flight Settings, Weather and SD Cards

Capture drone imagery that gives a clean vegetation index map: overlap, altitude, RTK, wind and cloud limits, SD card speed classes and a pre-flight checklist.

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Start here. These two handbooks cover the foundations every drone monitoring workflow depends on: capturing imagery that is worth analysing, and understanding what a nutrient map can and cannot tell you.

Practical guide · Free

How to capture great monitoring imagery

For beginners. Flight settings (AGL height, overlap, speed), weather and sun angle, SD cards and image transfer, processing in DroneField and a pre-flight checklist. For multispectral and RGB surveys.

What you will learn

  • Flight height, overlap and speed
  • Weather and sun angle
  • SD card handling and image transfer
  • Processing in DroneField
  • Pre-flight checklist
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Practical guide · Free

Nitrogen and foliar feeding from the map

What a multispectral map tells you about nutrient supply — and what it does not. The role and deficiency symptoms of 12 macro- and micronutrients, targeted plant and soil sampling by zone, zoned nitrogen top-dressing, foliar feeding principles, a mixing test and a checklist. No doses or product names.

What you will learn

  • What the map shows about nutrients
  • 12 macro- and micronutrients and their deficiency symptoms
  • Plant and soil sampling by zone
  • Zoned nitrogen top-dressing
  • Foliar feeding principles and mixing test
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Eight handbooks that go deep: the theory and practice of vegetation indices, crop-by-crop guides to reading multispectral maps through the season, and a field manual for documenting wildlife and natural damage.

Detailed guide · Subscription

Vegetation indices in practice

How light becomes a number: RGB and multispectral cameras, reflectance. NDVI, GNDVI, NDRE, EVI and VARI — which one to use and when. Phenology, index choice by crop, reading the map, DroneField presets, and how an index becomes a variable-rate plan. With glossary.

What you will learn

  • RGB vs. multispectral, reflectance
  • NDVI, GNDVI, NDRE, EVI, VARI — which one when
  • Index choice by crop and growth stage
  • Reading the map and DroneField presets
  • From index to variable-rate plan
  • Glossary
Crop guide · Subscription

Maize multispectral monitoring

Growth stages and flight calendar, plant counting, zoning nitrogen top-dressing and weed patches, damage and disease patterns, index selection, variable-rate application and the most common mistakes.

What you will learn

  • Growth stages and flight calendar
  • Plant counting
  • Nitrogen and weed-patch zoning
  • Damage and disease patterns
  • Variable-rate application
  • Common mistakes
Crop guide · Subscription

Winter wheat multispectral monitoring

Growth stages, overwintering assessment, zoning nitrogen top-dressing and fungicide applications, NDRE around heading, and planning the harvest order.

What you will learn

  • Growth stages
  • Overwintering assessment
  • Nitrogen and fungicide zoning
  • NDRE around heading
  • Harvest order
Crop guide · Subscription

Sunflower multispectral monitoring

Plant counting, fungicide zoning, hail damage assessment, why the head misleads the index at flowering, and timing desiccation.

What you will learn

  • Plant counting
  • Fungicide zoning
  • Hail damage assessment
  • Why the head misleads at flowering
  • Desiccation timing
Crop guide · Subscription

Soybean multispectral monitoring

With a South American (Brazil, Argentina) focus and Hungarian notes marked separately. Growth stages, plant stand, weed patches (including Canada thistle), disease and pest patterns, desiccation and variable-rate application.

What you will learn

  • Growth stages
  • Plant stand
  • Weed patches
  • Disease and pest patterns
  • Desiccation
  • Variable-rate application
Crop guide · Subscription

Orchard multispectral monitoring

Per-tree evaluation, row masking, missing-tree inventory, vigour trend, irrigation sectors and picking order. Apple, pear and stone fruit.

What you will learn

  • Per-tree evaluation
  • Row masking
  • Missing-tree inventory
  • Vigour trend
  • Irrigation sectors
  • Picking order
Crop guide · Subscription

Vineyard multispectral monitoring

Canopy-masked maps, inter-row masking, missing-vine list, vigour zones, selective harvest, esca-suspect vines and the recommended flight height.

What you will learn

  • Canopy and inter-row masking
  • Missing-vine list
  • Vigour zones
  • Selective harvest
  • Esca-suspect vines
  • Recommended flight height
Assessment guide · Subscription

Wildlife and natural damage assessment by drone

Documenting wildlife damage (wild boar, deer, roe deer) and natural damage (hail, drought, storm, waterlogging): flight planning, control areas, delineating the damaged area, plant-count-based yield loss estimate, a printable assessment sheet and checklist.

What you will learn

  • Flight planning for damage surveys
  • Control areas
  • Delineating the damaged area
  • Plant-count-based yield loss estimate
  • Printable assessment sheet and checklist

How to get the handbooks

  1. Register for a free DroneField account.
  2. Log in to the customer portal and open the Knowledge Base menu.
  3. Download the free handbooks right away; subscribe to unlock the rest.

The Knowledge Base also contains tutorial videos, and new material is added regularly.

Looking for how the software itself works? The user manual is public: Open the user manual

FAQ

What is in the DroneField Knowledge Base?

Ten professional handbooks on multispectral monitoring — capturing imagery, vegetation indices, crop-specific map reading for maize, winter wheat, sunflower, soybean, orchards and vineyards, nitrogen and foliar feeding, and damage assessment — plus tutorial videos. Everything is available in nine languages in the customer portal.

Are the handbooks free?

Two of them are free after registration: "How to capture great monitoring imagery" and "Nitrogen and foliar feeding from the map". The other eight handbooks are included in the DroneField subscription.

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