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Spatial Technologies                                                                            29



               Technical expertise





               gives farmers the edge






               Spatial Technologies combines 40 years of mapping and technological expertise
               to provide complete and easily digestible end-to-end services for companies in
               construction, architecture and agriculture.








                                                   patial  Technologies     agribusinesses: 3D models can
                                                   specialises in high      be developed to provide contour
                                                   resolution imaging and   mapping to help planning and
                                                   contour mapping for a    drainage; aerial imaging can identify
                                        Svariety of  purposes,              vegetation; multi-spectral imagery
                                        deploying an impressive range       can identify detailed information
                                        of  Unmanned  Aerial Vehicles       from crops in terms of diseases,
                                        (UAVs, also known as drones), 3D    health and growth and provide
                                        laser scanners and  geographic      data for use in precision agriculture;
                                        information systems (GIS) to        and thermal imagery  from UAVs
                                        identify and analyse data beyond    can identify feral animals and then
                                        the capabilities of the human eye.  drop bait at these locations.

                                        Unlike many of its competitors, Spatial   One  particularly useful  application
                                        Technologies provides a complete    for  the  horticulture industry is the
                                        service for its clients: not only   use of multi-spectral imagery and
                                        capturing the data, but also doing the   GIS in yield estimation for crops. The
                                        analysis and then presenting it in an   imagery gained from UAV flights can
                                        easy-to-read format.                be compared to previous seasons
                                                                            to  determine  growth  rates and
                                        “From a client’s perspective,       accurately calculate future yields. And
                                        it’s cheaper to  work  with one     as with all the data gained by Spatial
                 “From a client’s       company that does everything        Technologies, it can be presented in
               perspective, it’s        rather  than  several  different    any format the customer chooses.
               cheaper to work          companies doing one task each,”
               with one company         says Anton van Wyk, Director and    For  farming customers, the data
               that does everything     co-Founder of the company.          collected by Spatial Technologies
               rather than several                                          provides a platform to gain a
               different companies      The suite of expertise provided     better understanding of what is
               doing one task each”
                                        by   Spatial  Technologies  has     happening  on  the  land  and  be
               Anton van Wyk            numerous benefits for farmers and   more productive.



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