Seed-Shooting Drones

Seed-Bombing Startup DroneSeed Wants to Fight Deforestation with a Swarm of UAVs (+Video)

Kelly Hodgkins | June 29, 2016

If Oregon startup DroneSeed has its way, foresters in the Pacific Northwest may be in for a surprise the next time they are out in the field. Instead of wandering into a team of people working to replant trees, they could be bombarded from above by a suite of seed-blasting drones deployed to accomplish the same task of reseeding an area after harvesting is complete.
Founded a year ago by Grant Canary and Ryan Mykita, DroneSeed is developing a specialized drone system that is designed to both identify potential planting sites and then drop seeds in these selected remote forest locations.

DroneSeed predicts its tree-planting drones can perform in an hour the same task that takes a human worker a full day.

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-drone-taking-on-one-of-the-hardest-jobs-on-the-planet-2016-06-15

DroneSeed website. "Precision Forestry with Drones." Source: http://droneseed.co/

<more at http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/seed-planting-drone/; related articles and links: http://droneseed.co/ (DroneSeed website. Precision Forestry with Drones) and http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-drone-taking-on-one-of-the-hardest-jobs-on-the-planet-2016-06-15 (The drone taking on ‘one of the hardest jobs on the planet’. DroneSeed sees tree-planting device as tractor of the forestry industry. June 15, 2016)>