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.

For B2B clients and agri-tech companies, we also offer GIS workflow design and automation — building repeatable spatial data pipelines, custom processing scripts, and field intelligence layers that integrate into your existing systems or reporting stack.

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.
• 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 & Field Intelligence

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.

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.

What We Analyse

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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