Effect of spreader drone heights towards granules distribution

Abstract

In current years, drone technology has been vigorous in the industry. For example, in agriculture, the drone was involved, such as precision agriculture monitoring, soil, field analysis, planting crops, crop monitoring, etc. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate the performance container toward granule distribution via a spreader drone. The objective is to measure the container's capacity and efficiency that use as a medium to distribute the granules. In this study, two different granule size-types were prepared to research by utilizing the grid system area as big as 80 inches x 120 inches. This grid system was set in nine (9) plots in the same regions for study observation. Plus, two types of height have been used, which is 1.2 meter and 2.0 meter. From the result, the capability of the container distributor was achieved by granules distributed uniformly. The findings have been derived from experimental, the all granules type has shown a fair distribution, especially at 2.0 meter and has covered more than 88% at all area observation.