Please fill this web form to schedule your request for drone use with the LSU Precision Agriculture Team. This service is provided only for faculties and staff of LSU system with educational and research purposes. Due to several requests lately we are charging the flight mission and sensor data gathering and processing to support our trained students that are proficient on various sensors and are drone certified pilots.

Drone Surveys

• Standard Flight with multispectral camera $200.
Add RGB sensor survey: +$100
Additional distance is $0.85 per mile after 30 miles roundtrip.

Digital Ag Lab Services

-  Mosaic Stitching
• Faculty or staff provides images in geotiff and we deliver stitched mosaic
• $100 per mosaic up to 20 acres (areas bigger than 20 acres have to be discussed)

- Data Analysis - $50/hr labor
• Zonal statistics calculation of drone mosaic raster data at plot level.
• Pseudo Invariant Radiometric Calibration of temporally variant drone mosaics.

- Training - $50-200/hr
• Grad students: $50/hr labor
• Professor(s): $200/hr labor
• Site visits cost $0.85 / mile travel distance from LSU in addition to training fees

PS: To understand how it works the payment system for this service, please contact Luciano Shiratsuchi. All data process uses open source and free softwares.