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Agricultural production is the fundamental guarantee for human survival. No matter how human society develops, food must be consumed; no matter how advanced technology becomes, crops must be cultivated; and at any time, food production must occur. Agriculture is the foundation of all industries, and food cultivation is the foundation of the foundation. Therefore, agriculture is regarded as the primary industry. As is well known, technological progress changes the production methods of agriculture, but the eternal demand for food by humans remains unchanged. The change in production methods is always to provide more advanced productivity for humans to obtain food.
From the original manual sowing to the later use of livestock labor, and then to the mechanical farming after the Industrial Revolution, each transformation was aimed at providing advanced production capabilities for food production, which was to reduce the intensity of manual labor and increase the yield. In general, every advancement in agricultural productivity before was carried out in a two-dimensional labor production scenario. However, the Internet revolution that occurred in the last century, with the deep application of technologies such as the Internet of Things, informatization, big data, cloud computing, drones, and artificial intelligence, especially the application of drones and intelligent technologies, has pushed traditional agriculture’s two-dimensional scenario into a three-dimensional labor scenario, which is “agriculture in the air”.
What is “Aerial Farming”? “Aerial Farming” is a completely new and state-of-the-art modern agricultural production method. It involves conducting agricultural production activities in the air using unmanned aerial vehicles instead of the traditional ground-based labor methods. For instance, the pesticides that were previously sprayed by humans in the fields can now be sprayed in the air through the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence technology. The pesticide spraying device is carried by the unmanned aerial vehicle, and it can spray pesticides in the air. The tasks of checking the growth conditions of crops and detecting pests and diseases in the fields, which were previously done by humans, can now be accomplished by the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying high-resolution cameras and multispectral sensors. By viewing the real-time data transmitted on mobile devices, one can have a clear understanding. Such agricultural operations and production carried out in the air can be called “Aerial Farming”.