561 GUIDES · REGULATIONS, PRICES, CRAFT · PAGE 1/27

Professional drone guides

EU regulations, real prices, mission preparation: concrete answers before commissioning a drone service.

• Olive orchards and drones: water stress and yield forecasting, priceFrance has 50,000 hectares of olive orchards, with 200 to 300 hectares of new super-intensive plantings every year: what drone-based canopy geometry and thermal/multispectral indexes bring to yield forecasting and irrigation management. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Prune d'Agen and drones: water stress and ripeness, price10,500 hectares of orchards under the Pruneau d'Agen IGP in south-west France, a sector weakened two years running by hail and heatwaves. What a thermal drone brings to water stress monitoring and mechanical harvest planning. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Asparagus and drones: spotting weeds on the ridge before emergence, priceMore than 6,600 hectares of asparagus grown in France in 2024, on ridges that must stay scrupulously bare before the spears emerge. What a study on drone-based young-weed detection can bring to it. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Artichoke and drones in Brittany: mapping vigour and the harvest, price21,551 tonnes of artichokes harvested in France in 2024, 71% of it in Brittany — production that has been shrinking every year since 2016. What drone-based vigour and head-density mapping brings to a grower in the Léon. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Potatoes and drones: detecting late blight, mapping pre-harvest defoliation, price7.6 million tonnes of potatoes harvested in France in 2024, six in every ten hectares grown in Hauts-de-France. What a multispectral drone flight brings against late blight and for mapping pre-harvest defoliation. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Sunflower and drones: protecting the sowing from pigeons, counting the heads, price820,000 hectares of sunflowers grown in France in 2024: 91% of bird damage happens at sowing and emergence, not at harvest. What a drone brings against wood pigeons, and what a 2026 study documents on head counting. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Hazelnuts and drones: mapping young orchards and canopy vigour, price11,400 hectares of hazelnut orchards in France in 2024 (Agreste) — a sector expanding deliberately, yet held back by a harvest cut nearly in half by the nut weevil and the brown marmorated stink bug. What a drone brings to young orchards and vigour monitoring. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Walnut orchards by drone: AOP Périgord and Grenoble, water stress, yield estimation, priceFrance, Europe's top walnut producer (27,711 t in 2024, AOP Périgord and Grenoble). What a thermal and multispectral drone flight captures on irrigation and vigour in a walnut orchard, and its use for yield estimation. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Olive groves by drone: AOP Nyons, olive fly (Bactrocera oleae), vigour, priceFrance, around 50,000 ha of olive groves, nine AOP designations including Nyons and Vallée des Baux. What a multispectral and RGB drone flight brings against the olive fly and for tracking vigour after frost or alternate bearing. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Cherry orchards and drones: targeting thinning against Drosophila suzukii, netting, priceSince arriving in France in 2010, Drosophila suzukii lays eggs in healthy cherries before harvest — leading to a €4.7m compensation payout in 2016. What science says about canopy shade and humidity, and what a drone survey draws from it to target thinning and check exclusion netting. 2026 method and prices (excl. VAT).
• Racecourses and drones: mapping track vigour, rails and priceFrance has 233 racecourses, many run by small local racing societies with no track-measurement equipment. What a 2026 New Zealand study says about turf uniformity and injury risk, and what a drone vigour map draws from it for a racecourse. 2026 method and prices (excl. VAT).
• Saffron fields and drones: crocus flowering, weeds and priceLess than 100 kg of saffron produced each year in France, on plots of a few hundred square metres to one hectare. What two studies document about drone-based crocus flower detection, and what a dawn flight changes. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Digestate spreading: what a drone survey documents for an anaerobic digestion plan, 2026 priceDistances to third parties and watercourses, spreading uniformity, a dated record for the ICPE 2781 file: what an orthophoto or a multispectral survey add to an anaerobic digestion plant's digestate spreading plan, method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Almond orchards and drone: Xylella fastidiosa, young orchards and early frost, priceFrance is replanting almond orchards but still relies heavily on imports (around 1,000 t produced against more than 42,000 t imported yearly). What a drone survey adds against Xylella fastidiosa, an incurable quarantine bacterium, and for a young orchard being established. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Agricultural water reservoirs by drone: volume, siltation and water-law permits, priceHow a drone photogrammetry survey measures an agricultural water reservoir's real volume, tracks its siltation over time and feeds a water-law permit file. Dam classification, substitution reservoirs and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Flax fibre by drone: mapping lodging, tracking field retting, priceHow a drone detects flax lodging after wind damage, and what repeated aerial monitoring can bring to judging field retting, in the world's leading production area. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Hops and hop yards by drone: vigour, downy mildew, multispectral mapping, price750 ha of hops in France in 2024 (+92% in ten years), 63% in Alsace (Bas-Rhin). What a multispectral flight captures on a canopy climbing 6-10 m — invisible from the row — for vigour and downy mildew monitoring. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Race circuits and karting tracks: drone track surveys, and the rule that changes everything once there's a crowdAerial survey of an FFSA-approved circuit's track surface (cracks, bleeding, drainage) outside race days, and why filming a race with spectators falls under the strict "assembly of people" rules. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Sargassum strandings in the French Caribbean: what a drone actually measures on the foreshoreMapping sargassum deposits beach by beach, estimating volumes by photogrammetry and prioritising collection within 48 hours in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. What a drone brings, what it does not measure (H2S), and 2026 prices excl. VAT.
• Sugarcane seen from a drone: vigour, ratoons and biomass in Réunion and the French AntillesThree-metre-tall cane cannot be judged from the edge of a field. What a multispectral drone survey brings to growers, sugar mills and rum distilleries in Réunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique: field variability, weak ratoons, gaps to replant, cyclone lodging, plus 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Mapping and monitoring a mangrove by drone: Guiana, Mayotte, the Antilles, New CaledoniaFrance's 87,905 hectares of mangrove are a vital and near-impassable environment on foot. What a drone survey brings to the manager — extent, canopy height, dieback, cyclone damage, replanting follow-up — and what it does not measure, with 2026 prices (excl. VAT).