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🛰 Drones for Apiary Site Surveys and Forage Mapping

Fly a survey drone over a 3D landscape in a lawnmower pattern, reveal an NDVI forage-quality heatmap swath by swath, and see candidate apiary sites scored as good or poor forage once surveyed.

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A survey drone flies a lawnmower pattern over a 3D landscape, revealing an NDVI forage-quality map swath by swath and scoring candidate apiary sites as it goes.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Flight altitude trades ground sample distance against camera footprint width, side overlap sets how tightly survey lines are spaced, and NDVI turns raw imagery into a go/no-go forage signal for each candidate hive stand.

🎮 How to Use

Set altitude, speed and overlap, then watch the drone map the field. Switch to the NDVI heatmap to see forage quality in colour, and adjust the threshold to see which hive-stand markers pass.

💡 Did You Know?

NDVI compares red and near-infrared reflectance — healthy, flowering forage reflects strongly in the near-infrared, so a real precision-agriculture drone survey can flag good bee forage before a single hive is moved on site.

⚙ Under the hood

Fly a survey drone over a 3D landscape in a lawnmower pattern, reveal an NDVI forage-quality heatmap swath by swath, and see candidate apiary sites scored as good or poor forage once surveyed.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install