Understanding Grid & Zones
Your Plant Health map may be as detailed as a few centimeters per pixel. Management zones make the highly detailed agricultural maps into more manageable datasets by grouping similar regions (either geographically or visually) within a field. Categorizing your area of interest according to a range of values can lead to better understanding of overall crop health.
The Grid option geographically groups the plant health map into larger pixels to to help manage the areas with poor plant health that may require more attention.
The Zone option groups the health of the plants by distinguishing areas in three contrasting visual categories, and can be tailored to suit specific thresholds you set in the histogram.
Use the DroneDeploy Grid & Zones tool to:
- Designate ranges of "healthy" and "unhealthy" according to your own knowledge of your field
- Ground truth more effectively
- Sample areas that are meaningful within your external software
Using Grid and Zones
Follow the steps below to access DroneDeploy agricultural management tools.
1. Press the arrow next to your Plant Health Layer
Plant Health option is located on the left-hand side panel under "Explore" to expand the your Plant Health toolbox.
2. Turning ON Grid
The Grid option converts the plant health map into square pixels of roughly 50 ft.
3. Turning ON Zones
This tool turns your map into three regions. You can tune the range of index values according to your plant health requirements by moving the blue dots on the slider. This should be done in conjunction with ground-truthing to ensure that the results are consistent with what's happening in the field.
4. Turning ON Zones + Grid
With selecting both zone and grid option, you get a grid of three zones. Again, you can tune the range under the histogram to reflect the correct thresholds.