Research Progress of Drones in Precision Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jlsa.202607205
Author(s)
Zikun Xia
Affiliation(s)
School of Mechanical Engineering, Beihua University, Jilin, China
Abstract
As global agriculture transitions towards refinement, efficiency, and greenness, precision agriculture has become the core path to address the pain points of traditional agriculture. Drones, with their advantages of high mobility, low cost, and adaptability to complex farmlands, have become key supporting tools for precision agriculture. This paper focuses on the research progress of drones in precision agriculture, using literature review, comparative analysis, and inductive deduction methods to systematically sort out the technological evolution context in the three core dimensions of platform technology optimization, sensor data collection, and intelligent decision-making breakthroughs, and compare the differences in technical routes, scenario adaptation, and cost control between domestic and foreign studies. Analyze existing bottlenecks such as insufficient positioning accuracy in complex environments and inefficient multi-source data fusion, and evaluate the adaptation effects of recent research hotspots such as Beidou/GNSS + visual SLAM and deep learning models. The study identified the laws of technological evolution and the causes of differences at home and abroad, defined the key constraints of each bottleneck and the application boundaries of hot technologies, provided theoretical references for the localization of core technologies, the generalization of cross-scenario algorithms, and the construction of full-process automated closed loops, facilitated the deep integration of unmanned aerial vehicle technology and precision agriculture, and promoted the improvement of agricultural quality and efficiency and green development.
Keywords
Unmanned Aircraft; Precision Agriculture; Technological Advances; Localization Adaptation; Bottleneck Breakthrough
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