and it’s hard to detect species in the canopy. Drones have been around for a while, why is your new work more successful? With drones you get a perspective you couldn’t previously get.

Tall trees with epiphytes, light gaps to fly the drone up and around and a few clear paths through the canopy. They got some shots that had never been done before and show the jungle the way a ...

Squinting through the morning sun, Jesse Patrick watches the top of his corn crop whip in the downdraft of a large spray drone pipping fungicides into the canopy. “The drone is only putting out ...