The Green Atlas Cartographer is an innovative combination of hardware and software that allows flower and fruit counts to be quickly and accurately mapped over entire orchards. With high resolution Artificial Intelligence assisted mapping, our customers know every block and every tree, to help manage the life cycle from flower to fruit.
Watch the Cartographer system in action! This video provides an overview of how scanning is performed in your orchard or vineyard; and the high resolution, high quality results you can expect, providing actionable insight for every tree.
Green Atlas’ orchard scanning platform, Cartographer, captures extremely high resolution data everywhere, to make every tree, flower and fruit count. And it’s fast! At up to 15 acres per hour, it’s easy to scan alongside other farm activity.
Know the relative performance of different blocks, comparing overall yield and the evenness of the distribution. Know how well your thinning program worked and adapt for next year.
Know the variability within each block. Determine management zones to address variability and achieve consistency every year.
Go beyond 2D and know the performance of the lower and upper canopy. The trees on the right are one year older and bear more fruit up top, while the lower canopy has been managed evenly. Predict the increased harvest labor with more fruit in the upper canopy. During flowering, manage the different timing of lower and upper canopy bloom.
Zoom in and know exactly what’s going on like Google Street View™ for the orchard. Visually inspect high resolution color images anywhere.
Cartographer uses LiDAR to measure tree canopy geometry throughout the orchard. This includes tree height, canopy area/volume and canopy density. Define treatment zones or make informed spray and pruning decisions throughout the season! Top right: apple tree volume; Bottom right: wine grape vine volume.
The Cartographer has been busy working with multiple crop types including Apples, Almonds, Cherries, Kiwifruit and Wine Grapes across the spectrum of fruit lifecycle, from flowering to mature fruit, and in the case of almonds, post-harvest to map ‘mummified’ nuts left on the trees. More than 80,000 acres of tree-crops have been scanned to-date! Green Atlas is expanding to pears and stone fruit in this coming season. Watch this space as Green Atlas expands its services even further in 2021!