Capabilities
Every tool AeroTerraX deploys is designed to answer one question:
what is actually driving performance on your land - and what is getting in the way.
RGB / Multispectral Drone Imaging
Onsite Soil Testing
Three Layers. One Complete Picture.
A standard aerial photo shows you what your land looks like. That is useful, but it is only the beginning. AeroTerraX flies your property with a multispectral sensor that captures three distinct data layers simultaneously — each one revealing something the others cannot.
RGB (Red, Green, Blue) gives you a true-color, high-resolution orthomosaic of your entire property. Every field, fence line, water source, and structure documented at a known date and resolution no satellite image can match.
NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) measures photosynthetic activity across your canopy. Areas where vegetation is actively growing appear clearly separated from areas where it is struggling — giving you a productivity map of your entire operation in a single flight.
NDRE (Normalized Difference Red Edge) goes further. By measuring the red-edge band, it detects chlorophyll stress before it becomes visible to the eye or shows up in NDVI. That early warning matters — a stressed pasture zone identified in spring can be addressed before it costs you a grazing rotation.
Together these three layers do not just show you what your land looks like. They show you how it is performing and where the problems are hiding.
What Is Happening Below the Surface Is Driving What You See Above It.
Soil is not just a growing medium. It is a biological system, and its physical condition determines whether water, nutrients, and roots move freely or do not move at all.
Healthy soil is loose, biologically active, and infiltrates water deep into the profile. Roots extend freely, organic matter feeds the microbial community, and moisture is available to plants through dry periods. This is soil that responds to management investments.
Compacted soil tells a different story. A hardpan layer — sometimes as shallow as eight to ten inches — acts as a physical barrier. Roots stop there. Water cannot infiltrate and runs off instead of recharging the profile. Even if nutrients are present above the compaction layer, the plant cannot reach what it needs below it. Fertilizer applied to compacted ground is often wasted investment.
AeroTerraX tests for compaction at every soil sample location using a penetrometer, mapping compaction severity spatially across your property. If compaction is your limiting factor, you will know it — and more importantly, you will know where, how severe, and what to address first before spending money on inputs that will not perform.