Drones help plant researchers detect soybean dicamba damage from the sky
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 14:06
in Earth & Climate
Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide's label rate—simulating vapor drift—eight days after application. This advancement in remote sensing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides a science-based tool to accurately detect and report crop damage at the field scale, reducing human error and bias.