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Article: Pixels and Potatoes ... and mint and hops and grapes; Valley farmers are using multispectral imaging to spy on their fields from 10,000 feet up
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- April 17, 2003
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VOICES CORRESPONDENT
WAPATO - Farmers these days are into pictures.
These pictures are made up of 1.5 million red pixels, taken from
10,000 feet up with infrared equipment that's not unlike the gadgets
that American U-2 planes use for spying on Iraq.
Yes, it's come to this: Farmers are spying on their crop plants.
And that, in the estimate of agronomist Don Jameson, "is a
spectacular change."
Jameson has worked as a consultant for Yakima Valley growers for
30 years at Agrimanagement Inc., a Yakima firm he started buying out
17 years ago and now owns. This ongoing technology makes possible a
degree of farming precision that nobody even dreamed of a generation
ago, he noted.
Take this aerial ...