A single drone flight over your land maps what the soil is made of, how stony, how clay-heavy, and how naturally fertile, across every square metre. No digging, no waiting weeks for lab results.
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Walk from one end of a field to the other and the soil underneath rarely stays the same. Some patches are stonier and drain fast; others hold clay that keeps water and nutrients around for longer. That difference quietly shapes crop vigor, disease pressure, and how a plot ripens, long before you'd notice from above ground.
A drone can pick up the same faint, completely natural signal every soil gives off, and turn it into a detailed map: how much of the ground is stone versus clay, and where natural potassium, a key nutrient for crops, is concentrated. It's the same underlying idea as a soil lab test, just covering the whole property in one flight instead of a handful of dug-up samples.
What this tells you
Where the ground drains well and where it stays wet, useful for deciding where fungal disease pressure will be worst in a damp spring. Where natural fertility is already high, so you don't over-fertilise it, and where it's low, so you don't under-serve it. And, for new plantings, which parts of a plot are actually suited to your crop before you commit years of growth to finding out the hard way.
A continuous map of stone, clay, and natural fertility across the whole property, not just a handful of sample points.
Target supplementary feeding to the zones that actually need it, instead of applying the same amount everywhere.
Spot the wet, clay-heavy pockets most likely to favour fungal disease before a damp season turns them into a problem.
A drone flight covers a whole property for a fraction of the cost of conventional soil sampling, no pits to dig, no samples to send to a lab, no weeks of waiting for results.
Flying as low as 25 metres, the drone can read the soil signal even through tree or scrub cover, so you can evaluate a wooded plot's potential before spending anything on clearing it.
Our first pilots happen to be vineyards, but the method reads any soil the same way, whether it's under vines, orchard trees, olive groves, or field crops.
An established Bairrada producer, known for its Baga-based reds and long track record with the region's clay-limestone soils.
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A Souselas estate dealing with heterogeneous clay-limestone soil and high Atlantic humidity, where drainage and phytosanitary decisions are especially soil-dependent.
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Left: Soil variability and fertility readings for Luís Pato Wines. Right: soil-variability readings across Prior Lucas's Souselas plot.
No boots-on-the-ground sampling, no weeks-long lab turnaround.
A single flight, as low as 25 metres, covers the whole property, including wooded or overgrown ground that hasn't been cleared yet, and terrain that's awkward to sample by hand.
The natural signal the ground gives off is translated into stone/clay composition and natural fertility zones.
A lasting reference for planting, drainage, and fertiliser decisions, the ground doesn't change from one week to the next.
We're taking on new pilot sites alongside Luís Pato and Prior Lucas.