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We have been working for two years with Canopée on a UAV application of parasitoids (Trichograms) to control corn borer in order to eliminate or reduce the use of chemical pesticides on agriculture. Throughout the project, Canopée was very present, responsive to our questions and our ideas, giving the feeling of a real collaborative work. We are particularly pleased with this collaboration which brings to Anatis a wind of modernity, what we were looking for. A big thank you to the team of Canopée for their professionalism and their availability.
Silvia Todorova, M.Sc., Ph.D., Anatis Bioprotection
The Canopée team has a unique expertise in the field of precision farming. We are delighted to do business with this team of professional and qualified experts.
Pascal Chiva-Bernard, Eng., ARA Robotique
We were impressed by the drive and ambition of the Canopée team. We collaborated with them on a corn borer predator application project and on a high precision microtopography project. They had enough leadership to form a team of agronomists, entomologists and land surveyors to advance in unchartered territory. We look forward to their future projects - they show much promise for our needs.
Jofroi Desperrier-Roux, Agr., Agri-Fusion

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Precision Pest Management:

Canopée is currently developing a complete aerodronautic platform for high-precision agricultural spreading, "Entobot". This research and development project, a world first, is conducted by Canopée in conjunction with MAPAQ, Anatis Bioprotection, l’IRDA, Natural Resources Canada, École de Technologie supérieure, CRSNG, ARA Robotique and many other partners.

Beginning in 2016, the first two components of this development project focused on improving current methods of releasing beneficial insects in pest control. Experimental spreading from the new Entobot system allowed for the release of trichogramma over sweet corn to control european corn borer and mixed boreal forests to control spruce budworm.

This use of Canopée's new UAV application system allows producers and forest operators who already use other insect release methods to save costs and increase their efforts in biological control. In addition, thanks to the Canopée team's complete handling of the process, this new UAV release method will provide farmers and foresters with the opportunity to integrate bioprotection into their processes, replacing the use of pesticides.

Release of trichograms by drone in the biological control of corn borer.

A research project led by:
Anatis Bioprotection, IRDA

Partners:
MAPAQ - Center of Quebec
ÉTS / NSERC
ARA Robotics
FQPFLT
Bonduelle
Specialties Lassonde
CEROM
Thanks: Papeterie Saint-Armand

Application of trichogramma ¹

400k

Eggs / Ha

0,5

Hr endurance

20

Ha / hour

0

Pesticides

¹Based on the analyzes of the research project "Lâchers de trichogrammes par drones, une nouvelle approche pour lutter contre la pyrale du maïs dans le maïs sucré de transformation".

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Counting and analysis of plant height

Counting crops at high levels of accuracy on the ground takes a long time. Even manual counting from images can become dizzying and can not provide reliable results.

To solve this problem, an algorithm has been developed to automatically count crops using specialized image analysis software. The resulting number of crops can be supplied in different files formats and can be imported into any GIS viewer.

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In corn, for example, plant height can be an indicator of yield and other parameters because it is strongly influenced by soil, temperature and light intensity.

To solve this problem, we developed a comparative analysis method to evaluate the height of the plants by comparison in visible and infrared imaging. The result is provided as an elevation map