The Green Atlas Cartographer accurately detects and efficiently maps the density of buds, flowers and fruit. LiDAR simultaneously maps canopy leaf area, height and density.  

Our results are delivered as detailed heatmaps and basic statistics to help you understand the variation in your block. We also generate geo-referenced reports which can be used on a phone or tablet to navigate to areas of interest in the scan.  

Bud scans quantify fruiting sites which indicates whether winter pruning has been effective. Confirming correct bud numbers in winter helps to prevent unnecessary thinning costs later in the season.  

Flower and fruitlet scans help you make the best crop management decisions - ranking job priority and enable you to develop thinning strategies to achieve your targets with uniformity across the block.  

These flower and fruitlet scans also provide useful canopy information helping to deliver good fruit colour and quality. These canopy maps also can inform adjustment to spray calibrations.  

Fruit scans help you make any late adjustments to crop load, and collect further canopy information which can inform spray calibration and vigour control in the following season. These scans also provide accurate fruit numbers and fruit size for crop estimates.  

We provide Green Atlas scanning services across Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne, and are looking to expand to the Marlborough/Tasman region.
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Check out our scanning services for kiwifruit here

All scan results are made available through the Green Atlas Viewer on the Fruition Portal as well as pdf form for easy printing and sharing. The Green Atlas Viewer was developed to allow you to interact fully with the scan results, letting you find out what to know about each of your block.
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Features include:
- Adjusting the scale allowing you to highlight low and high cropping areas
- Changing the colour scheme of the map to suit your preference
- Seeing all blocks of an orchard in a single view for easy comparison
- Zooming in to get more detail on areas of interest
- Hovering over individual points to see the data collected in each image

Check the videos here to see more of what you can do with the Green Atlas Viewer.
         

Green Atlas scan data can be used to generate prescription maps for various variable rate applications. These could include targeted spraying of PGRs or other compounds to better address each tree's requirements. Other applications could be variable rate fertiliser, compost or root pruning tailored to the tree's needs. The quality of the data collected by the Cartographer allows for accurate and precise action to be taken with ease. 

Our prescription maps are compatible with most variable rate controllers currently in use, and our data is transformed easily into different formats meaning whatever kit you use, our maps will slot straight in. 

The real value of utilising prescription maps and variable rate is improving the quality of your crop and orchard, preventing wastage is just a bonus.
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We are developing Tagga to help take scan results from the screen to the field, making labour management and addressing variation simple.

Spraying the way, Tagga allows the client to determine the threshold for marking, and then marks your orchard on a per tree or per bay basis as to whether it requires attention. From there the instruction is simple, act where there is a mark, and walk past anything that is not marked.

It is our hope that Tagga will allow for both labour savings and improved crop outcomes for apple and kiwifruit growers.