Mapping Farmland Drainage Patterns With Drone LiDAR 

Split-screen comparison of a harvested Iowa field and a drone LiDAR elevation map showing hidden low spots and water flow paths for mapping farmland drainage patterns

Iowa fields look flat from the road. They aren’t. A field can drop three inches over sixty yards and you’d never see it standing at the edge. Those small dips decide where water sits, where it runs, and where your crop drowns after a hard rain. Drone LiDAR finds those dips before the rain does. […]