Hunter killer autonomous weed drones have to be the future.

Fly the field and record the reflectance imagery, upload for processing, and then apply a prescription vs onboard camera ID of certain weed species.  Machine learning from camera images is supposedly a fairly advanced data science.  How much processing power does it take?  I don’t know but someone does.

Hooking up a local weather station can’t be hard, identifying flight hazards and telemetry for remote/automated approvals of the air space can’t be overly complex, and some sort or docking station with automated recharge, sparge/refill can’t be all that hard either.  As cheap as these drones look to be able to be built, throughput seems like a much smaller issue for a significantly more automated system from multiple depot locations than seems to be the current use case of fully employing one or more people to feed a set of drones from a trailer that goes all around everywhere.  The irrigation guys are going to be way ahead on infrastructure because they have one or more power sources in every section than dryland guys.  Roll your docking station trailer up to your electrical panel and hook in, mix up a few totes of chem, and click the go button.