Impact of sprayer drone flight height on droplet spectrum in mountainous coffee plantation
ABSTRACT Weather conditions and sprayer operating parameters influence spray quality. Unmanned aerial vehicles are considered a modern, useful, and very efficient technological tool in the application of pesticides, as they carry out punctual spraying, and reduce environmental and public health prob...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Revista brasileira de engenharia agrícola e ambiental 2022-12, Vol.26 (12), p.901-906 |
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Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT Weather conditions and sprayer operating parameters influence spray quality. Unmanned aerial vehicles are considered a modern, useful, and very efficient technological tool in the application of pesticides, as they carry out punctual spraying, and reduce environmental and public health problems. The objective of this study was to characterize the spraying quality carried out with an unmanned aerial vehicle as a function of flight height and target position in a coffee plantation in a mountainous region. Three flight heights (2.5, 3.0, and 4.0 m) were used, and the targets were placed at the top and bottom of the plant. For each plant, six water sensitive papers were placed on top of the plant and six were placed at the bottom. CIR 1.5 software was applied to determine the coverage percentage, drop density, volume median diameter, volumetric diameter corresponding to 10 and 90%, numerical median diameter, and relative amplitude. The results showed that the flight height only influenced the parameters of the volumetric diameter corresponding to 10% of the volume, numerical median diameter, and coverage percentage. The target position on the canopy influenced all the evaluated spraying parameters. In mountainous coffee plantations, the spraying system using unmanned aerial vehicle spraying is more efficient for the lower part of the plant.
RESUMO Condições climáticas e parâmetros operacionais dos pulverizadores influenciam a qualidade da pulverização. Os veículos aéreos não tripulados são considerados uma ferramenta tecnológica moderna, útil e bastante eficiente na aplicação de defensivos agrícolas, uma vez que realizam pulverizações pontuais, reduzindo problemas ambientais e de saúde pública. O objetivo deste estudo foi caracterizar a qualidade da pulverização realizada com um veículo aéreo não tripulado em função da altura de voo e a posição do alvo em lavoura de café de região montanhosa. Utilizou-se três alturas de voo (2,5; 3,0; e 4,0 m) e os alvos foram colocados na parte inferior e superior da planta. Em cada planta utilizou-se 12 etiquetas de papel hidrossensível no total, seis para a parte inferior e seis para a parte superior. O software CIR 1.5 foi aplicado para determinar a porcentagem de cobertura, densidade de gotas, diâmetro da mediana volumétrica, diâmetro correspondente a 10 e 90% do volume, diâmetro mediano numérico e amplitude relativa. Os resultados mostraram que a altura de voo apenas influenciou os parâmetros diâmetro volumétric |
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ISSN: | 1415-4366 1807-1929 1807-1929 |
DOI: | 10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v26n12p901-906 |