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Professional drone guides — page 2

EU regulations, real prices, mission preparation: concrete answers before commissioning a drone service.

• Drone Services in Charente-Maritime (17): La Rochelle, Oléron Oyster Farming, Nature Reserves, 2026 PricesOne aerodrome CTR, a military air base, 4 national nature reserves and Europe's leading oyster-farming basin: drone missions across Charente-Maritime, from La Rochelle to Oléron. 2026 method and prices (excl. VAT).
• High-stem cider orchards and drones: tree count, AOP rules, BCAE 8, pricesA high-stem cider orchard holds around 250 apple trees per hectare, scattered across grazed pasture. Drones can count them for AOP compliance — but that count never feeds into BCAE 8 hedgerow subsidies. Method and 2026 prices.
• Apple orchard and drone: vigor, bloom and scab, priceFrench apple production is forecast at 1.52 million tonnes in 2026 (-5% year-on-year), under the constant pressure of apple scab. What a drone flight detects on apple-orchard vigor, bloom and alternate bearing, and why scab stays out of reach of an aerial camera, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Agroforestry and Drones: Counting Trees, Measuring the Effect on Crops, PAC Tree Density, PriceA drone survey counts the trees on an agroforestry plot, measures their height and the effect of their shade on the neighbouring crop — a 2026 study even shows increased vigour near the trees. What it documents, why it never settles PAC eligibility on its own, 2026 prices.
• Contaminated Land and Drones: ICPE Decommissioning, Remediation Earthworks, PriceDecommissioning a classified industrial site, a remediation earthworks project: what a drone survey actually documents — excavated soil volumes, progress, containment works — and why it never replaces boreholes and lab analysis. 2026 prices.
• Roquefort AOP and drones: Causses dolines, the ageing cave drones can't enter, pricesOn the Grands Causses plateau, a drone maps the dolines and shafts that threaten the Roquefort AOP's sheep pasture. What it will never do: enter the Combalou's natural ageing cave. Method and 2026 prices.
• Apricot orchard and drone: bloom, spring frost and plum pox, priceFrench apricot production reached 104,600 t as of 1 June 2026 (+3% year-on-year), with opposite trends between the Rhône Valley (+22%) and Roussillon (-25%, excessive rainfall). What a drone flight detects on early bloom, frost and water stress in apricot orchards, and why only a lab test confirms a plum pox outbreak, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• CSRD and biodiversity (ESRS E4): what a drone survey brings as audit evidenceThe CSRD requires large companies to publish sustainability data checked by a statutory auditor or an independent third party. What the ESRS E4 biodiversity requirement expects from a drone survey, the Omnibus timetable and 2026 prices.
• Sollies Fig AOP and drones: irrigation, rust and the Medfly, pricesThe Sollies Fig AOP grows a single variety across 15 communes in the Var. What aerial mapping brings to irrigation and fig rust monitoring, its limits against the Mediterranean fruit fly, and 2026 prices.
• Timber roof framing and drones: what an aerial survey documents, decay and hidden wood-boring insects, priceA drone survey documents the roof covering, overhangs and ridge-line geometry of an old timber frame — but neither decay hidden beneath an intact covering nor wood-boring insects developing inside the timber can be detected from the air. What it brings, its limits, and 2026 prices.
• Esca and Grapevine Trunk Disease: What a Drone Survey Can Catch Before Sudden Vine Collapse, and Its Limits, PriceEsca and grapevine trunk diseases leave around 12% of French vineyards unproductive (IFV), for close to a billion euros in annual losses. What multispectral drone mapping can detect from foliar symptoms, why it can never confirm a vine is disease-free, 2026 prices.
• Strawberry and drone: field vigor, nursery verticillium screening, priceFrench strawberry rests on two distinct industries: around 3,780 ha of open-field fruit (South-West, Fraise du Périgord PGI) and plant nurseries on Sologne's sandy soils. What a drone flight brings on vigor, flowering frost and verticillium screening, and what it never does, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Peach and nectarine: water stress, bloom density and frost by drone, priceOccitanie accounts for 44% of French peach production (around 222,000 t expected in 2026), on an area that has still shrunk 7% in five years. What a drone flight brings on water stress, bloom and frost, and what it never detects, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Pear orchard and drone: vigor, bloom and fire blight, priceFrench pear production fell to 138,900 t in 2025 (-6% year-on-year), threatened by fire blight, a disease under mandatory control in France. What a drone flight detects on pear vigor and bloom, and why only a lab test confirms an outbreak, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Blueberry and drone: vigor mapping, irrigation and bird-netting inspection, priceFrench blueberry orchards are expanding fast (600 ha, record 2025 harvest). What a drone brings to young plantations: plant vigor, water stress, bird-netting checks. Research findings and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Privately built drones in professional use: the current regime and the 1 January 2027 deadlineA hand-built FPV rig or a custom-assembled agricultural carrier flies today outside the C0-C6 class system, on mass alone. That transitional regime specific to privately built drones ends on 1 January 2027: what a professional needs to plan for.
• Hail netting in orchards: drone integrity checks, what research shows, priceA hail net costs tens of thousands of euros per hectare and protects an entire harvest. What a drone flight checks on its structure, what research shows about imaging through netting, and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Soybean and drone: water-stress, sclerotinia and vigor mapping, priceFrench soybean acreage has plateaued around 150,000 ha, far short of the industry's 250,000 ha target for 2025. What thermal and multispectral drones genuinely bring against water stress and sclerotinia risk, use cases and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Protein pea and drone: vigor, lodging and aphanomyces mapping, priceFrench protein pea acreage fell to 98,000 ha in 2025, down from 700,000 ha in 1993, hit hard by aphanomyces root rot. What drone mapping brings on vigor and lodging, and what it can never diagnose, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Onions and drones: detecting downy mildew before it destroys the crop, method and priceOnion downy mildew (Peronospora destructor) can destroy an entire canopy within a month and cut yield by 70%. What two studies document on drone-based detection and mapping, and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Drone services in the Bouches-du-Rhône (13): Marseille, Fos, the Calanques and the Camargue — zones, missions and 2026 pricesA peri-urban national park where overflight below 1,000 metres is banned, 44 upper-tier Seveso sites around the Étang de Berre, two military air bases and an airport handling 11 million passengers. What a professional drone can really do in the Bouches-du-Rhône, with 2026 prices (excl. VAT).