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Professional drone guides — page 2

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

• Puy green lentils and drones: mapping uneven ripening, priceLentille verte du Puy AOP (Haute-Loire, France): what drone mapping documents on a lentil field's uneven ripening, and its limits after 2026's climate hazards. 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Illegal billboards and signage: drone mapping for local authorities, France's RLPi bylaw and priceA French local authority with an RLPi advertising bylaw must map non-compliant billboards and signs before issuing a formal notice (Art. L581-27). What a drone survey documents, its limits, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Reblochon AOP and drones: mapping alpine-pasture biomass after the 2026 drought, priceReblochon AOP (Haute-Savoie, Val d'Arly, France): what drone biomass mapping documents on alpine pasture after the 2026 drought derogation, and its limits. 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Malicious drone detection on a sensitive site: technologies, legal framework, priceRadar, radio-frequency, acoustic or optical: the technologies a company can legally install to detect an intruding drone, why neutralisation remains a state monopoly, and 2026 price ranges.
• Industrial tomato and drones: detecting blight, mapping vigour and water stress, priceA Mediterranean sector under strain in 2026 (early blight, falling yields): what multispectral and thermal drone mapping brings to industrial tomato growing, and where it stops. 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Burgundy mustard and drones: detecting flea beetles and aphids, mapping emergence, priceA sector in full revival (8,500 ha, 560 growers, Moutarde de Bourgogne PGI): what multispectral drone mapping brings against flea beetles and aphids on mustard seed crops, and where it stops. 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Espelette pepper PDO and drones: thrips, TSWV virus, vigour on small plots, priceA PDO grown on very small family plots (293 ha, 180 growers): what a multispectral flight brings against thrips and TSWV virus on Espelette pepper, and where it stops. 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• 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).