Drone management applied to precision agriculture
Description
Registration for the online course "Drone Management Applied to Precision Agriculture" is open until October 5, 2025. It will be held from October 6 to 29, 2025 .
Organized by the University of Seville , this course seeks to provide farmers, ranchers, advisors, and technicians in the agri-food sector with the tools and skills needed to incorporate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into farm management, within the framework of digitalization and precision agriculture.
Training objectives
- Understand UAVs and their operating and piloting principles, as well as current regulations.
- Learn key aspects of flight: preflight inspection, takeoff, basic maneuvers, altitude control, and imaging device management.
- Getting into image mosaicking and prescription map generation.
- Explore drone applications in precision agriculture : input management, irrigation scheduling, crop monitoring, weed control, and early disease detection.
- Integrate prescription maps into agricultural machinery , optimizing the use of inputs.
- Obtain advanced theoretical qualification for the use of drones in agriculture .
Skills to be acquired
- Basics: drone regulations and rules in Spain.
- General: analytical and decision-making capacity compared to other technologies.
- Transversals: interpretation of images from UAVs.
- Specific: creation of prescription maps to optimize resources.
Recipients
The course is aimed at farmers, ranchers, technicians and advisors , as well as professionals from cooperatives, agricultural organizations, business associations, rural development groups, technology centers and public administration .
With this training, the University of Seville is committed to promoting the digitalization of the agri-food sector , providing professionals with the necessary tools to improve the profitability, sustainability, and competitiveness of their farms.