Agricultural Drones Research Paper

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2a. The computing innovation shown in my computational artifact is agricultural drone. Agricultural drones are cost-efficient drones with the ability to monitor crops. With these drones, farmers are able to save more money over time than other solutions. The artifact begins with explaining what agricultural drones are and the benefits of using agricultural drones. Using an agricultural drone, farmers can monitor their crops and in turn apply fertilizer, water, or chemicals when needed. This monitoring can also show crop health and allows the farmers to check for signs of disease within the crops. This saves time for the farmers and increases the amount they can produce. The artifact goes on to show possible negatives of the drones, examples of drones, and farmer’s adoption of drones.

2b. The website I used is called Adobe Spark. After researching the information, I decided to
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One benefit of agricultural drones is that they are allow farmers to monitor their crops and gather data. With this data farmers can apply fertilizer, pesticides, or water when a crop requires it. The data also allows farmers to check the health of their crops. Instead of a farmers walking to a crop to monitor it and gather the data, they can have the drone do the work faster and save time. With the drones, farmers can increase the amount of crops they can produce in a given time due to their efficiency and the time saved. With more and more farmers using drones, we can see an increase in the economy because of the extra food produced. One negative factor of agricultural drones is that they are rather expensive with a base drone costing $500 and a top end drone costing $2000. This high initial investment may turn off some farmers to the idea of agricultural drones. Also farmers require training to operate drones safely. Since 37% of farmers are not using these drones because of these issues, the economy could see a small dip because they cannot produce as much as farmers with