Ag drones. Precision application.
Precision aerial application for Southern California growers — avocado, citrus, wine grapes, berries, nursery, and row crops. If it grows in Southern California, we fly it. Uniform coverage on every pass, with variable-rate prescriptions when your PCA calls for them.
A free demo means we bring the T100 to your property and you watch it fly your block — no charge, no obligation.
Booked in three steps.
Hiring a drone to spray your crops is simpler than most growers expect. No contract to get started, no equipment to buy — just three steps from your first call to a finished, documented application.
Most quotes turn around in days — start before your spray window closes.
- Step 01
Book a free demo
Call, email, or send us your block and crop. We schedule a visit, bring the drone out to your property, and fly a live demo over part of your field — so you see the coverage with your own eyes before spending a dollar.
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Get a written quote
After the demo we send a clear, written price per acre for your crop, your acreage, and your terrain. Our rates are published up front — no hidden fees, no hard sell, no back-and-forth.
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We fly your job
We schedule around your spray window and fly the application. Every job comes back with a coverage map and a job report alongside your invoice — proof of exactly what we treated, acre by acre.
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Every aerial spray application your block needs.
Pesticide, fungicide, fertilizer, and seeding — flown from Carlsbad across San Diego, Riverside, Imperial, and Orange counties, with one provider for all of it. Fixed rate or variable rate, we fly both.
You keep your PCA and supply the product — we bring the aircraft and the licensed pilot.
Growers we work with.
Strata UAV flies the specialty and field crops that define Southern California agriculture — across four counties, from North County's hillside groves to the Imperial Valley floor. Here's the ground we cover and the top crops we treat in each.
- HILLSIDE GROVELIVENorth County groves, nurseries & berries
San Diego County
Our home base. Hillside avocado and citrus, the Fallbrook–Escondido nursery and cut-flower belt, and coastal berry ground — much of it on slopes a ground rig can't safely work.
- Avocado
- Citrus
- Nursery & cut flowers
- Strawberries & berries
- Tomatoes & row crops
- Herbs & leafy greens
Fallbrook · Bonsall · Valley Center · Pauma · Ramona · Escondido - TEMECULA VINEYARDLIVETemecula wine country & Coachella dates
Riverside County
Multispectral vigor mapping for Temecula Valley vineyards, tall-canopy date palms in the Coachella Valley, and the Corona–Norco citrus belt where ground rigs run out of room.
- Wine grapes
- Table grapes
- Dates
- Citrus
- Avocado
- Nursery & cut flowers
Temecula Valley · Coachella Valley · Corona–Norco · San Jacinto - IMPERIAL VALLEYLIVEImperial Valley row crops & forage
Imperial County
Flat-field scale and tight spray windows — alfalfa and winter vegetables through cotton and sugar beets, with controlled-drift application near canals, urban edges, and sensitive habitat.
- Alfalfa & hay
- Lettuce & leafy greens
- Onions & cole crops
- Carrots & root veg
- Sugar beets
- Cotton
- Sweet corn & wheat
El Centro · Brawley · Holtville · Calexico · Westmorland · Niland - COASTAL FLOWER FARMLIVECoastal nurseries & specialty crops
Orange County
Coastal nursery and cut-flower blocks, strawberries, and south-county avocado and citrus — precise, low-drift application close to dense suburban edges.
- Nursery & cut flowers
- Strawberries
- Avocado
- Citrus
- Specialty row crops
Irvine · San Juan Capistrano · coastal Orange County
Not sure if we work your crop? Call us — if it grows in Southern California, we probably fly it.
Precision spraying, when you want it.
Most jobs are straightforward, even-coverage spraying across the whole block — and that's what most crops need. When your crop or your PCA (your pest-control adviser) asks for it, we can also fly variable rate. First we map the field with a crop-health camera that picks up plant stress the eye can't see — multispectral imaging — which becomes a color-coded health map (NDVI), then a prescription the T100 sprays zone by zone: more where the field needs it, less or none where it doesn't. Terrain-following Lidar keeps every pass accurate across hillside contours and dense canopy that ground rigs treat as one undifferentiated block.
Scroll to reveal the prescription map.
Sample flight · same field in RGB and NDVI. A real Strata UAV scout of your block produces both layers plus a written prescription map for the T100.
One map. Three wins.
Before-and-after on every pass.
Hit the red, skip the green.
Spot stress weeks earlier.
The platform.
Industrial-grade DJI Agras hardware, terrain-following Lidar, and centimeter-grade RTK — purpose-built for precision aerial application across Southern California crops, fixed-rate or variable.
DJI Agras T100
26-gallon (100-liter) liquid tank, 150-liter spread hopper with a 100-kilogram payload, dual centrifugal atomization with adjustable 50–500 µm droplets, coaxial twin-rotor airframe, LiDAR perception paired with front/rear/down phased-array radar and a quad-vision system, centimeter RTK.
- Spray tank
- 26 gal · 100 L
- Spread payload
- 150 L · 100 kg
- Spray width
- up to 43 ft · 13 m
- Flight speed
- 45 mph · 20 m/s
- Atomization
- Dual centrifugal
- Obstacle sensing
- LiDAR + Radar + Vision
DJI Mavic 3M
20 MP mechanical-shutter RGB camera paired with four dedicated multispectral bands and an onboard sunlight-irradiance sensor for calibrated readings flight to flight.
- RGB sensor
- 20 MP, 4/3"
- Shutter
- Mechanical
- Multispectral
- G · R · RE · NIR
- RTK accuracy
- ~1 cm + 1 ppm
- Flight time
- 43 min
- Mapped per battery
- ≈494 ac
Transparent pricing.
We publish our rates because growers shouldn't have to guess. Every job gets a written quote tailored to your acreage, terrain, and application — but here's where we start.
Drag to size your job.
Smarter spraying. Better yields.
Send the block, the crop, and the timing. We'll set up a free on-site demo and send back a written quote — proudly serving Southern California.
- We'll reply within 24 hours
- Free on-site demoWe fly your block. No obligation, no hard-sell.
- Re-fly guaranteeGaps re-flown at no charge.
Tell us about your block.
Details help us scope the job accurately the first time — no back-and-forth.
Answers before you pick up the phone.
The questions growers ask us most. Don't see yours here? Call or email — we reply the same day.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. Strata UAV holds FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certification, an FAA Section 44807 exemption to operate aircraft over 55 pounds like the Agras T100, and FAA Part 137 Agricultural Aircraft Operator certification. On the California side we carry a DPR Qualified Applicator License and the Unmanned Pest Control Aircraft Pilot certificate, plus aviation liability insurance — we can provide certificates naming you as additionally insured on request.What crops do you work on?
We fly the specialty and field crops that define Southern California agriculture — avocado, citrus, wine and table grapes, dates, berries, nursery and cut flowers, and everything from tomatoes and leafy greens to alfalfa, onions, carrots, sugar beets, and cotton. If your crop isn't on that list and it grows in Southern California, give us a call — we probably fly it.What's included in the free demo?
We bring the DJI Agras T100 out to your property and fly a live demonstration over a section of your block, so you can see exactly how it moves, how evenly it covers, and how it handles your terrain — at no cost, no obligation to book. Afterward we follow up with a written per-acre quote for the program you're considering. It's how we prove the value of what we do before you spend a dollar.