On February 19, INCRA, the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform, published Execution Standard No. 02, which certifies and establishes parameters for the use of drones in the georeferencing of rural properties. The news, eagerly awaited by the sector, was announced during an event in Brasília - DF where the results of the georeferencing carried out with the Institute's drones were presented: 2 units of the Echar 20C HA and 1 unit of the Nauru 500B HA, all manufactured by xmobots®.
Speaking at the event, Giovani Amianti, president of xmobots®, explained that the company has come a long way to develop HA (High Accuracy) technology, which guarantees the positional accuracy required by INCRA in drone georeferencing. " xmobots® has been involved in developing methodologies for rural georeferencing with drones since 2014. Over these years we have carried out several tests in large areas at no cost to the agency. At the start of this work, the mapping result was still classified as PEC B by Incra's cartography team. We made a huge engineering effort to develop HP (High Precision) Technology, which was improved until we reached HA (High Accuracy) Technology, thus meeting the PEC A requirements with a GSD (Ground Sample Distance) of 5 cm," explains Amianti. explains Amianti.
At the end of 2016, INCRA opened a bidding process for the acquisition of drones to be used in pilot projects that would attest to the quality of the cartographic products generated by the technology. xmobots® was the only company with equipment that met the Institute's technical requirements and won the tender. With the delivery of the equipment in 2017, INCRA began mapping work, the results of which served to officially validate the use of the technology. The technical pieces resulting from the mapping with the Echar 20C HA and Nauru 500B HA drones were presented to INCRA's Deliberative Committee, which approved the material and gave the go-ahead for the publication of the Execution Standard.
"The standard exceeded our expectations. Initially, the expectation was that drone technology could only be used on public land, but the Standard ended up covering any type of property. We expected some types of vertex to be severely limited, but the regulation ended up accepting any vertex as long as it can be visualized. In this way, I believe that the Implementing Regulation meets society's desire for an efficient georeferencing method that guarantees high productivity. It was very well drafted and brings a new opportunity to the sector," adds the president of xmobots®.
Regarding the Standard's requirement to collect 5 control points and 20 check points for the use of drones in the georeferencing of properties, he points out that without HA technology, this number could be exponentially higher if the images are captured with equipment whose positional accuracy does not meet Incra's requirements.
"Using the equipment that Incra has used is an important indication that the result of the work will have a high chance of being accepted by the agency," Amianti concludes.
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