Drone crop spraying in Carlsbad.
Strata UAV flies aerial application and crop mapping across Carlsbad — our headquarters, where the Flower Fields and the strawberry stands keep coastal farming alive between the lagoons, in San Diego County. From our Carlsbad base we spray cut flowers & ranunculus, strawberries, and nursery & greenhouse stock on the groves and fields around Encinitas, Vista, and San Marcos, with even-coverage or variable-rate application flown under FAA Part 137 and a California Qualified Applicator License.
Carlsbad is home plate — the aircraft are based here, so when a weather window opens over a flower or berry block between the lagoons, we can be on it the same day. These are small, high-value fields with neighborhoods, trails, and the I-5 corridor for an audience, and that's the kind of flying the T100's logged, drift-managed passes are built for. You keep your PCA and supply the product; we bring the aircraft and the licensed pilot.
- cut flowers & ranunculus
- strawberries
- nursery & greenhouse stock
What Carlsbad growers ask us
You're based in Carlsbad — what does that mean for scheduling?
The shortest response time on our map. No ferry to plan around, so short weather windows are usable — if the marine layer burns off into a calm hour, we can fly it. For time-sensitive treatments on high-value crops, that flexibility matters.Can you spray blocks this close to homes and the freeway?
Yes — coarse, drift-managed droplets, release height a few feet over the crop, label buffer zones, and a GPS log of every swath. Where a block sits under McClellan-Palomar's airspace we fly with authorization. Tight surroundings are the reason to fly precise, not a reason to skip the treatment.Is the crop-mapping side based here too?
Yes — the Mavic 3M multispectral aircraft flies out of Carlsbad as well. Mapping is a separate, paid scouting service: it finds the stressed zones, and the T100 acts on them with variable-rate application when your PCA calls for it.
- Fallbrook
- Valley Center
- Ramona
- Escondido
- Temecula
- Bonsall
- Vista
- Pauma Valley
- Oceanside
- El Centro
- Brawley
- Holtville
- Indio
- Corona
- San Jacinto
- Irvine
- San Juan Capistrano
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