Drone crop spraying in El Centro.
Strata UAV flies aerial application and crop mapping across El Centro — the seat of the Imperial Valley's half-million irrigated acres, in Imperial County. From our Carlsbad base we spray alfalfa, winter lettuce & brassicas, onions & carrots, sugar beets, and sudangrass on the groves and fields around Imperial, Heber, and Seeley, with even-coverage or variable-rate application flown under FAA Part 137 and a California Qualified Applicator License.
Imperial Valley work is flat, fast, and unforgiving on timing — laser-leveled half-mile fields, back-to-back alfalfa cuttings, and winter vegetable schedules that turn a spray window into a matter of days. The T100 covers that ground without laying a wheel track, and RTK-logged swaths keep product on the block and off the IID canals, drains, and the neighbor's lettuce. You keep your PCA and supply the product; we bring the aircraft and the licensed pilot.
- alfalfa
- winter lettuce & brassicas
- onions & carrots
- sugar beets
- sudangrass
What El Centro growers ask us
How do you keep spray off the canals, drains, and neighboring fields?
Every pass is flown on RTK at a logged swath width, with the T100's centrifugal atomizers dialed to the droplet size the label and conditions call for — coarser near water and sensitive crops. We hold the label's buffer zones, fly to its wind limits, and hand you the GPS coverage map afterward, so there's a record of exactly where product went.When do you fly during Imperial Valley summers?
First light, mostly. We schedule to the wind and the heat, and quick battery and tank swaps let us use every workable minute of a cool morning. Where the label allows it, evening windows are on the table too.Can you treat alfalfa between cuttings?
That's the job this aircraft was built for. When your PCA calls a weevil or worm treatment between cuttings, we fly the window without putting wheels on soft, freshly irrigated ground — and without waiting for a ground rig to free up.
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