Drone crop spraying in Oceanside.
Strata UAV flies aerial application and crop mapping across Oceanside — home of the San Luis Rey River valley's flower and nursery grounds, in San Diego County. From our Carlsbad base we spray cut flowers, nursery & ornamentals, avocados, and row vegetables on the groves and fields around San Luis Rey, Bonsall, and Vista, with even-coverage or variable-rate application flown under FAA Part 137 and a California Qualified Applicator License.
The San Luis Rey valley is where coastal North County still farms at scale — flower grounds and nursery blocks on the river flats, avocado hills rising toward Bonsall, all of it under a marine layer that hands us calm morning air. We fly it on logged RTK plans, with flight planning that respects Oceanside Municipal's traffic and the Camp Pendleton boundary to the north. You keep your PCA and supply the product; we bring the aircraft and the licensed pilot.
- cut flowers
- nursery & ornamentals
- avocados
- row vegetables
What Oceanside growers ask us
Can you fly this close to Oceanside Municipal and Camp Pendleton?
Yes. Every job starts with an airspace check — we work around the airport's traffic pattern and stay clear of Pendleton's restricted areas, with authorization wherever a block requires it. For us that's standard procedure, not an obstacle.Can you treat cut-flower and nursery blocks without beating up tender crop?
That's a matter of flying the right plan — release height and droplet size set for the crop, speed and swath logged on RTK so coverage is even instead of doubled-up. High-value ornamentals are exactly where precise, repeatable passes pay for themselves.Do you work the avocado hills between Oceanside and Bonsall?
All the time — that's contiguous with our Fallbrook and Bonsall home turf. Terrain-following passes hold height up and down the slopes that put ground rigs and hand crews at risk.
- Fallbrook
- Valley Center
- Ramona
- Escondido
- Temecula
- Bonsall
- Vista
- Pauma Valley
- Carlsbad
- El Centro
- Brawley
- Holtville
- Indio
- Corona
- San Jacinto
- Irvine
- San Juan Capistrano
Proudly serving San Diego, Riverside, Imperial, and Orange counties. See the crops we fly or browse our services.