30 Years Of Experience In The Air Andrew, it sounds like you’ve been with Skymatics since early days, what's your history with the company? I met EJ and Connor in the winter of 2014 and chatted about how to utilize UAV’s to service many different industries including agriculture and construction. In the spring of 2014, we started [...]
This week our team went on a field trip to Lacombe, Alberta for a canola conference, CanolaPalooza. We’ve always got drones in mind, so how else can we use them in agriculture? This outdoor event was at the Lacombe Research and Development Center in Alberta. The best research and agronomy experts gathered for [...]
Skymatics + TerrAvion Skymatics is excited to announce our new partnership with TerrAvion. This brings our analytics to Growers and Insurers through the capture of high-quality aerial imagery. Skymatics is a bridge between imagery and information, providing customers timely information to help them make profitable decisions in all aspects of their operations. Our product, [...]
How to put the sure in Crop InsuranceIt all started because farmers who love Precision Ag wanted more. Can you measure how much damage is in my field? This is how SkyClaim was born.Unlike other forms of insurance, farms can have multiple policies with multiple insurers on one field. When a claim is made, [...]
When do you need to go beyond NDVI? What IS NDVI? The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI, has become a common term in precision agriculture. If you have ever seen drone or satellite imagery made for farm field management then you have likely seen the green-yellow-red false-colored NDVI images of fields. The NDVI [...]
SkyClaim uses computer vision and AI to improve the way insurers look at crop loss CALGARY, CANADA (June 21, 2018) - Today, Skymatics, the Calgary-based technology company, announced the launch of their crop damage mapping tool, SkyClaim. Developed to bring value to farmers by highlighting crop loss across a whole field, this new [...]
Our technical experts, Vadim Deryabin and Nikoo Sabzevar, are shaking up the office. They took over the role of interviewer and placed Samantha Malach, our Co Founder in the hot seat. ‘Now it’s our turn to ask the questions. We enjoyed talking to her and surely you will enjoy reading it.’ Do you [...]
Get value from your drone | Drainage We all know that drones are a great tool on the farm, but are they earning their keep? Drones gather valuable data for everything from earthworks and crop management to hydrology and drainage mapping. The goal of drainage management is to improve the root-zone environment to [...]
There are a lot of uses for UAVs in the agriculture sector. Drones are proving to be a useful tool for seeing entire fields in one image. As the industry evolves, a number of companies have built tools that deliver results based on the same approach. How can you get insights from your [...]
Vadim Deryabin is the lead developer at Skymatics. Born and raised in Russia, he received his Engineering Degree from the Ural Federal University before immigrating to Canada. Along with being a chemical engineer, he is a software developer with experience in multiple industries. Vadim, you have an engineering degree, but all the skills of a software [...]
