DJI Announces New Drones in China

New DJI drones in China

Accord­ing to the source, DJI Inno­va­tions in Chi­na has unveiled two new drones, the DJI Agras T40 and T20P. Both are designed for agri­cul­tur­al appli­ca­tions. High per­for­mance drones are opti­mized for appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios such as pre­ci­sion spray­ing, seed­ing, aer­i­al pho­tog­ra­phy and map­ping. See below for more details on each mod­el.

DJI Agras T40

DJI’s new flag­ship for dig­i­tal agri­cul­ture offers a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in effi­cien­cy over its pre­de­ces­sor, the Agras T30, which became avail­able inter­na­tion­al­ly ear­li­er this year.

*DJI Agras T40 Drone

Key Features

• The agri­cul­tur­al octo­copter (in X8 con­fig­u­ra­tion) Agras T40 boasts a seed­ing capac­i­ty of 50 kg and a spray­ing capac­i­ty of 40 kg. In an hour, this drone can apply 1.5 tons of urea or spray pes­ti­cides on a 130-hectare field. The drone is also equipped with omni­di­rec­tion­al radar and binoc­u­lar vision to detect obsta­cles up to 50 meters away, allow­ing it to fly in dif­fi­cult ter­rain such as orchard ter­races, spray­ing up to 24 hectares per hour of such land.
• The T40 has sev­er­al design improve­ments that pro­vide a more even spray, 3‑minute start-up, and improved strength and cor­ro­sion resis­tance. In addi­tion, the drone sup­ports real-time weight mon­i­tor­ing sen­sors for spray opti­miza­tion and accu­rate refu­el­ing alerts.
• DJI equipped the T40 with an ultra-high-def­i­n­i­tion cam­era and adjustable gim­bal so that the drone can col­lect real-time images of farm­land and orchards, build maps on the spot, and auto­mat­i­cal­ly detect site bound­aries and obsta­cles for intel­li­gent route plan­ning and effi­cient spraying/fertilization.
• Through the DJI Smart Agri­cul­ture Cloud Plat­form, users can auto­mate process­es such as field inspec­tion, crop growth analy­sis, and dis­ease mon­i­tor­ing. In addi­tion, pair­ing this sys­tem with the DJI P4 Mul­ti­spec­tral drone will allow farm­ers to apply vari­able-spe­cif­ic deci­sions accord­ing to an auto­mat­i­cal­ly gen­er­at­ed pre­scrip­tion map for farm­land.

*DJI Agras T40 Drone

Food

A new and improved DJI T40 Intel­li­gent Flight Bat­tery has been devel­oped with a capac­i­ty of 30,000 mAh, with an ultra-long life of up to 1500 cycles. It is report­ed that a spe­cial­ly designed smart charg­ing hub can ful­ly charge such a bat­tery in 9 min­utes.

DJI Agras T20P

T20P light agri­cul­tur­al quad­copter with 25kg seed­ing capac­i­ty and 20kg spray­ing. Unlike the T40, the DJI T20P can spread 1 ton of fer­til­iz­er or spray pes­ti­cides on a 73 hectare farm or 16 hectare orchard in one hour.

*DJI T20P Drone

Differences between models

In terms of rugged­ness, porta­bil­i­ty, flight safe­ty and real-time visu­al mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem, the T20P also incor­po­rates all the improve­ments that have been applied to the T40. With the excep­tion of the bat­tery, the drone is equipped with a 13,000 mAh intel­li­gent flight bat­tery, which can also be ful­ly charged in nine min­utes.

*DJI T20P Drone

Price and availability

Thus, the T40 and T20P rep­re­sent the flag­ship mod­els in the leg­endary line of Agras drones. In Chi­na, DJI is offer­ing the T40 with an esti­mat­ed start­ing price of $9,000, the T20 agri­cul­tur­al drone will have a start­ing price of around $6,200. More details will be avail­able once DJI is ready to release these drones inter­na­tion­al­ly.