1. AERIAL CROP DIAGNOSTICS

2. PROBLEM Food demand will increase 70% by 2050
Farming is still very inefficient:
Yield per acre can vary 400% within single field
$20B in fertilizer is wasted each year
10-20% yield increase potential in US crops
Diseases cause $33B in crop loss despite $12B spent on pesticides
With an exponentially growing world population, the agriculture industry must deliver more food with less water and on less farm land.
Aerial imaging from drones enable a new sophisticated science of farming, called precision agriculture.

3. REVOLUTION “It’s not your grandfather’s farm anymore.”
“We’re witnessing a new farming revolution triggered by the adoption of staggering new technologies combined with high-tech engineering”
- Precision Farming: the New Agricultural Revolution
With an exponentially growing world population, the agriculture industry must deliver more food with less water and on less farm land.
Aerial imaging from drones enable a new sophisticated science of farming, called precision agriculture.
For more than 10,000 years people have cultivated crops using trial and error, received wisdom and how the soil feels when they rub it between their fingers. Only recently in history, mechanisation revolutionised the countryside with machinery and replaced horses with tractors.
Nowadays, we’re witnessing a new farming revolution triggered by the adoption of staggering new technologies combined with high-tech engineering.
"Precision Farming: the New Agricultural Revolution"
“It’s not your grandfather’s farm anymore.”

4. PRECISION AGRICULTURE
By generating detailed insights, farmers can make data-based decisions that will optimize yield and boost revenue while minimizing expenses and the chances of crop failure

5. SKYSQUIRREL SOLUTION
We provide data analytics for precision agriculture
NASA technology for finding water on Mars applied to drone imaging
Allows precise monitoring of crop health
Current focus on vineyards

6. Commercial vineyards:
MARKET
Global wine market:
$85B
Vineyard acreage:
19M
Commercial vineyards:
80K+
High value crop: $20k – $150k per acre in wine revenue
Crop consultants widely used for specialized services

7. AQWEOTM QR-100 DRONE PLATFORM
TECHNOLOGY
SkySquirrel’s Integrated turn-key solution:
proprietary camera
image processing cloud service
Autonomous drone platform
Main focus on high quality imaging data
IMAGE PROCESSING
PATENTED CAMERA
DRONE PLATFORM
AQWEOTM QR-100 DRONE PLATFORM

8. TECHNOLOGY QUANTATM DRONE CAMERA SYSTEM Patent pending
Narrow band multi-spectral imaging
Sees beyond visible spectrum
Customizable optical filters for different applications
IMAGE PROCESSING
PATENTED CAMERA
DRONE PLATFORM
QUANTATM DRONE CAMERA SYSTEM

9. TECHNOLOGY DRONEFUSETM CLOUD
IMAGE PROCESSING
PATENTED CAMERA
DRONE PLATFORM
SkySquirrel’s online image processing service
Implements NASA technology and 12 years experience
Exclusively licensed and unique software algorithms for:
Calibrated vigor mapping
Leafroll Disease detection
Water stress measurements

10. PAIN Wine production focus is on improving quality
Grape quality inconsistent across vineyard (disease, variations)
Leafroll Disease is $10B problem
Current solutions inadequate:
Timing
Resolution
Precision
Major driving force is brand equity

11. VALUE PROPOSITION Leafroll Disease Quality No treatment options
Causes loss of $10k - $16k per acre
Requires replanting of entire vineyard if not managed
30%-60% of global vineyards affected
Losses can be reduced to $0 - $3k per acre with our data
Quality
Divide grapes into quality zones for separate harvesting
Increase quality consistency
Difference between high/low quality wine $10-$40k per acre

12. CURRENT STATUS Product Launched in December 2014
Ten paying early adopter clients
$150k in sales in first 6 months after launch
$10k in data processing revenue
Products used at top vineyards in France (Grand Cru) and British Columbia (Mission Hill)
Research collaborations in Canada, France, Chile, California, and Greece
Exclusive partnership with VineView

13. Leading platform for crop-specific data analytics for drones
VISION
Leading platform for crop-specific data analytics for drones
Establish leadership position early in vineyards
Offer set of diagnostic tools for hyperspectral data
Scale SkySquirrel technology to other crops
Integrate with other data platforms (weather, ground sensors, farm inputs)

14. VP Business Development
OUR TEAM
Chris MacDonald
VP Business Development
Richard van der Put
CEO
Matt Staid
Scientific Director
MBA / Agricultural Engineer
Business consultant for software industry
8+ years experience in ag sector
Family investment fund manager
10+ years in image analysis
Start-up product development expert
MSc. Biomedical Engineering
Raised over $4M in private and government funding
Renowned Expert in Remote Sensing
Founder of VineView
15+ years experience in aerial imaging in agriculture
Lead Scientist for NASA
PhD from Brown University

15. BUSINESS MODEL Current customer: crop consultants Pricing:
Consultants buy hardware ($10k) and capture images
SkySquirrel processes data for fee/acre
Consultants provide results to growers with % margin
Pricing:
Vigor Mapping $4-10 per acre
Disease Mapping and Water Stress $16-20 per acre
Average $27k per consultant in 2016, $96k in 2020
80-95% margin on recurring data products

16. Competitive Landscape
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Competitive Landscape
SPECIFIC DIAGNOSTIC
Lab Analysis X
Patent pending DroneFuse QUANTATM
Proprietary algorithms:
Disease detection (Grape Leafroll)
Water stress
Calibrated Vigor
Extensive experience in vineyard imaging using standard airplanes X
Ground Sensors X X
GreenSeeker X X X X X
Satellite X
GENERIC TOOL
RESOLUTION

17. SUMMARY METRICS Focused on well-defined market
Customers with proven willingness to pay
Proprietary hardware and software for monitoring crop health
SAAS business model servicing $85B wine industry

18. EXAMPLE 1: Leafroll Detection

19. EXAMPLE 2: Vigor Mapping
Raw Images
Processed data

20. CAMERA IMPROVEMENT Day 1 Day 2 Current Camera QUANTA Camera NOTES:
Images taken 1 day apart. All images calibrated on same reference object. Current Camera Images shifted by 0.25 to bring in same color range as QUANTA Images. Same calibration approach with both cameras.