CASE offering drone services

The College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) is to utilise drone technology for the delivery of various projects such as the spraying of farms and the mapping of properties.

CASE president, Dr Derrick Deslandes, said persons can also engage with the institution to use its drones for a range of tasks and solutions.

"If you are a developer or a surveyor and you want a piece of land to be mapped, we can map it. If you are a farmer and you want to spray your property whether [with] liquid or granular fertiliser or you want to use chemicals, we can do that too," he said.

Deslandes, who was addressing a Founders' Day weekend event at the Portland-based institution last Saturday, said that CASE has four of the "top of the line" drones that are capable of delivering the services.

"In fact, we are probably one of two organisations with that capability," he boasted.

Deslandes said the drone service is one of the institution's revenue-earning measures.

"We have to be very creative. Certainly, one of the strategies that we have pursued is to create a mechanism for generating revenue outside of tuition. We're trying to develop a future for CASE where we are not dependent on student revenue," he said.