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Hemisphere GPS uses advanced technology to provide landowners a new approach to brush control. Automated aerial spraying limits spraying to only the areas you need treated. The result is lower cost due to reduced chemical waste. Brush treatments can be sculpted in patterns that increase grass production and benefit wildlife at the same time.
How it works
Spray systems are turned on and off automatically at predetermined increments, giving an applicator the ability to spray sections of land as small as one-eighth of an acre with minimal spray to adjacent vegetation. This allows for unwanted vegetation to be spot sprayed from the air, avoiding application of herbicides where they are not needed or wanted. It also keeps spray away from bodies of water and other sensitive areas.
Services
We offer customized aerial brush treatment. This automated, map-driven approach results in more cost-effective brush control, and allows for special options such as brush sculpting. It's a simple four step process:
Determine Goals: We work with you to learn your brush management goals and provide options that will get you the results you want, whether you're managing for cattle, managing for wildlife, or a balance of both.
Map the Vegetation: We use high resolution aerial imagery, and use spectral analysis software to map the different types of trees and brush. It's often as important to accurately map what you don't want to spray in addition to the target vegetation types
Format the Maps: We create the digital files for the automated spray system on the aircraft that performs the application.
Spray the Areas: We work with a network of the best aerial applicators in the region. Odds are we can work with your favorite applicator.
We will work with you to manage the best outcome given a limited budget. If you have a 600-acre pasture, but a brush control budget for only 400 acres, we will treat only the thickest 400 acres within that 600 acres. This provides the optimum treatment while allowing you to stay on budget.
If you want to treat your oak shinnery, but would like to leave 30% of it sculpted in natural patterns for deer and quail, we can manage the treatment to meet your needs.
We can use any of the following to determine what gets treated:
Vegetation type: mesquite, prickly pear, cedar, salt cedar, oak, cottonwood, etc.
Tree size: leave big cottonwoods for turkeys, big oaks for bowhunting
Soil type: manage for grass on most productive soils
Slope: avoid erosion problems, maximize herbicide effectiveness
Brush density: spray most cost effective areas
Buffer around sensitive areas: water, food plots, critical habitat
Benefits
Cost savings of 10-40% through reduced chemical usage
Spray only carefully targeted areas
Automatic spray on/off programming allowing the pilot to focus only on flying
Applications
Selective brush control of mesquite, yucca, prickly pear, shinnery oak, etc.
Brush "sculpting" for improved deer, quail, turkey, and other wildlife habitat.
Service Area
Our service area includes the following states: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.
For questions on our Vegetation Management Solutions, please call Warren Thetford at (806) 777-8840.
No matter what your brush control problem, we'll help you stretch the dollars you spend on treatment and enhance your wildlife at the same time!
As a bonus, you can get a great new aerial map of your ranch!
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