SenseFly eBee X Integration Kit for Sequoia

eBee X Integration Kit for Sequoia is a cutting-edge multispectral imaging solution tailored for agricultural and environmental mapping professionals. This kit pairs the Parrot Sequoia+ 4-band multispectral camera with the senseFly eBee X fixed-wing drone, transforming the eBee X into an advanced remote sensing platform. With the Sequoia’s ability to capture both high-resolution multispectral and RGB imagery in a single flight, users gain actionable insights for precision agriculture and land monitoring projects. From crop health analysis to vegetation management and environmental surveying, the eBee X Sequoia integration empowers users to efficiently collect data that reveals patterns invisible to standard RGB cameras.

Designed for seamless integration, the kit mounts easily onto the eBee X, with full support in senseFly’s eMotion flight planning software. This means automated image capture, geotagging, and even in-flight radiometric calibration occur without complicated setup, allowing professionals to focus on mission planning and data analysis. Whether you’re monitoring crop vigor across large farms or assessing habitat health in natural landscapes, the eBee X Integration Kit for Sequoia delivers reliable, survey-grade results that help inform better decisions in the field.

Key Features

• 4-Band Multispectral Sensor: Leverage a four-band multispectral camera (green, red, red edge, near-infrared) to capture critical vegetation data beyond the visible spectrum. These discrete bands enable calculation of indices like NDVI and NDRE, providing deep insights into plant health, chlorophyll levels, and crop stress that are invaluable for precision agriculture and environmental research.
• 16 MP RGB Camera: In addition to multispectral data, the Sequoia features a built-in 16 megapixel RGB sensor for high-resolution color imagery. Capture detailed orthomosaics and true-color views of your fields or project area. The RGB images provide context and detail for visual inspections and can be blended with multispectral outputs for enhanced analysis and presentation.
• Automatic Radiometric Calibration: The kit includes a dedicated sunshine sensor that performs real-time radiometric calibration of your images. This means each shot is corrected for ambient light conditions, ensuring that reflectance measurements are accurate and consistent across changing lighting or multiple flights. The result is reliable data output (reflectance maps and vegetation indices) without the hassle of manual calibration targets for every flight.
• RTK/PPK Support: Unlock survey-grade accuracy with RTK/PPK integration. When used with an eBee X equipped with RTK/PPK capabilities, each image is geotagged with centimeter-level precision. This high-accuracy positioning is crucial for mapping and surveying applications, reducing or even eliminating the need for ground control points. Professionals can trust that their multispectral maps and digital surface models align with true ground coordinates for accurate measurement and analysis.
• Seamless eBee X Integration: The Sequoia+ sensor and integration kit are purpose-built for the senseFly eBee X drone, ensuring a plug-and-play experience. The camera is recognized and controlled through the eBee X’s autopilot and eMotion software, enabling automated flight plan triggering and geotagging. This tight integration guarantees smooth data capture workflows — from takeoff to landing, image acquisition is handled automatically so you can focus on mission objectives. The lightweight, aerodynamic design of the kit also preserves the eBee X’s famed endurance (up to 90-minute flights), allowing large areas to be covered with multispectral precision.

The eBee X Integration Kit for Sequoia is designed exclusively for the senseFly eBee X drone. It is not a standalone camera; it requires the eBee X platform for operation.

(1) eBee X Sequoia Integration Kit (mounting hardware, cables, and connectors for attaching the Sequoia to eBee X)

Q: What types of agricultural insights can be derived from the multispectral data?
A: Multispectral imagery allows users to generate vegetation indices (such as NDVI, NDRE and others) that reveal crop health and vigor. By analyzing these indices, agriculture professionals can identify plant stress, nutrient deficiencies, pest or disease outbreaks, and overall field variability. In practice, this means farmers and agronomists get actionable insights—like pinpointing under-performing areas of a field or determining optimal harvest time—based on quantifiable crop conditions rather than just visual inspection.

Q: How does RTK/PPK improve accuracy for mapping applications?
A: RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) and PPK (Post-Processed Kinematic) are high-precision GNSS technologies that greatly enhance the geolocation accuracy of each captured image. When the eBee X drone is flying with RTK/PPK enabled, the coordinates recorded for the Sequoia’s imagery are accurate to within a few centimeters. This precision geotagging ensures that when you stitch images into maps or 3D models, the results are properly scaled and aligned to true ground coordinates.

Q: What software can process the captured multispectral imagery?
A: The data from the Sequoia multispectral camera can be processed with a variety of professional photogrammetry and GIS software. Many users leverage Pix4D products (like Pix4Dfields or Pix4Dmapper) to stitch multispectral images and compute index maps, as Pix4D offers radiometric processing tailored for Sequoia. Other compatible software options include Agisoft Metashape, DroneDeploy (with agriculture modules), and senseFly’s own eMotion/Pix4D cloud solutions.

Q: How does automatic radiometric calibration enhance data reliability?
A: Automatic radiometric calibration ensures that the brightness values captured by the sensor are corrected to actual reflectance values, accounting for changes in sunlight during a flight or between flights. The Sequoia’s included sunshine sensor measures ambient light in the same spectral bands, and this information is used to adjust the imagery so that lighting variations don’t skew the results. Ultimately, radiometric calibration improves the scientific accuracy of your maps, giving you greater confidence that observed differences in imagery are due to real differences in vegetation, not just lighting artifacts.