Technical trial services

Every plot measured, every result your team can open

Small-plot trials flown by drone and measured plot by plot, and paddock scale trials on growers' own machines, for chemical, seed and fertiliser companies. We run the statistics; your team sees the results in its own portal.

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A drone elevation model of a small-plot cereal trial, the imagery draped over the terrain and the trial frame drawn around the plots

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Small plot drone analytics
Crop row detection
Statistics and sharing
The Cropix GIS Portal
Paddock scale trials
Client portal
Prices

Service 1

Small plot trial drone analytics

Each site is flown with a DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral and every plot is measured. Fly the trial again and the new flight sits beside the first, on the same plot grid, so any metric can be compared flight to flight.

Measured on every plot

NDVI, NDRE, MSAVI and SAVI
Canopy cover
Plant height
On-row and inter-row values

Statistics

ANOVA per metric: F, p, CV
LSD (0.05) and letter groups
Means or rep by rep
Flight-to-flight comparison

Delivered

Private portal access
Results workbook
CSV bundle
Every flight kept with the trial

NDVI on a 12-treatment cereal trial with plot boundaries over the drone orthomosaic — **Map layers.** RGB orthomosaic at 0.4 cm/px, elevation, hillshade and vegetation indices, with plot boundaries and the treatment plan on top. Here, NDVI on a 12-treatment cereal trial.

**Flights over time.** A lentil trial on its first flight…

The same lentil trial five weeks later, on the same plot grid — …and five weeks later, on the same plot grid.

The plot designer: a plot grid set to true scale and placed on the imagery — **Plot designer.** Set ranges, columns and plot size, then drag and rotate the grid onto the orthomosaic at true scale.

3D terrain

Every flight builds a drone elevation model. The portal drapes the imagery over it, so you can spin and tilt the whole trial and see crop height plot by plot.

Two trials on one site, wheat and barley, 140 plots, each framed and labelled — **Wheat and barley.** Two trials on one site, 140 plots, each framed and labelled.

Crop row detection

Our in-house AI model finds every crop row in the imagery. Each plot is then split into the crop row and the ground between the rows, so crop growth and weed pressure are measured separately. It works at any row spacing, on any stubble load and in any crop.

Crop rows detected on the RGB imagery: lentil seedlings in stubble with each row drawn as a line — **Rows detected on the RGB.** Lentil seedlings in stubble, each detected row drawn as a line along the seedlings.

Inter-row MSAVI with the crop rows masked out, so the green left between them is weeds — **Inter-row MSAVI.** Crop rows masked out (dark bands), so the green left between them is weeds (F = 4.48, p < 0.001).

On-row MSAVI on the same plots: only the crop row is sampled — **On-row MSAVI, same plots.** Only the crop row is sampled, so the result is crop growth alone (F = 4.36, p < 0.001).

Statistics and sharing

One click runs the ANOVA for every metric. Pull the reps apart to check they agree, and click a treatment to light up its plots on the map.

Trial statistics in the GIS Portal: wheat NDVI rep by rep, with one treatment's four plots outlined on the map — **Trial statistics.** Wheat NDVI shown rep by rep (F = 17.06, p < 0.001), with treatment 8 selected and its four plots outlined on the map.

Plant height by treatment, measured from each plot's own ground points — **Plant height.** Measured from each plot's own ground points, so it is crop height, not soil (F = 18.43, p < 0.001).

The plot data table: every plot with every value — **Plot data.** Every plot with every value. Click a row to find the plot on the map.

Real trial data. Client and trial names changed.

The Cropix GIS Portal

Small-plot results live at portal.cropixsa.com.au. Every flight is filed under its trial, with the client, season, flight date and plot grid at a glance. Search, filter and open.

Export

A results workbook with bulk data, treatment order and an ANOVA table per metric, or a CSV bundle with plot results and a treatment summary.

Private client access

Share each trial with your organisation. Viewers see the results; editors can also change plot designs. Sign-in is required, and access can be removed at any time.

Open the GIS Portal

The export panel: results workbook with bulk data, treatment order and an ANOVA table per metric, or a CSV bundle — **Export.**

Client access: sharing a trial with an organisation as viewers or editors — **Client access.**

Service 2

Paddock scale trials

Your product tested on growers' paddocks with their own machines, as long strips or replicated blocks, and measured with yield and protein maps. All sites in a job are reported together.

Plan
Sites, treatments and rates agreed with you.
Agree
Each grower's agreement recorded.
Design
Strips or blocks on the paddock's own run lines.
Rate files
For each grower's controller, every major brand.
In season
As-applied check, and satellite or drone NDVI.
Report
Yield and protein by plot, then a combined report.

Replicated blocks: four urea rates repeated eight times across a 173 ha paddock — **Replicated blocks.** Four urea rates (nil, 40, 80 and 120 kg/ha) repeated eight times across a 173 ha paddock.Imagery © Esri, Maxar

N-rich strips: the grower rate against an N-rich strip, four replicates, full paddock length — **N-rich strips.** Grower rate (80 kg/ha urea) against an N-rich strip (200 kg/ha), four replicates, full paddock length.Imagery © Esri, Maxar

Results for every site

Yield and protein by plot and treatment, with letter groups
Response to rate: where yield peaks, and the economic optimum
Plots coloured above or below the control
Headlands, controller ramp and header flow delay removed
Report PDF, per-plot CSV and plot map shapefile
Strips, blocks, factorial and free-form designs

Client portal for paddock scale trials

Your team signs in at app.cropixsa.com.au/trials and sees only the trials shared with your company: the trial list, plot layout, status from designed to analysed, and results.

Status and results

Each site from designed to analysed, then yield, protein and response to rate.

Downloads

Report PDF, per-plot CSV and plot map shapefile for every trial.

Privacy

Growers' names stay hidden unless they agree. "Where am I?" shows your plot on a phone.

Trial prices

Small plot trial drone analytics. Very large trials may need to be quoted.
Service	Unit	Rate (ex GST)
Site feeSite setup, portal access and the first trial on the site.	per site	$1,500.00
Additional trialEach extra trial on the same site.	per trial	$400.00
Drone flightOne flight covers every trial on the site.	per flight	$800.00 + travel
Self-supplied imageryNo flight. Your own imagery loaded and analysed.	per site	$400.00

Paddock scale trials.
Service	Unit	Rate (ex GST)
Paddock scale trialSite design, rate files, as-applied check, in-season NDVI, yield and protein analysis, and client portal.	per trial	$6,000.00
Additional passEach extra application pass, for example a second product or timing.	per pass	$1,500.00

All prices in Australian dollars, ex GST, current as at October 2026 and subject to change.

Planning a multi-site program?

Send us the product, the number of sites and the passes, and we'll put the season together. Call Matt on 0438 651 622 or email matt@cropixsa.com.au.