DroneDash and GEODNET form Singapore venture for heavy-lift farm spraying drone
DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have launched a Singapore joint venture to build autonomous heavy-lift spraying drones.
The new company, GEODASH Aerosystems Pte. Ltd., is targeting commercial deployment of its GDA80-120 platform in the third quarter of 2026. Initial markets will be Southeast Asian oil palm and sugarcane plantations, followed by broad-acre farming operations in the United States and South America. The venture is aimed at industrial-scale agriculture, where estates can span thousands of hectares and spraying capacity depends on speed, precision and repeatability.
The GDA80-120 is built around a bottleneck that has limited the scale of agricultural drone spraying: the need to map fields before each mission. Conventional spraying drones require operators to survey each field manually, create static flight plans and regenerate those plans when terrain, canopy structure or planting patterns change. In large plantations with uneven ground and mixed-age crops, that workflow directly limits how much land a drone team can cover and how quickly it can respond to changing crop conditions.
GEODASH Aerosystems says the platform removes that pre-survey step from the workflow. DroneDash’s AI Vision system provides real-time perception of plantation structure, canopy height and terrain features, while GEODNET’s decentralized RTK correction network delivers centimeter-level positioning during flight. GEODNET operates more than 20,000 active reference stations across more than 140 countries, giving the drone a positioning backbone for autonomous altitude control and spray-rate adjustment over variable terrain.
The aircraft is also designed to collect agronomic data during spraying missions. Those flight records feed DroneDash’s AI Smart Farming backend for canopy density and uniformity analysis, crop stress and anomaly detection, spray effectiveness validation and terrain profiling. Pilot deployments and system validation have been conducted with plantation operators through 2025 and early 2026, while manufacturing readiness and regulatory approvals are underway ahead of the planned launch; if delivered as scheduled, the system could reduce a major operational constraint and make drone spraying more scalable for industrial agriculture.