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Pilot Name:

Craig McLaren

Company Name:

McLaren Precision Agriculture

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Company Email:

craig.a.mclaren@outlook.com

Company Phone:

07908042452

Pilot Qualifications:

A2CofC, GVC

Insurance Company:

Coverdrone

Areas Flown:

All England, North East England, North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East England, Home Counties, South West England, All Wales, North Wales, South Wales

Services Offered:

Aerial Mapping and Surveying, Aerial Photography and Videography, Agriculture and Land Management, Construction Monitoring, Insurance Claim Inspection, Public Safety and Inspection, Real Estate, Roof and Building Inspection, Structural and Infrastructure Inspection

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Specialist Agricultural Drone Surveys for Arable Farms Across Southern England

McLaren Precision Agriculture Ltd (MPA) is a CAA-authorised drone survey operator based in southern England, offering multispectral crop health surveys and topographic land mapping to arable farm managers, agronomists, and land professionals across Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and Wiltshire.

Where most drone operators deliver imagery, MPA delivers indexed, georeferenced scientific data — specifically the kind that informs variable-rate input decisions and satisfies the evidence requirements of government-backed precision farming schemes such as SFI26 PRF1. If you are a farm manager, estate manager, or agronomist looking for structured, auditable aerial data rather than general aerial photography, this is the service for you.

What MPA Can Deliver for Your Project

MPA’s primary survey platform is the DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral — a professional five-band sensor system that captures spatial crop health data well beyond what an RGB camera can detect. Survey outputs are georeferenced GeoTIFF files, compatible with VRA software and GIS platforms, delivered alongside an interpreted findings report.

Services available through this listing:

Multispectral Crop Health Surveys — NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, OSAVI, and LCI index mapping revealing nitrogen stress, disease pressure, and establishment variability across your fields; delivered with a management zone classification map and written scouting priorities

Seasonal Monitoring Programmes — Structured multi-flight contracts across the growing season, generating comparative field datasets from establishment through pre-harvest to track crop development over time

Topographic and Site Surveys — Orthomosaic imagery, digital elevation models, and contour mapping for construction planning, drainage assessment, land management, and planning application support

SFI26 PRF1 Evidence Packages — Survey outputs formatted to serve as the remote sensing evidence record for variable-rate application compliance under the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 scheme

Verified Credentials

All flights are conducted under full CAA Operational Authorisation. Credentials are available for verification through the CAA drone registration portal.

Who Typically Engages MPA

The clients best served by MPA’s capabilities are those where data quality and auditability matter: arable farm managers planning variable-rate nitrogen programmes, agronomists building evidence-based intervention recommendations for their client farms, estates requiring topographic baseline surveys, and farm businesses entering SFI26 precision farming actions who need a structured remote sensing record. MPA works collaboratively alongside agronomists rather than in competition with them — the data is designed to integrate into your existing advisory workflow.