Fast, precise orchard scanning that drives better decisions.
Our unique AI technology gives you visibility of your entire orchard’s crop and information you can use to improve yields and reduce labour costs.
Fast, precise orchard scanning that drives better decisions.
Our unique AI technology gives you visibility of your entire orchard’s crop and information you can use to improve yields and reduce labour costs.
How can Fruitometry’s orchard scanning technology improve your yield and optimise labour resources?
Unlike traditional methods, AI technology identifies crop features across entire blocks on your orchard with unmatched precision. This provides you with comprehensive insights that help you make earlier crop management decisions at all stages of the growing season.
Within 24 hours of an orchard scan our Fruitometry system generates a heatmap of the current fruit density per square metre for every row of your entire orchard. Armed with this powerful and accurate information you can see the problem areas of your orchard and start adjusting your management to fix them.
At what stages can our technology be utilised
Using Fruitometry’s digital crop estimate across the growing season provides growers and managers with insights to make earlier crop management decisions. Our current technology can be utilised at varying stages of the growing season including winter buds, shoots, flower buds, fruitlets, and fruit.
How does the Digital Crop Estimate (DCE) technology work
The field units mounted on our quad bikes and ATVs contain a range of cameras and sensors that capture crop density information and orchard characteristics.
Booking a scan
When you schedule a scan with Fruitometry, we use your orchard map to identify any hazards or special requirements and plan our approach.
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Our latest news and events
Fruitometry October Updates
Scan Density Data With Shoots scanning complete, we wanted to give our valued customers and interested parties an update on seasonal averages over the last 6 years and progress for season 2025/26. The graph below displays density of feature (winter bud, shoot, king...
Data shows a fruitful season blooming for kiwifruit
With four complete seasons of data across the NZ kiwifruit industry, the predictive power of Fruitometry’s Digital Crop Estimation is now beginning to bloom in earnest. By aggregating entire orchards worth of data, we can take a snapshot of the industry as a whole,...
Final Accuracy for 2023 harvest estimates revealed
Our accuracy for pre-harvest fruit estimations is impressive: 96% accurate on orchard fruit densities and 99% on aggregated fruit numbers! After processing and comparing packout data from 136.8 scanned hectares distributed along 71 Maturity Areas and 38 orchards we...
The Fruitometry Advantage
Digital crop estimates by Fruitometry uses 3D imaging and artificial intelligence techniques to count bud, flower and fruit densities in kiwifruit orchards rapidly and accurately.
This innovative technology replaces traditional manual counting with small sample sizes. Our services provide 100% coverage of the orchard to enable growers to understand the performance of every row and enable them to make the best decision for their orchard based on fast and accurate crop estimates.
The Fruitometry Advantage
Digital crop estimates by Fruitometry uses 3D imaging and artificial intelligence techniques to count bud, flower and fruit densities in kiwifruit orchards rapidly and accurately.
This innovative technology replaces traditional manual counting with small sample sizes. Our services provide 100% coverage of the orchard to enable growers to understand the performance of every row and enable them to make the best decision for their orchard based on fast and accurate crop estimates.
Meet our customers
Marc says it didn’t take much convincing for his orchard manager to see how the Fruitometry heatmaps could be used to make strategic decisions. A full orchard scan in January clearly demonstrated that 30% of the orchard had small fruit, with unacceptably high fruit density. They agreed to bring thinning crews just across that part of the orchard saving thousands of dollars in labour.
When to scan your orchard
Winter Buds
July to
September
Winter prune and tie down is complete
Assess quality of winter pruning
Target areas of overloaded buds
Early indication
of crop load
Shoots
Late
September
Shoots longer than 2cm but not overlapping each other
Early management of flower bud numbers
Assessment of bud burst rate
Shoot knockout strategy
Flower Buds
October to
November
Just before flower bud opens
Define king flower load thinning strategy
Early crop load indication
Fruitlet
November to
December
14 days after fruit set
Early thinning
Optimise labour resources
Assessment of crop variability
Early harvest estimate
Fruit
January to
harvest
Crop load management
Harvest estimation
Optimise harvest labour and resources
Market allocation planning
Density maps show fruit variability across entire blocks
Our Digital Crop Estimation solution scans entire blocks providing an accurate view of overall top loading.
Density maps show fruit variability across entire blocks
Our Digital Crop Estimation solution scans entire blocks providing an accurate view of overall top loading.
Innovative service
Our innovative service helps growers with labour shortage by enabling more efficient and targeted work input.
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