Agriculture & viticulture
Automated vineyard missions, precision spraying, AI-assisted crop monitoring and disease detection with RTK-grade repeatability.
Vineyards · orchards · row crops
KEA Drones · Luxembourg
Autonomous intelligence. Built for the real world.
KEA develops autonomous drone systems that combine flight autonomy, computer vision and real-time analytics – for vineyards and fields, for critical infrastructure, and for the people who respond when something goes wrong.
Autonomous flight
RTK positioning ≈ 2 cm
On-board AI inference
LiDAR · 3D vision · thermal
Fleet & mission management
An aerial robotics company, not a drone operator.
KEA Drones designs the complete stack – airframe integration, autonomy, perception, on-board AI and the fleet software that turns flights into decisions. We build in Luxembourg, for European conditions, regulations and customers.
- 1platform – one autonomy, perception and fleet stack shared across every application
- 3application areas – agriculture & viticulture, security & infrastructure, emergency response
- EUengineered and operated under European aviation and data-protection rules
- ndrones per mission – cooperative multi-drone operation is part of the architecture from day one
Where autonomous flight earns its place
Three sectors where repeatable, precise and safe aerial work makes a measurable difference – and where a human in the loop stays in control.
Security & critical infrastructure
Automated perimeter patrols, alarm-triggered missions and thermal situational awareness for industrial sites and infrastructure.
Perimeters · plants · utilities
Emergency response
Rapid aerial reconnaissance, thermal mapping and payload delivery to support firefighters, rescue teams and disaster assessment.
Firefighting · search & rescue · assessment
LiDAR terrain scan · illustration
Autonomous flight
Navigation that understands the terrain it flies over
Our autonomy stack fuses RTK GNSS, LiDAR, 3D cameras and inertial data into a live model of the environment. Missions are planned on the ground, executed autonomously and supervised in real time – with clear, documented limits for what the system does on its own.
- RTK GNSS positioning & mission planningAvailable
- Autonomous row navigation in vineyardsAvailable
- LiDAR / vision obstacle avoidanceIn development
- SLAM in GNSS-degraded environmentsIn development
- Cooperative multi-drone operationsResearch
Precision agriculture, starting in the vineyard
Steep slopes, narrow rows and a short treatment window make viticulture the hardest test for aerial automation – and the place where it pays off first.
Row-following mission · vineyard · illustration
Automated missions
Row-accurate flight plans generated from field geometry, flown repeatably with RTK positioning.
Precision spraying
Targeted application with per-row logging, weather integration and treatment planning.
Crop health & disease detection
Multispectral and RGB imagery analysed by AI models to flag stress, disease and vigour differences early.
Vineyard analytics
Yield estimation, environmental monitoring and complete mission documentation in one record.
From imagery to decisions – on board and in real time
Perception models run on NVIDIA Jetson compute in flight. Results are streamed as telemetry, aggregated in the fleet platform and turned into treatment plans, alerts or reports.
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Capture
RGB, multispectral, thermal and LiDAR data, geo-referenced with RTK precision.
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Infer
Computer-vision models detect rows, obstacles, disease patterns and thermal anomalies on the edge.
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Analyse
The fleet platform fuses missions, weather and history into crop-health maps and situational overviews.
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Act
Treatment plans, patrol alerts and documented reports – reviewed and released by people.
Vegetation index map · illustration
Honest about what the models can do
Every capability on this site is labelled as available, in development or research. Detection models are validated per crop and region before they are released to customers, and every automated recommendation remains a recommendation until an agronomist or operator confirms it.
Security & critical infrastructure
Patrols that fly themselves, overseen by people
Scheduled perimeter patrols, alarm-triggered inspection flights and thermal imaging give security teams live situational awareness over large sites – without sending a person into the dark first.
- Automated, repeatable perimeter and facility patrols
- Alarm-triggered missions from your existing security systems
- Thermal and low-light imaging with live video to the control room
- Autonomous tracking and remote monitoring – in development
Perimeter patrol plan · illustration
Minutes matter. Aerial awareness in the first one.
For firefighters and rescue teams, a thermal overview of the scene before the first vehicle stops changes how a response is planned. KEA is developing emergency applications on the same autonomy platform.
Thermal reconnaissance · illustration
Firefighting assistance
Thermal reconnaissance, hotspot mapping and spread monitoring for incident command.
In development
Search & rescue
Systematic search patterns over terrain and water with thermal and optical detection.
In development
Payload transport & assessment
Delivery of small emergency payloads and rapid damage assessment after storms or floods.
Research
One platform. Every application.
The KEA platform is built on proven open autopilot technology and industrial components, integrated and validated as one system.
- Flight controlPixhawk-class autopilot, redundant IMUs, geofencing and return-to-launch logic
- PositioningRTK GNSS with centimetre-level accuracy, base-station or network corrections
- PerceptionLiDAR, stereo / 3D cameras, RGB and multispectral imaging, thermal payloads
- ComputeNVIDIA Jetson on-board AI inference for navigation and analysis
- AutonomyMission planning, autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance and SLAM (in development)
- TelemetryReal-time link for position, health and sensor results; encrypted transport
- FleetFleet orchestration, mission documentation and analytics in the KEA platform
- Multi-droneCooperative operation of several drones per mission (research objective)
49.61° N · 6.13° E
Engineered in Luxembourg, for Europe
KEA is based in Luxembourg, at the centre of the European market and its regulatory framework. We design for EU aviation rules, for GDPR-compliant data handling and for the fragmented, hilly and highly cultivated landscapes of Western Europe.
- Operations designed around the EU drone regulation (EASA specific category)
- Customer data processed and stored in the European Union
- Multilingual by design: English, German, French, Luxembourgish
Terrain contours · illustration
Let’s talk about your fields, your site or your mission.
Tell our engineering team what you need to see from the air. We will be honest about what works today, what we are testing and what is still research.
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- LocationLuxembourg · 49.61° N, 6.13° E