Industries

Industry-aware design. Ten verticals. One chat.

A DRONA session doesn't start with "what drone do you want." It starts with what you're trying to do. Each industry below carries a mission library — between 5 and 13 chat-ready templates — that encodes the form factor, autonomy level, sensors, and compatibility envelope appropriate for the job. You describe the mission in your own words; the matrix runs behind the scenes.

Explore by industry

Ten industries, 86 mission templates.

Agriculture

Spraying, scouting, livestock, frost, orchards, pollination. From a 10-hectare family vineyard to a 40,000-acre row-crop contractor.

12 missions·L2–L4 autonomy

Solar

Utility-scale thermal, residential rooftops, commercial arrays, floating solar, post-storm triage, pre-install shading analysis.

10 missions·L2–L3 autonomy

Infrastructure inspection

Powerline corridors, wind-turbine blades, cell towers, pipelines, bridges, dams, refineries, confined spaces, subsea jackets.

13 missions·L2–L3 autonomy

Mapping & survey

Cadastral PPK, topographic RTK, forestry LiDAR, mine volumetric, construction progress, coastal erosion, archaeology.

8 missions·L3 autonomy

Delivery & logistics

Medical (Zipline-class), last-mile parcel, inter-facility cargo, rural resupply, island-hop, urban food, lift ops.

7 missions·L3–L4 autonomy

Public safety · SAR · security

Mountain SAR, maritime SAR, urban post-earthquake, crowd overwatch, perimeter docks, fire scene, border patrol.

9 missions·L2–L4 autonomy

Film · cinema · photography

Wedding, real-estate, feature A-cam, sports broadcast tether, FPV action, Cinewhoop indoor, scale-heli scenic.

6 missions·L0–L2 autonomy

Research · STEM · science

Vicon swarm, MATE ROV, DBF competition, polar ski-landing, atmospheric sampling, ocean sampling, biomimetics.

7 missions·L1–L4 autonomy

Underwater · marine

Reef survey, wreck archaeology, aquaculture net, hull inspection, subsea pipeline AUV.

5 missions·L1–L4 autonomy

Agritourism · long tail

The vineyard losing grapes to birds. The beekeeper monitoring hive activity. The dairy with wandering cows. Everything a mission template hasn't captured yet.

open-ended·L2–L3 autonomy
How the matrix runs

The chat classifies intent. The matrix picks the form factor.

A user never sees the matrix. They see a recommendation, a one-sentence rationale, and a one-sentence alternative. Behind the curtain, DRONA maps industry × mission → (form factor, autonomy level, sensor payload, regulatory profile, cost envelope). This is the structure of that mapping.

"I run a 400-acre cornfield and I want to spray this season."
Agriculture · spraying · heavy-lift MR · L3 autonomy · 10–30 L tank · downwash-optimized props · Part 137 flag.
AgricultureHeavy-liftL3
"I have a 2 MW rooftop solar array and I want thermal defect detection."
Solar · commercial rooftop · MR hex · L2–3 autonomy · radiometric thermal + RGB · 25-min mission · grid overlap 80%.
SolarHex MRL2–3
"I want to inspect a single wind-turbine blade, close-up."
Inspection · blade-follow · MR with 45 MP RGB · L3 autonomy · Skydio-class tracking · 20-min mission.
InspectionTrackingL3
"My agritourism place loses cows in rain. Can drones help?"
Agritourism long tail · livestock locate · MR hex + thermal · L3 scheduled autonomy · IP54 rain-rated · box-launch.
AgritourismThermalL3
"I need to map 1,200 acres for a pre-harvest yield estimate in 90 minutes."
Mapping · fixed-wing · L3 waypoint · RGB + multispectral · RTK GPS · PPK optional · 90-min endurance.
MappingFixed-wingL3
"Film a wedding without annoying the guests."
Film · wedding · foldable prosumer class · L2 · 3-axis gimbal · 4K · sub-80 dB noise envelope.
FilmFoldableL2
Mission → Form factor fit

The decision matrix, compressed.

Hover over a cell (desktop) to see rationale. On mobile, each industry page expands this into a readable list. This is a lossy summary of a full 86-row table; it's here to illustrate the pattern.

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Agriculture
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Solar
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Inspection
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Mapping
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Delivery
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Public safety
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Film · cinema
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Research
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Underwater
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Agritourism
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★★ best fit · strong fit · plausible with constraints · · not recommended

Pick a mission, not a drone

Start from the job.

The chat will take it from there — pick the form factor, validate against physics, flag the regulatory bucket, and render the 3D.

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