CropLife features Sentera as one of the 20 agricultural apps to know about.
Star Tribune features Sentera as a growth leader of the state’s economy.
AgFunder features Sentera’s weather data tools to help growers stay on top of in-season weather impact.
AgriMarketing highlights Sentera’s partnership with AB InBev for sustainability and grower empowerment.
NS Agriculture highlights Sentera’s partnership with AB InBev to improve growers’ productivity.
Seed Today highlights Sentera and AB InBev partnership for sustainability and grower empowerment
The Tech Tribune features Sentera in the 2020 Best Startups in Minneapolis. The feature highlights Sentera’s solutions across several industries to make data-driven decisions.
Farm Industry News features Sentera’s Gimbaled Quad Sensor in its latest product roundup. The feature highlights tools that help ag professionals increase efficiencies throughout a growing season.
PrecisionAg.com showcases Sentera’s Gimbaled Quad Sensor, and its ability to optimize crop health data capture. Seamless integration with DJI Inspire and Matrice drones make it an ideal solution for ag professionals.
In Farm Industry News, Willie Vogt highlights Sentera’s Double 4K sensor and its onboard computer that produces LiveNDVI video. The technology helps farmers and trusted advisors to make decisions.
Sonja Begemann with Farm Journal writes about the integration between Sentera FieldAgent™ and The Climate Corporation FieldView. The partnership provides new capabilities and increased connectivity to users.
Laurie Bedord with Successful Farming writes about how Sentera’s partnership with The Climate Corporation FieldView enhances agronomic insights for consultants, advisors, growers, and ag experts.
Matt Hopkins with PrecisionAg.com highlights Sentera’s partnership with The Climate Corporation FieldView and the ability for the partnership to enhance agronomic insights.
Laurie Bedord with Successful Farming highlights how Sentera expanded its FieldAgent platform to include high-fidelity crop stand, weed pressure mapping, spot scouting maps, and free local image stitching.
Matthew J. Grassi with Precision Ag Magazine highlights Sentera’s AGX710 sensor and its availability on the DJI M200 series drones – helping ag professionals around the globe capture and leverage precision data.
Sentera CEO, Eric Taipale discusses the benefits Sentera’s UMN license agreement with Staff reporter Katrina Pross at the MN Daily. Read how Nitrogen detection technology can simultaneously benefit growers and the environment.
Sentera CEO, Eric Taipale discusses the benefits Sentera’s UMN license agreement with Staff reporter Katrina Pross at the MN Daily. Read how Nitrogen detection technology can simultaneously benefit growers and the environment.
The Farm Journal – AgPro highlights the launch of Sentera’s new FieldAgent Mobile app – noting that there are more features and flying is free!
The World Fertilizer Mazagine features Sentera’s license agreement with the University of Minnesota on Nitrogen deficiency detection, highlighting how the capability will help the industry.
The Precision Farming Journal writes about Sentera’s innovative gimbal upgrade for the Phantom 4 Series drones – allowing for nadir image capture which translates into even more data precision.
Matthew J. Grassi with PrecisionAg.com highlighted Sentera in his opinion piece about that discusses and highlights the Top 14 Precision Farming Companies to Watch in 2018.
Nate Dorsey, an Agronomist for RDO Equipment, wrote an opinion piece for PrecisionAg.com discussing his 5 most used precision ag apps of 2017. Featured in his article is Sentera AgVault (now FieldAgent) as an in-field software solution he relies on during the growing season.
Matthew Grassi with CropLife Magazine and PrecisionAg writes about his interview with Sentera Chief Aerospace Engineer Todd Colten, highlighting the Phoenix Pro and it’s play to scout 1,000 acres in a single flight.
The Western Producer highlights how Sentera’s near-real-time field-edge analysis capability is helping farmers detect early warning indicators of poor emergence.
Precision AgWired.com, in their latest article, highlights the how Sentera is transforming Toys into Tools for the farm
Editor Nate Mickelberg with Fargo INC! interviews Sentera CEO, Eric Taipale about how remote-sensing technologies are leveraged in the agriculture industry, and helping Ag decision makers gain valuable insights.
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Directions Magazine reports about how Sentera’s new Multispectral Double 4K Sensor – compatible with the DJI Inspire and multiple other drones – capturing 5 spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR)
Laurie Bedord with Successful Farming at agriculture.com highlights the launch of Sentera’s Closed Beta for Plant Population maps, rolling emergence capability out to select AgVault™ users.
Neal St. Anthony with the Minneapolis StarTribune writes about how Sentera is “soaring to new heights” while advancing precision agriculture technologies.
Sentera is highlighted in Farm Forum when it achieves product placement in over 350 North American retail locations.
The Drone Girl and Wall Street Journal Contributor, Sally French reports on about Sentera’s ability to turn a basic drone into a precision agriculture platform with its latest product release.
sUASnews.com showcases the launch of Sentera’s DJI Mavic + NDVI Upgrade, helping detect stress sooner, faster using the latest in DJI drone technology.
Laurie Bedord with Successful Farming at agriculture.com highlights the launch of Sentera’s DJI Phantom 4 Pro + NDVI Upgrade, helping detect stress sooner, faster.
Matthew J. Grassi with PrecisionAg.com writes about Sentera’s <$5K solution to capture precise NDVI using the DJI Phantom 4 Pro.
Commercial UAV News writes about Sentera’s precise solution for field and crop health analysis: The NDVI Toolbox™
Tom McKenny with New Zealand’s Stock & Land reports on Sentera’s Double 4K sensor and its ability to process NDVI data in-flight, live streaming NDVI data to a mobile device on the ground.
Laurie Bedord with Successful Farming at Agriculture.com, reports on Sentera’s launch of the NDVI Toolbox™ showing both field contrast and progression in crop health maps.
Australian publication, The Weekly Times, highlights Sentera’s launch of real-time NDVI streaming on-the-fly for growers and agronomists.
sUAS News informs the drone community about the launch of Sentera’s LiveNDVI™ capability – the only capability like this offered today.
Willie Vogt with Farm Industry News sat down with Sentera’s executive team to learn about the LiveNDVI capability. He includes a short video in his story, highlighting the launch.
The Farm Forum reports on the partnership agreement between RDO Equipment Co. and Sentera, bringing a wider range of UAV solutions to a broader market.
The Motley Fool‘s Neha Chamaria discusses how Sentera is a player in the agriculture drone market, a market that has the ability to turn into a $32 billion industry.
Sentera received an Honorable Mention from the Minnesota Business Magazine for Minnesota businesses “Most Likely to Succeed in 2017” in the Data category.
Farm Forum highlights Sentera’s Omni™ UAV and its Double 4K sensor and application for the agriculture industry.
The Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal announces Sentera’s win of the Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) Startup Tekne Award — recognizing superior advancements in remote-sensing technology.
Ag Professional‘s Margy Eckelcamp interviewed our EVP of Business Development, Greg Emerick about how precision ag is shaping the industry. Read the Q & A in this spotlight feature!
Tom McKenny with the Australian publication Stock & Land showcases Sentera’s Omni UAV with Double 4K sensor as an affordable crop-scouting tool. The Double 4K provides high-resolution RGB and NIR imagery, producing beautiful NDVI maps.
Precision Ag highlights Sentera’s latest UAV, the Omni, with omnidirectional NIR sensing capabilities. The Omni is ideal for agriculture, inspection, and survey & mapping applications.
With the launch of Sentera’s latest UAV, the Omni, Tech{dot}MN discusses the omnidirectional sensing capabilities the Omni boasts — capturing data from underneath structures and from obscure angles.
Australian Farm Online reports on Sentera’s reseller appointment of Rise Above Drones. The agreement brings Sentera’s precision agriculture solutions to Australia’s robust agriculture industry.
Tech{dot}MN highlights Sentera’s recently inked reseller agreement with Australian drone company Rise Above. Rise Above is offering its customers Sentera’s breadth of precision ag products.
Matthew J. Grassi of Precision Ag writes about Dynamic UAV Solutions inking a distribution agreement with Sentera. Dynamic will distribute Sentera’s products across multiple industries including agriculture, inspection, and survey & mapping.
DronerNation.com reports on Sentera’s latest product update, enabling users of AgVault™ Mobile to plan drone flights that far exceed battery life. The feature allows for any number of battery swap-outs making data capture seamless, and only limited by the SD card storage.
The Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) interviewed Sentera interns and employees about how the SciTech Internship program is positively impacting the business and giving students valuable hands-on experience.
Listen to Mick Kjar of AgNews 890 talk with Kris Poulson, VP of Agriculture for Sentera, about how drones are helping farmers this time of year.
Farm Journal’s Technology and Crop Editor, Ben Potter, interviewed Sentera EVP Greg Emerick about how the agriculture industry is using data, captured from drones to make better input decisions, and how a grower might implement the technology into their operations.
Precision Ag highlights Sentera’s reseller agreement with New Zealand’s DroneMate, bringing precision agriculture products to the southern hemisphere just in time for the growing season!
TECH{dot}MN reports on Sentera’s recently announced reseller agreement with DroneMate, distributing precision agriculture products throughout New Zealand.
Farm Journal‘s Tech Editor, Ben Potter, spoke with Sentera EVP, Greg Emerick, about how the new FAA regulations will affect growers looking to use precision ag tools like UAVs.
Sentera CEO Eric Taipale sits down with Cyndy Brocato of Greater MSP Business to explain how the new FAA regulations make it easier to use commercial drones.
Mick Kjar of AgNews 890 talked to Kris Poulson, VP of Agriculture for Sentera, about the Part 107 FAA regulation and how it will help farmers in the 2016 growing season.
Precision Ag highlights Sentera’s recent achievement of capturing over 25,000,000 acres of images — an industry milestone.
Minnesota Public Radio‘s (MPR) Cathy Wurzer interviewed Sentera EVP Greg Emerick about what the FAA Part 107 document means to the industry and helps clarify the legal commercial uses.
UAS Magazine touts Sentera’s achievement of collecting over 25,000,000 acres of images using the company’s sensors. Also highlighted are the Sentera Phoenix 2 UAV platform and AgVault 2.0 Mobile app.
GPS World reports on Sentera’s new Phoenix 2 UAV platform. With endurance of up to 60 minutes and speed of 30mph, it is a great, versatile UAV that many industries will be able to utilize.
After interviewing Sentera CEO Eric Taipale, TECH{dot}MN thinks it is “Safe to say that Sentera is Minnesota’s largest and most successful startup in the drone industry right now.”
Australian publication The Land Magazine showcases the debut of Sentera’s Phoenix 2 UAV, highlighting the superior autopilot which allows the UAV to map with unmatched precision.
This Father’s Day, Farm Industry News suggests Sentera’s Phoenix 2 precision drone as a gift for the “farmer who has everything”, allowing growers to capture critical crop health data using a robust fixed-wing platform.
Precision Ag showcases Sentera’s launch of the Phoenix 2 fixed-wing UAV, ideal for large agriculture fields, inspections, and public safety applications.
Minneapolis-based newspaper StarTribune reports on Sentera’s recent receipt of the final $2 million of an $8.5 million Series A round, with plans to use the money for more hiring and to ramp up product development.
A Southern California Sheriff’s department kicked off a one-year search and rescue (SAR) evaluation period utilizing a Sentera drone. Expectations are that the drone will help the department locate missing persons quicker and more economically than traditional methods.
Australian publication Stock & Land writes about the impact Sentera’s NDVI Upgrade for the DJI Phantom 4 drone will have in the region, providing invaluable RGB, NIR, and NDVI data and assisting growers with crop production.
Farm Industry News highlights Sentera’s Phantom 4 + NDVI Upgrade in its Tech Five roundup series, a forum that explores the latest technology for the ag industry.
DroneLife.com briefs its readers about Sentera’s introduction of the fully customizable dual 4K sensor, bringing precise clarity to the infrastructure inspection, public safety, and agriculture industries,
Dayton Business Journal discusses how Sinclair Community College is partnering with Sentera to grow its unmanned systems program.
The Los Angeles ABC News affiliate covered Sentera’s partnership with the Riverside County Sheriff‘s office, providing a drone and precision sensors for the County’s search and rescue missions.
Minnesota Business Magazine writes about Sentera’s drone, sensor, and software offering for diverse market segments, with multiple solutions, and how Sentera is playing a dynamic role in the Minnesota business landscape.
KARE11 News interviewed Sentera CEO Eric Taipale and the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering to find out how the high-precision UAS autopilot toolkit will benefit the agriculture industry and help growers reduce crop applications — better for the environment, yields, and ROI.
Chris Bennett of Farm Journal Magazine reports on Sentera’s recent integration as a John Deere Operations Center Production Partner and collaboration with SST Software’s agX® Platform.
UAS Magazine reports on Sentera’s recent integration as a John Deere Operations Center Production Partner and collaboration with SST Software’s agX® Platform.
Chris Bennett of Farm Journal Magazine reports on Sentera’s AgVault™ software, allowing growers to gain immediate access to valuable aerial RGB, NIR, and NDVI imagery at the field’s edge.
The Minnesota Daily interviewed Sentera CEO Eric Taipale, discussing the collaborative effort between Sentera and the U of M College of Science and Engineering to create a professional open-source UAV autopilot.
The Jamestown Sun reports on the Precision Ag Summit, where Sentera VP of Agriculture, Kris Poulson, highlighted the significant number of drones gifted to growers this Christmas, and the positive impact drones can have on crop health decisions.
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News interviewed Sentera CEO Eric Taipale and the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering to find out how the co-developed high-precision UAS autopilot toolkit will be of benefit to the industry.
UAS Magazine describes the successful collaboration between the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering and Sentera to develop a high-precision UAS autopilot toolkit and how the teamwork is benefiting the agriculture industry.
Farm Industry News‘ Executive Director, Willie Vogt, sat down with Sentera CEO Eric Taipale and EVP of Business Development Greg Emerick to discuss the 2016 outlook for precision agriculture and how to maximize drone data.
MPR‘s Dan Gunderson and Sentera’s EVP of Business Development, Greg Emerick, discussed sensor, software and drone use in the agriculture industry. Gunderson notes the growing industry and inquires about other applications and uses.
Sentera’s Chief Aerospace Engineer, Todd Colten, presented at the Club Entrepreneur (Club-E) meeting held in Duluth, Minnesota where BusinessNorth was on-hand to capture the highlights including the future of commercial drone use and advancements in sensor and data management technologies.
Sentera’s Chief Aerospace Engineer, Todd Colten, discussed how the Agriculture Industry is using drones to support operational efficiencies and The Progressive Farmer was there to report on the topic.
Sentera CEO Eric Taipale, and EVP Greg Emerick, sit down with the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper to discuss Sentera, drones and bringing this technology to market.
Sentera’s Phantom 3 Professional NDVI Upgrade featured in UAS Magazine, showcasing how the product is helping the agriculture industry become more efficient.
Greg Emerick, EVP of Business Development, was interviewed by UAS Magazine to discuss how software is helping manage big data inherent in all drone and inspection imagery.
Sentera’s software simplifies UAS data handling for end users
Dakota Farmer highlights a critical weed-scouting project in which NDSU and Sentera are developing technologies to help farmers scout weeds using a UAV.
Sentera CEO Eric Taipale participates in a Club-Entrepreneur (Club-E) panel discussion in St. Paul, Minnesota where the topic of conversation was about drones, sensors, data, and future technologies.
Eric J. Taipale, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Sentera, Inc, has over 20 years of experience successfully leading teams and organizations that advance drone, sensor, and software technologies.
Preceding the formation of Sentera, Eric was the Chief Technology Officer of FourthWing Sensors LLC. He joined FourthWing from Lockheed Martin where he held a number of senior technical, business development, and program management roles, most recently serving as Chief Engineer of the Unmanned Solutions business area, with operations in Alabama, California, New York, and Utah. Previously, he served as Director of Engineering at Goodrich, now UTC Aerospace Systems.
Eric has a broad range of experience in the design, production, and sustainment of sensors, mission systems and platforms, which spans a number of manned and unmanned airborne, surface and subsurface platforms.
At Sentera, Eric leads a talented team of business and technical professionals who deliver affordable, high-precision data and knowledge products into the infrastructure, agriculture, and public safety markets.
Eric holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona.
