RADIO-CINTROLLED HELICOPTER USE FOR DIRECT SEEDING RICE RADDY;FIELD OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATION

The time components of the operations were investigated on the rice paddy field operations by radio controlled helicopter. The net time of operations, seeding and application, were less than a quarter of the required total time in the field of 1 ha. The most interesting is how to decrease the time of hop-off and landing. In this paper the seeding density itself is taken under a new look and its describing method is discussed. Voronoi diagram was introduced to consider individual plant of rice paddy. Extremely wide ranges of the distribution of seeding density are not supposed by the common indexes based on the concept of mean values and discussed on the aggregate of plants.