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Digitizing a tropical orchard
Practical, field-tested methods — the same ones behind CanopyTwin. No fluff: how to tag trees, run a phone survey, count fruit from photos, and decide whether you need a drone.
Case study
Digitizing a Durian Orchard: 243 Photos into a Living Map
How a working tropical durian orchard went from a folder of phone photos to 72 individually tracked trees with AI fruit counts.
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Field guide
How to Number and QR-Tag Fruit Trees
A field-tested scheme for giving every tree a permanent identity you can scan with any phone.
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Method
Survey an Orchard With Just a Phone
A repeatable GPS photo method that turns a walk through the rows into structured, per-tree data.
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Method
Counting Fruit and Flowers From Photos
What actually works when you want a defensible count from survey photos — and where the pitfalls are.
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Decision guide
Drone or Phone? When Aerial Photography Pays Off
Both map an orchard. They see different things — and the cheaper one is right more often than you'd think.
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Engineering
Counting Fruit in Orchard Photos with Open-Vocabulary Detection
The engineering behind CanopyTwin's fruit counts: Grounding DINO boxes, a VLM cross-check, SAM 2 segments, and serverless GPUs that cost nothing while idle.
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Want the whole thing in one PDF?
The full Tropical Orchard Digitization Guide — numbering, tagging, surveying, sensors, and building a harvest baseline — drawn from a real durian orchard survey.
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