The flying objects will also boost education, while spraying pesticides to protect crops.

Sustainable development in the near future will largely depend on ensuring food security as well as saving up resources like water, in order to make sure that countries stay self-sufficient while drought and desertification affect swathes of land as one of the drastic consequences of climate change. This is where modern tech like AI, drones and computer vision come in, so that agricultural production can be significantly scaled up, while cutting down the consumption of water as well as involvement of chemicals in farming.

Evolving digital economies like the UAE and Saudi Arabia already have vertical farms as well as indoor facilities where crops are monitored using intelligent tech, while drones are deployed for diverse purposes from zapping cloud for more rains to planting trees in the middle of a desert. After displaying its capabilities to manufacture UAVs that can excel in the battlefield, Turkey is now supplying flying devices which can help cultivate a green revolution in Azerbaijan, by remotely monitoring vegetation and protecting it against plant diseases.

Developed at Ankara University, the drones will be able to use surface reflection, which uses light bouncing off crops to collect more details about the nature of plants, also known as vegetation indices. The flying objects will capture multispectral images, that measure light in the form of several smaller bands, and can later be analysed using smart software.

Data collected and processed through this method will reveal requirement for water as well as fertilisers, along with the risk of diseases which could affect the crops, to increase productivity and to maintain quality of the output. The project also involved three experts from Azerbaijan with access to training courses and experience sharing exercises, and now aims to use the drones for spraying pesticides as well.

Turkey's mechanism, which will introduce the same level of sophistication available at tech-equipped farms in the UAE where everything down to the leaf can be monitored, will also be used for educational purposes.