Orchard gap analysis
Find the missing trees in your orchard, and what they cost
Orchard gap analysis counts the positions in each row where a tree should be and isn't: trees that died, were pulled, or were never replanted. Agroview detects every tree in the block from drone (UAV) or aircraft imagery, marks every gap, and turns the count into revenue lost each year. No tree, no yield.
Why gaps go uncounted
Spot checks and estimates
Walking a few rows or applying a stand-loss guess does not inventory a block. The gaps you miss are the ones you never replant.
Coarse imagery
Field averages hide per-plant problems until the yield is gone. Satellite imagery is not used for Agroview tree counts.
Fragmented data
Flights, samples, and spreadsheets that never meet. A gap count only helps when it sits on the map next to the trees around it.
What a few percent of missing trees costs
The math is simple: tree positions × gap rate = missing trees, and missing trees × production × price = revenue lost every year. With illustrative citrus inputs and a deliberately conservative 6% gap rate:
- Tree positions
- 37,700
- 260 ac × 145 trees/ac
- Gap rate
- 6%
- of positions empty
- Missing trees
- 2,262
- × 2 boxes/tree × $20/box
- Lost each year
- $90,480
- before replant costs or lost years to bearing
The Florida average is 19.8%, not 6%.
Across the millions of Florida citrus tree spaces Agroview has assessed, the average gap rate is just under 20%. It varies widely from grower to grower. At 19.8%, the same grove would be missing 7,465 trees, about $298,600 a year.
Your acreage, density, yield, and price will differ. Run the calculator with your numbers. The detection methods behind these counts are published and peer-reviewed.
An accurate count, sooner, is how yield comes back
In Florida citrus, many gaps trace back to HLB (citrus greening). Whatever the cause, recovering gross yield runs through the same chain, and every step waits on the one before it.
Step 1
Accurate gap count, fast
Every empty position, by block, with imagery as evidence.
Step 2
Nursery order in sooner
Order the right number of trees, not an estimate.
Step 3
Replant
Resets go into the positions that were actually empty.
Step 4
Resets reach production
Young trees mature into bearing, and gross yield recovers.
A late or low count pushes every later step back a season. Agroview for citrus groves.
How Agroview finds every gap
1. Start from your block boundaries
KML or shapefile (SHP). Counts follow the block as planted, including irregular edges.
2. Bring or collect imagery
Upload your own, arrange a drone flight, or use aircraft imagery enhanced by Agrozoom for scale and past seasons.
3. Detect every tree, mark every gap
Models find each tree, trace the rows, and flag the empty positions. 95%+ count accuracy and under 5% mean absolute bias against ground truth, in peer-reviewed research.
4. Act on the report
Gap counts and maps by block, plus per-tree height, canopy area, and leaf density, ready for a nursery order or your advisors.
Track gaps season to season
Fly the same blocks again and the gap count becomes a trend: which resets went in, which positions are still open, and whether the stand is holding. Where there were no past flights, aircraft archive imagery with Agrozoom reaches back to earlier seasons, so the comparison can start before your first one.
How Agrozoom worksFrom crop insurers who use Agroview
“In Agroview, we found proven, accurate, and consistent results.”
“We have tried or used multiple AI platforms and Agroview is the most accurate and best value we have found.”
Gap count and report are part of every Agroview annual inventory, from $1,353/yr for under 100 acres. See pricing.
Get a free gap estimate on your blocks
Send your block boundaries (KML or SHP) and we'll run a more accurate gap estimate than the calculator can. Free. No imagery collection, no subscription.