Public website
Visit website- Location/HQ
- Shimpling, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Regions covered
- Suffolk, East of England
- Services
- mapping, multispectral, spraying, spreading, environmental survey, tree survey
- Drone/equipment models
- Not listed
- Website
- https://www.dragonflysurveys.com/
- Public contact
- harry@dragonflysurveys.com / 07926 719348
About Dragonfly Surveys
Dragonfly Surveys is a Suffolk drone operator working with farmers, vineyard owners, estates and land managers across the East of England. The core of the business is multispectral survey: drone imagery and AI analysis that picks up disease, pest pressure, water stress and nutrient deficiency, often before any of it is visible from the ground, and turns that into practical maps for variable-rate herbicide and fertiliser decisions, weed detection, stand counts and yield estimates. The same survey work supports Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and Biodiversity Net Gain reporting, BS5837 tree surveys and woodland inventories, and mapping used as audit evidence for grant and stewardship conditions. Drone spraying and spreading is also offered. The remote pilot holds an A2 CofC and a GVC, carries specialist drone insurance and the business is a member of ARPAS-UK, the UK commercial drone trade association.
Regulatory notes
Listing confirmed directly with the operator in August 2026, from the business's own email domain. The ARPAS-UK member directory records the remote pilot as holding an A2 Certificate of Competency and a General VLOS Certificate, with a PDRA01 Operational Authorisation. PDRA01 covers unmanned aircraft below 25kg, so it does not by itself cover heavy-lift application drones, and no separate authorisation for large agricultural aircraft was publicly evidenced when this listing was checked. Aerial application of Plant Protection Products by drone also requires an HSE permit under the Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012. Confirm the current Operational Authorisation reference, insurance and product suitability directly with the operator before arranging spraying or spreading work.