Comparison

RGB vs multispectral, without the marketing.

Most buyers arrive asking why they shouldn't just buy a multispectral payload. Here is the straight answer, including the cases where you should.

RGB vs multispectral

Same decision, without the payload.

Dimension

Multispectral

Nabhya

Sensor

Extra multispectral payload

The RGB drone you already fly

Cost

Hardware, plus calibration kit

Software only

Workflow

Calibration panel, second flight

Upload an image

Rollout

Per-aircraft hardware upgrade

One API call

Time to first result

Procurement, then training

Seconds

Output

Calibrated index values

Stress map, zones, canopy, JSON

Use multispectral when

You need calibrated index values that are comparable between flights, sites or seasons.
The output feeds a research protocol, a trial, or a regulatory submission.
You already own the payload and the calibration workflow is part of your routine.

Use Nabhya when

You need to decide which fields or zones get walked this week.
You want crop health as a deliverable without adding hardware to every aircraft.
You are adding a crop health layer to software through an API.
You have RGB imagery already sitting on a drive.

Same frame, both views

Standard RGB drone photograph of a field block — What the camera saw.

Nabhya near-NDVI vegetation stress map of the same frame — What Nabhya inferred — relative within the frame, not a calibrated measurement.

Get a result

Send us one frame.

If you have a recent RGB flight sitting on a drive, send a single frame and we'll return the full result for it — free, no account. It's the fastest way to find out whether this is useful to you.

Returned: Vigour map, zones, canopy mask, summary
Turnaround: Same day, seconds of compute
Cost: Free during onboarding