Review Article Application and Potential of Drone Technology in Oil Palm Plantation: Potential and Limitations Zailani Khuzaimah , 1 Nazmi Mat Nawi , 1 Siti Nooradzah Adam , 1 Bahareh Kalantar , 2 Okoli Jude Emeka , 3 and Naonori Ueda 2 1 Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia 2 RIKEN Center of Advanced Intelligence Project, The Goal-Oriented Technology Research Group, Disaster Resilience Science Team, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to Bahareh Kalantar; bahareh.kalantar@riken.jp Received 3 September 2021; Accepted 1 August 2022; Published 1 September 2022 Academic Editor: Davide Palumbo Copyright © 2022 Zailani Khuzaimah et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Oil palm has become one of the largest plantation industries in Malaysia, but the constraints in terms of manpower and time to monitor the development of this industry have caused many losses in terms of time and expense of oil palm plantation management. The introduction to the use of drone technology will help oil palm industry operators increase the effectiveness in the management of oil palm cultivation and production. In addition, knowledge gaps on drone technology were identified, and suggestions for further improvement could be implemented. Therefore, this study reviews the application and potential of drone technology in oil palm plantation, and the limitation and potential of the methods will be discussed. 1. Introduction Oil palm has become one of the country’s main sources of income apart from rubber and paddy cultivation. It has also dominated the world’s vegetable oil producers such as soy- bean, rapeseed, and sunflower by more than 35%. At the present time, Malaysia and Indonesia have become the world’s leading oil palm growing countries [1]. Furthermore, Malaysia has become the second largest exporter of palm oil and its related products. In 2020, Malaysia’s palm oil pro- duction was projected to reach about 20 million tonnes (350,000 barrels per day) with total export revenue about RM72.30 billion. In terms of planting, oil palm is suitable for planting in areas that have sunlight between 5 and 7 hours every day. They required temperature as above as 18 Celsius with an optimum temperature between 28 and 32 Celsius [2], while the optimal rainfall distribution is between 2000 nm and 3000 nm [3]. However, an increase in demand requires more modern approaches and technologies to be adopted in a sustainable manner to increase the production. The development of information and communication technology (ICT), espe- cially the Internet of things (IoT) including drone technol- ogy which provides mapping and data analysis services, can provide more accurate and effective information for precision agriculture technology. In general, IoT technology, especially drones, can collect and process information obtained from various sources and can help in collecting weather information, soil profile, and drainage, and at the same time, manage all crops in a more efficient way [4–7]. In plantation, drone technology is being utilized to monitor large plantation area due to its success in photography, aerial mapping, and surveillance [8, 9]. Drone which is also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that has no human pilot on board to navigate the vehicle [10, 11]. Despite not having a pilot, it still can fly thousands of kilometers, into confined space, and fly remotely and autonomously [12]. It can carry lethal or nonlethal payloads [13]. Drone technologist classified drones based on its aerial platform. There are four major Hindawi Journal of Sensors Volume 2022, Article ID 5385505, 18 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5385505