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It's fairly straightforward to get a drone there. (Even regular off-the-shelf 2.4GHz RC gear and 5GHz video gear will happily get that sort of distance line-of-sight with relatively inexpensive high gain antennas). I'd bet any of the mid or high end consumer DJI drones could get there and take pictures of it.

It's much much more difficult to put together a drone that's capable of pulling a plant out of a piece of rocky ground reliably without damaging it. You can't buy that from DJI. UI doubt you can buy that from _anyone_. It _might_ be possible by mounting a consumer-grade robot arm on a commercially available drone. But you'd be building/programming/testing it yourself, and at that range in that terrain most failure modes probably mean you won't get your drone-capable-of-carrying-a-robot-arm-and-exotic-plant back.




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