A new tech start-up business has developed a way to count the number of fruit on trees at a rate 6000 times faster than a human could.

The device, dubbed the Cartographer, utilises a combination of satellite information and a specialized camera mounted to a quad bike to develop mapped data that can be compared year by year.

It is hoped that the data will give farmers in-depth information about the quantity and distribution of their crop from its flowering stage through to its harvest.