US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Rapid drought monitoring and identification method for winter wheat based on UAV measurements of leaf area index" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,057, issued on Dec. 9.

"Rapid drought monitoring and identification method for winter wheat based on UAV measurements of leaf area index" was invented by Wenlong Song (Beijing), Hongjie Liu (Beijing), Hanyu Liu (Beijing), Yangjun Shi (Beijing), Xuecheng Xing (Beijing), Yizhu Lu (Beijing), Jian Li (Beijing), Lin Lin (Beijing), Wenjing Lu (Beijing), Xiuhua Chen (Beijing) and Rongjie Gui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid monitoring and identification method for winter wheat drought levels includes: 1) obtaining multispectral images and ground-measured LAI through UAV-based multi-payload low-altitude remote sensing technolog...