US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Nov. 11 for "Monitoring plant growth conditions by coupling near surface and remote sensing imageries" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,672, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Monitoring plant growth conditions by coupling near surface and remote sensing imageries" was invented by Chongya Jiang (Urbana, Ill.) and Kaiyu Guan (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more cameras or other image collecting devices are used at or near the surface of a field including crops to acquire images of the crop canopy. This can be done by tilting the cameras relative to the zenith. Additional imagery, such as airborne or satellite of the same crop canopies is also acquired, with at least some of the im...