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Airborne biota monitoring and control system
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Inventors: Guice, David L.; Green, Augustus H.; Dent, Jr., William V.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Gregory; Bernarr E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Clodfelter; Mark
A method and system for detecting airborne plant material, such as mold spores and pollen, and flying insects and birds, and classifying them as to whether they are harmful to field crops, production animals or other assets within a protected volume or area. Lasers, radar, and other types of radiation may be used to illuminate at least a perimeter around such assets to be protected, with radiation returns detected and applied to a pattern classifier to determine whether the detected objects of interest are harmful, benign or beneficial. In the event the objects are determined to be harmful (pests), a variety of measures controllable via the radiation returns may be taken to eliminate the harmful objects, these measures including firing pulses of laser, microwave or other radiation of a sufficient intensity to at least incapacitate them, or mechanical measures such as controlled drone aircraft to macerate the pests with propellers or spray limited amounts of pesticide in the area of the pests. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The instant invention combines knowledge of physical and behavioral characteristics of insect pests, beneficials, and neutrals, as well as other biota, with knowledge of capabilities and limitations of several radio frequency (RF) (including radar), optical (including ladar), and semiconductor sensor, processing, and communication technologies.
It also provides an innovative method for integrating certain combinations of RF and optical sensor technologies with other materials, procedures, and technologies into an outdoor or indoor environment in a manner which exploits strengths of RF and optical sensor technologies while accommodating their weaknesses to provide an effective and safe system.
In various embodiments, the system of the instant invention detects insects and other airborne biota attempting to enter (or in some embodiments, attempting or also attempting to leave) a protected region, volume, or area in a field crop, animal production, orchard, timber, horticultural, plant nursery, recreational, or other environment containing assets for which monitoring of, or protection from, airborne insects and other biota is desired.
The system further provides a useful degree of classification of detected airborne biota specimens as pests, beneficials, or neutrals, or in some cases simply pests, or nonpests relative to the protected assets.
In some embodiments, useful estimates of relative numbers of pest, beneficial, and neutral (or simply pests or nonpests) insects and other biota entering, or leaving, or present in, a given environment are provided.
Also, in some embodiments, precision control measures such as directed energy weapons such as lasers, high power microwave or small remotely controlled unmanned aircraft to kill or incapacitate insects and other biota identified as pests for given protected assets or environment are provided.
In some enhanced embodiments, automated means of monitoring for presence of insect pests and other biota within protected assets or protected volume (e
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