This invention describes a drone equipped with a special camera that can analyze plant health data while flying and send simplified information to a ground computer. The drone carries a general-purpose computer that runs custom software to process the camera's data in real-time. The claims narrow this to a method for calibrating the camera by flying it low, less than 10 meters, over plant rows to capture close-up images, sometimes by attaching the camera to a moving line or cable.
Why it matters: Filed when on-board processing for hyperspectral data was severely constrained. Advances in edge computing and wireless communication since 2018 now make real-time analysis on a UAV more feasible.
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