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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2022
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Chongya Jiang, Urbana, IL (US);
Kaiyu Guan, Urbana, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
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 imagery having similar geographical and time-stamped information. A machined-learning model will take the near surface imagery and be trained to apply the information to the remote imagery of the air or satellite to be applied to a greater area, which provides plant growth information to the wide area of the remote imagery.