ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,933, issued on April 21.
"On-board satellite crop analysis apparatus and method of use thereof" was invented by Thomas George (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method for managing cropland, comprising the steps of: (1) measuring, each of a set of spatially resolved locations, level zero data with an orbiting satellite, the level zero data comprising, spectral responses in ranges of 400 to 1,100; 700 to 2,500; and 2,500 to 12,000 nm; (2) processing, on-board the orbiting satellite, the level zero data comprising a first data storage size, to yield crop condition information comprising a second data...