US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on July 7 for "Systems and methods for high-resolution soil and vegetation moisture content monitoring using full polarimetric global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,767, issued on July 7, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for high-resolution soil and vegetation moisture content monitoring using full polarimetric global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals" was invented by Kamal Oudrhiri (Pasadena, Calif.), Javier Bosch-Lluis (Pasadena, Calif.), Nereida Rodriguez Alvarez (Pasadena, Calif.) and Joan F. Munoz (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment includes a system for moisture content detection and surface evaluation, including a set of one or more antennas, a radiometer, a reflectometer, a set of one or more c...