MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641063955 A) filed by Sr University, Warangal, Telangana, on May 20, for 'system and method for detection of micro-drought zones.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Vedik Basetti; Dr. Chandan Kumar Shiva; and Sachidananda Sen.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for real-time detection of micro-drought zones in an agricultural field is disclosed. The system (100) comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (102) to deploy radar sensor nodes (104a-104n) across the agricultural field, a communication unit (110) to transmit data from the radar sensor nodes (104a-104n), a central monitoring unit (112) adapted to receive transmitted data. The system (100) is configured to process the reflected radar signals to perform impedance inversion, determine depth-wise soil moisture distribution based on multi-frequency backscatter analysis, generate a localized three-dimensional soil moisture profile corresponding to each radar sensor node (104a-104n), aggregate localized three-dimensional soil moisture profiles to generate a field-wide high-resolution moisture map, and identify micro-drought zones based on spatial moisture variation below a predefined threshold. The system (100) provides scalable deployment across agricultural environments while ensuring accuracy, adaptability, and efficient detection of micro-drought zones."
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