MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050103 A) filed by Brunda G; Dr. Geetha J; Jayatheertha S G; Laksha Ravi; Dr. Parkavi A; Dr. R. China Appala Naidu; and Uzma Sulthana, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on April 20, for 'system for satellite-based elephant detection and early warning.'
Inventor(s) include Brunda G; Dr. Geetha J; Jayatheertha S G; Laksha Ravi; Dr. Parkavi A.; Dr. R. China Appala Naidu; and Uzma Sulthana.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system for satellite-based elephant detection and early warning. The system receives optical multispectral imagery and synthetic aperture radar imagery of a monitored region and preprocesses the imagery through georeferencing, denoising, normalization, tiling, and land-type segmentation. A hardware-accelerated inference subsystem including one or more GPUs and/or edge AI devices identifies elephants and herd formations from the preprocessed imagery. A temporal analysis subsystem compares current detections with stored historical detections to estimate movement direction and conflict probability with respect to agricultural fields, villages, transport routes, and other risk zones. A geospatial localization subsystem maps the detections and predicted paths, while an alert dissemination subsystem automatically transmits warnings to farmers, authorities, dashboards, and mobile devices. Optional acoustic sensors, thermal validation devices, and secure event logging may be incorporated. The invention provides non-intrusive, scalable, large-area monitoring and proactive conflict mitigation for reducing human-elephant interactions."
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