MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421036177 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on May 7, 2024, for 'system and method for estimating crop water requirement using multi-sensor data fusion.'
Inventor(s) include Sawant, Suryakant Ashok; Kumar, Jay Prakash; Mohite, Jayantrao; Pandit, Ankur; and Pappula, Srinivasu.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This disclosure relates generally to system and method for estimating crop water requirement using multi-sensor data fusion. Increasing global population is imparting pressure on both agriculture for food demand and limited freshwater resources for consumption. Estimating crop water requirement reduces water demand for crop production. The method divides soil and crop into multiple vertical and horizontal profiles to estimate water balance thereby reducing the errors in estimation of crop water requirement. Additionally, the method has capability to interlink the multiple data sets such as satellite based earth observations, weather observations from IoT sensors, Weather forecasts from global circulation models, and crop knowledge base for crop water requirement estimation. The method is based on spatio-temporal modeling for multi-layer crop and soil water balance and helps to generate the additional insights on crop water requirement like moisture at different levels in soil profile, crop canopy growth at different locations."
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