MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611080911 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology Srinagar on July 01, 2026, for Real Time Aerial Vision System For Localizing And Reporting Plastic Waste.

Inventors include Veningston K; Ahsan Ul; Suhaib Ajaz; and Ronalda M.

The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a real-time vision system (100) for localizing and reporting floating plastic waste, comprising a drone (102) monitoring floating plastic waste, comprises a camera (104) capture aerial images and real-time video streams, a location tracking unit (106) generate geographic coordinate data, an edge processing unit (108) process captured image data and geospatial coordinates, further comprises a data acquisition module (110) receive real-time data, a pre-processing module (112) clean and normalize data, a pixel-wise classification module (116) classify pixels, a post-processing module (118) reduce false detections, a geo-referencing module (120) combine the segmentation mapped results, a zone-wise density analysis module (122) partition freshwater surface area into spatial zones, an output module (128) transmit real-time georeferenced detection results and waste density information to remote monitoring station, a communication network (130) establish a communication link, a user device (132) display the output to enable remote monitoring via a user interface (134).

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