Airborne biota monitoring and control system
First Claim
1. A system for detecting and disabling or killing harmful airborne biota, particularly insects, comprising:
- at least one energy-transmitting transmitter positioned to emit a beam of detection energy over or around an area to be protected from said harmful airborne biota, a receiver of a return signal of said detection energy from said harmful airborne biota, one or more data processors for processing said return signal and identifying said airborne biota, a harmful airborne biota killing or disabling system responsive to said one or more data processors.
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Abstract
A method and system for identifying harmful airborne biota, particularly insects, and including plant material, such as mold spores and pollen, and flying insects and birds and either killing ordisabling the harmful airborne biota is disclosed. Lasers, radar, and other types of radiation may be used to illuminate at least a perimeter around assets to be protected, with radiation returns detected and applied to a pattern classifier to determine whether the detected insects of interests are harmful, benign or beneficial. In the event the insects are determined to be harmful, a variety of measures responsive to the radiation returns may be taken to eliminate the harmful insects, these measures including firing pulses of beamed energy or radiation of a sufficient intensity to at least incapacitate them, or mechanical measures such as controlled drone aircraft to track and kill the pests.
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12 Claims
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1. A system for detecting and disabling or killing harmful airborne biota, particularly insects, comprising:
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at least one energy-transmitting transmitter positioned to emit a beam of detection energy over or around an area to be protected from said harmful airborne biota, a receiver of a return signal of said detection energy from said harmful airborne biota, one or more data processors for processing said return signal and identifying said airborne biota, a harmful airborne biota killing or disabling system responsive to said one or more data processors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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