US 12,239,105 B2
Method and apparatus for determining an index of insect biodiversity, an insect sensor and a system of insect sensors
Klas Rydhmer, Malmö (SE); Thomas Nikolajsen, Slangerup (DK); Laurence Still, Copenhagen S (DK); Mikkel Brydegaard Sörensen, Lund (SE); Flemming Bent Rasmussen, Frederiksberg (DK); and Alfred Gösta Victor Strand, Malmö (SE)
Assigned to FaunaPhotonics Agriculture & Environmental A/S, Copenhagen SV (DK)
Appl. No. 17/904,422
Filed by FaunaPhotonics Agriculture & Environmental A/S, Copenhagen SV (DK)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/054181
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/165479, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20158120 (EP), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106933 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G06V 10/762 (2022.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 29/00 (2013.01) [G06V 10/762 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for determining an index of insect biodiversity, comprising:
a plurality of insect sensor devices configured to be individually positioned within a geographic area, each of the plurality of insect sensor devices configured to:
monitor insect activity within a detection volume extending outside the insect sensor device, and
output detector data indicative of one or more detected attributes associated with respective detected insect detection events, each insect detection event being indicative of one or more insects being present in the detection volume;
a data processing system communicatively coupled to the plurality of insect sensor devices and configured to:
receive the detector data from respective ones of the plurality of insect sensor devices, the detector data being indicative of one or more detected attributes associated with respective detected insect detection events, and
compute, from the received detector data, an index of insect biodiversity indicative of insect biodiversity within the geographic area,
wherein the detected insect detection events are taxonomically unclassified and wherein the data processing system is configured to compute the index of insect biodiversity directly from the detected attributes associated with the taxonomically unclassified detection events.