Patent ID: 11882798
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 26:
27. A method comprising steps of:
obtaining, from a ground-based sensor suite comprising a plurality of sensors, associated with a ground-based seeding suite comprising a plurality of seeding apparatus, weather and cloud system data, said weather and cloud system data comprising at least one of atmospheric temperature, atmospheric wind components, atmospheric aerosol size distribution and atmospheric cloud hydrometeor size distribution;
based on said weather and cloud system data, determining:
an appropriate seeding material to be used;
which individual ones of said ground-based seeding apparatus to activate, and when; and
a rate at which to disperse said appropriate seeding material, wherein said determining said rate comprises estimating a rate of seeding required to modify measured cloud hydrometeor size distribution for a seeding effect; and
wherein said appropriate seeding material to be used and the rate at which to disperse said appropriate seeding material are based at least on temperature and updraft velocity; and

sending control signals to said individual ones of said ground-based seeding apparatus, to cause same to emit seeding material, in accordance with said determining step.