ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,052, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AIDash Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for identifying trees and estimating tree heights and other tree parameters" was invented by Shantanu Rajora (San Francisco) and Nitin Das (Gurugram, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving georeferenced satellite images of a geographic region that includes electrical assets. Segmentation maps are generated by providing the georeferenced satellite images to fully convolutional networks to classify pixels of the georeferenced satellite images as either trees or non-trees. Rasters of the geographic region are...