US Patent Issued to First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources on June 23 for "Beach erosion detection and quantitative calculation method based on unmanned aerial vehicle mapping" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,673, issued on June 23, was assigned to First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (Qingdao, China).

"Beach erosion detection and quantitative calculation method based on unmanned aerial vehicle mapping" was invented by Yongzhi Wang (Qingdao, China), Changle Zhang (Qingdao, China), Jun Du (Qingdao, China), Yi Zhong (Qingdao, China) and Xiaolong Zhao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beach erosion detection and quantitative calculation method based on unmanned aerial vehicle mapping is provided, including the following steps: S1, configuring unmanned aerial vehicles; S2, obtaining beach aerial image ...