US Patent Issued to Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology on May 19 for "Method for extracting urban flood inundation extent based on remote sensing images" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,117, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (Nanjing, China).

"Method for extracting urban flood inundation extent based on remote sensing images" was invented by Ye Tian (Nanjing, China), Shunan Xiang (Nanjing, China), Bingrong Zhou (Xining, China) and Guoqing Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting urban flood inundation extent based on remote sensing images includes: acquiring and preprocessing a Fengyun-4 satellite remote sensing image to obtain a preprocessed remote sensing image, and dividing the preprocessed remote sensing image into a thin cl...