US Patent Issued to NEARMAP US on Feb. 17 for "Image analysis systems and methods for wildfire risk assessment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,374, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEARMAP US INC. (Lehi, Utah).

"Image analysis systems and methods for wildfire risk assessment" was invented by Julius Simonelli (San Diego) and Ilsoo Seong (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and property analysis systems are disclosed that extract vegetation location information from overhead and LIDAR images associated with a geographic location. The images are aligned based on the extracted vegetation information. Models are applied to the aligned images based on vegetation height information extracted from the LIDAR images. A...