US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Feb. 17 for "System and method to fuse multiple sources of optical data to generate a high-resolution, frequent and cloud-/gap-free surface reflectance product" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,208, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"System and method to fuse multiple sources of optical data to generate a high-resolution, frequent and cloud-/gap-free surface reflectance product" was invented by Kaiyu Guan (Urbana, Ill.), Jian Peng (Champaign, Ill.) and Yunan Luo (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, performing, by a processing system, image fusion using two or more groups of images to generate predicted images, wherein each group of the two or more groups has one of a different resolution, ...