US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on Aug. 25 for "System and method for vegetation detection from aerial photogrammetric multispectral data" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,558, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"System and method for vegetation detection from aerial photogrammetric multispectral data" was invented by Aravind Harikumar (Mississauga, Canada) and Ingo Ensminger (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vegetation detection from aerial photogrammetric multispectral data. The method includes: detecting apexes in a height model using Local Maxima (LM) detection; detecting vegetation as detected apexes; performing orthorectification to derive an orthomosaic; generating a fractional map of a vegetatio...