US Patent Issued to Advanced Remote Sensing on Sept. 30 for "Model generation and application for removing atmospheric effects in imagery" (South Dakota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,717, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Advanced Remote Sensing Inc. (Hartford, S.D.).

"Model generation and application for removing atmospheric effects in imagery" was invented by David Groeneveld (Hartford, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and using statistical models to mitigate atmospheric effects in images are described. In some embodiments, a statistical model may be generated by selecting a vegetation type that grows in continuous healthy canopies; identifying a vegetation reference value that is a stable reflectance property of the vegetation type; in a plurality of images, selecting o...