US Patent Issued to AEROSPACE INFORMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for patching cloud area of satellite image sequencing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,121, issued on May 27, was assigned to AEROSPACE INFORMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for patching cloud area of satellite image sequencing" was invented by Changmiao Hu (Beijing), Ping Tang (Beijing), Zheng Zhang (Beijing), Lianzhi Huo (Beijing), Hongyi Li (Beijing) and Xiaojun Shan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for patching a cloud area of a satellite image sequence. The method includes: identifying and expanding a cloud area and a cloud shadow area from each of a plurality of multispectral images of a target area and generating a plurality of ...