US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DS GEO on June 17 for "Method for georeferencing of a digital elevation model" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,344, issued on June 17, was assigned to AIRBUS DS GEO SA (Toulouse, France).

"Method for georeferencing of a digital elevation model" was invented by Philippe Nonin (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for referencing a digital elevation model (10), involving a step of obtaining (110) two SAR images (12, 14) having a common area (15) that their area of overlap (16, 17) shares with the digital model (10); the method (100) involving, for the SAR images (12, 14), steps of: selecting (120) an AOI (18) in the common area (15); calculating (130) a simulated image (22) in the AOI (18); estimating (140) an offset (...