US Patent Issued to FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MNR on May 20 for "Identification method of seabed weak echoes by airborne LiDAR bathymetry and system thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,340, issued on May 20, was assigned to FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, MNR (Qingdao, China).

"Identification method of seabed weak echoes by airborne LiDAR bathymetry and system thereof" was invented by Wenxue Xu (Qingdao, China), Yanxiong Liu (Qingdao, China), Yadong Guo (Qingdao, China), Yikai Feng (Qingdao, China), Deming Ma (Qingdao, China), Jie Li (Qingdao, China) and Qiuhua Tang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification method of seabed weak echoes in airborne LiDAR bathymetry and a system thereof are provided, which belong to the technical field of marine surveying and mapping. The method includes: divi...