ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,189, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nanjing Forestry University (Nanjing, China).
"Method for extracting forest parameters of wetland with high canopy density based on consumer-grade UAV image" was invented by Jianyu Chen (Nanjing, China), Haibo Hu (Nanjing, China), Weibo Shi (Nanjing, China) and Ziyi Zhu (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting forest parameters of a wetland with high canopy density based on a consumer-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image is provided, which belongs to the technical field of wetland forest investigation. The method includes: collecting image data using a consumer-...