US Patent Issued to NANJING MAOTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Method of individual tree crown segmentation from airborne LiDAR data using novel gaussian filter and energy function minimization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,731, issued on April 15, was assigned to NANJING MAOTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (China).

"Method of individual tree crown segmentation from airborne LiDAR data using novel gaussian filter and energy function minimization" was invented by Ting Yun (Nanjing, China), Kang Jiang (Nanjing, China), Guangchao Li (Nanjing, China), Yiduo Li (Nanjing, China) and Lin Cao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of individual tree crown segmentation from airborne LiDAR data using a novel Gaussian filter and energy function minimization. First, a dual Gaussian filter was designed with automated adaptive paramet...