US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on June 17 for "System and method for mapping land cover types with landsat, sentinel-1, and sentinel-2 images" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,800, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"System and method for mapping land cover types with landsat, sentinel-1, and sentinel-2 images" was invented by Xiangming Xiao (Norman, Okla.) and Jie Wang (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system having a processor executing a set of instructions that cause the processor to receive first image data having pixel information of a geographic region; calculate for particular real-world locations within the geographic region, a plurality of vegetation indices with combinations of the pixel information; gener...