US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 27 for "Object detection over water using normalized difference vegetation index system and method" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,250, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Object detection over water using normalized difference vegetation index system and method" was invented by Marc A. Kolodner (Gaithersburg, Md.), Shea T. Hagstrom (Columbia, Md.) and Leo A. Morris (Severna Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for object detection over water are provided. The method includes acquiring, from a storage system, image data associated with a target area. The image data includes radiance of a plurality of pixels in a first spectral band in a second spectral band. The method also includes determining a...