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Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

May. 28, 2015
Applicants:

The University of North Carolina AT Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (US);

North Carolina Department of Transportation, Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Sheng-Guo Wang, Charlotte, NC (US);

Libin Bai, Charlotte, NC (US);

Jing Deng, Charlotte, NC (US);

Meijuan Jia, Charlotte, NC (US);

Morgan Weatherford, Raleigh, NC (US);

LeiLani Paugh, Louisburg, NC (US);

Wenwu Tang, Charlotte, NC (US);

Mingzhi Chen, Fuzhou, CN;

Shen-En Chen, Charlotte, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/48 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G01S 17/88 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G01S 17/88 (2013.01); G06F 17/5009 (2013.01); G06K 9/0063 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present application are directed to an automation process method to generate a set of wetland predictive variables using Light Detection and Ranging ('LiDAR') data within a geographic information system ('GIS') software platform, according to some embodiments, and to model and predict wetland in ArcGIS platform using the generated variable set. The automatic process also can run analysis on and display of the predicted wetland. The process is built by developing modules and connection in GIS. The above mentioned processes are automatically run and may just be run by one-button press, or on click, or separate buttons press, or separate clicks.


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