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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
Geomni, Inc., Jersey City, NJ (US);
Jeffery D. Lewis, Orem, UT (US);
Jeffrey C. Taylor, Sandy, UT (US);
Corey D. Reed, Cedar Hills, UT (US);
Troy Tomkinson, Saratoga Springs, UT (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system and method for mission planning and flight automation for an unmanned aircraft comprising generating an aerial imagery map of a capture area; generating a flight plan based on criteria for capturing images used to create a model of a feature present in the images; comparing the generated aerial imagery map with the generated flight plan; determining whether there is a possible collision between an obstacle associated with the generated aerial imagery map and the unmanned aircraft along a flight path of the generated flight plan; and executing, based on the determination, the generated flight plan.