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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2023
United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of Nasa, Washington, DC (US);
Conor A. Nixon, Greenbelt, MD (US);
Zachary Yahn, Columbia, MD (US);
Douglas Trent, Hamtpon, VA (US);
John Santerre, Berkeley, CA (US);
United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a system which determines feature metrics on a spherical surface, the system disposed at a client/server, including: a grid generation engine which generates a grid according to user configuration; a feature segmentation engine which digitizes a two-dimensional image of the spherical surface containing the feature and determines a feature location in the image, a grid overlay and enumeration engine which determines a position of the grid relative to the feature and overlays the grid onto the image to determine grid cell overlap and coverage; and a feature parameterization engine which performs analysis of the covered cells to obtain the metrics of the feature for the user; where the metrics includes a total area, a centroid, moments of inertia, a perimeter, a major axis, a compactness, an orientation, an XY bounding box, a major axis bounding box, an XY aspect ratio and a major axis aspect ratio.