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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Donald Rahmes, Melbourne, FL (US);
John Philip Karp, Indialantic, FL (US);
Assignee:
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/38 ;
Abstract
An automated method is for making a topographical model of an area including terrain and buildings thereon based upon randomly spaced data of elevation versus position. The method may include processing the randomly spaced data to generate gridded data of elevation versus position conforming to a predetermined position grid, processing the gridded data to distinguish building data from terrain data, and performing polygon extraction for the building data to make the topographical model of the area including terrain and buildings thereon.