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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2002
Ernest A. Carroll, Herndon, VA (US);
Christopher M. Gardner, Woodbridge, VA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method of making geospatial imagery data available to the public over a wide ranging communications network such as the internet. Geospatial images are acquired, such as by aerial photography, and are digitized. Plural images are captured, each image covering a portion of the earth surface area of interest. Each image captures at least one characteristic of the portion of the area, such as by taking images in different frequency bands. Data from all images thus obtained is loaded into a common database, loaded into a computer, and integrated to create a single resultant collectively create geospatial image stored in the computer. The integration process is performed so that a nearly seamless mosaiced image covering the entire area of interest is generated. The mosaiced image is stored in mosaic sector form.