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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Shyam Boriah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vipin Kumar, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ankush Khandelwal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Xi C. Chen, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Shyam Boriah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vipin Kumar, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ankush Khandelwal, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Xi C. Chen, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A method of reducing processing time when assigning geographic areas to land cover labels using satellite sensor values includes a processor receiving a feature value for each pixel in a time series of frames of satellite sensor values, each frame containing multiple pixels and each frame covering a same geographic location. For each sub-area of the geographic location, the sub-area is assigned to one of at least three land cover labels. The processor determines a fraction function for a first sub-area assigned to a first land cover label. The sub-areas that were assigned to the first land cover label are reassigned to one of the second land cover label and the third land cover label based on the fraction functions of the sub-areas.