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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2014
Weyerhaeuser Nr Company, Federal Way, WA (US);
Yuzhen Li, Shoreline, WA (US);
Zhenkui Ma, Kent, WA (US);
Weyerhaeuser NR Company, Federal Way, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer system is programmed to analyze data from aerial images and LiDAR data obtained from a region of interest in order to determine whether a group of LiDAR data points representing an individual item of vegetation (i.e. a blob) is a particular type of vegetation. Infrared data from aerial images of the region of interest is stretched and divided by red spectral data to compute an objective-stretched vegetation index value (OVI) for a pixel. The mean LiDAR intensity and the mean OVI for the LiDAR data points and the pixels in the area of a blob are used to predict what type of vegetation is represented in the area of the blob.