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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Natural Environment Research Council, Wiltshire, GB;
Inventor:
Paul Bell, Liverpool, GB;
Assignee:
Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, Wiltshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G01C 5/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G06T 7/579 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0071 (2013.01); G01C 5/00 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G06T 7/579 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10044 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30181 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of mapping an inter-tidal area, comprising: obtaining, over a period of time, image data comprising: a sequence of images of the inter-tidal area at a range of different stages of the tide, and the time at which each image was obtained; determining an elevation of a location in the image, by correlating the changes in an image value over time at the location with tidal data comprising the elevation of the tide over the period of time.