Vegetation index image generation methods and systems
AssigneeUniversity of Delaware
InventorsYong Q. Kang, Young-Heon Jo, Xiao-Hai Yan
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Abstract
Methods and systems for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region are disclosed by the present invention. The vegetation index image is generated by identifying one or more obscured locations within the geographic region, determining a vegetation index value for each location within the geographic region, replacing the determined vegetation index value for each obscured location with a predetermined replacement value for that location, and generating a vegetation index image based on the predetermined replacement values for the obscured locations and the determined vegetation index values for the non-obscured locations.
Claims20
A method for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region having a plurality of locations, the method comprising the steps of:
- identifying one or more obscured locations from the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- determining a vegetation index value for each of the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- replacing the determined vegetation index value for each of the identified obscured locations with a predetermined replacement value for that location;
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- generating a vegetation index image based on the predetermined replacement values for the obscured locations and the determined vegetation index values for non-obscured locations.
A computer readable medium including software that is configured to control a general purpose computer to implement a method for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region having a plurality of locations, the method including the steps of:
- identifying one or more obscured locations from the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- determining a vegetation index value for each of the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- replacing the determined vegetation index value for each of the identified obscured locations with a predetermined replacement value for that location;
- and
- generating a vegetation index image based on the predetermined replacement values for the obscured locations and the determined vegetation index values for non-obscured locations.
A system for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region having a plurality of locations, the system comprising:
- means for identifying one or more obscured locations from the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- means for determining a vegetation index value for each of the plurality of locations within the geographic region;
- means for replacing the determined vegetation index value for each of the identified obscured locations with a predetermined replacement value for that location;
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- means for generating a vegetation index image based on the predetermined replacement values for the obscured locations and the determined vegetation index values for non-obscured locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.