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US 2014/0279812 A1Published application
Combinatorics Approach to Probabilistic Geolocation
AssigneeSRC, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Ryon McKay, Jonathan David Adelman
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Abstract
A method and system for geolocation. The method and system determines the geographic history of a target of interest (i.e., the probability that a sample of interest passed though a defined location) given a combination of spatially attributable input data and weighing distributions.
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A probabilistic geolocation method, the method comprising:
- acquiring spatially associated data from an obtained sample of interest;
- enumerating all possible travel routes the sample of interest may have passed through based on the spatially associated data;
- inputting said enumerated possible travel routes into a computer processor;
- determining, by said processor, the frequency with which each possible geographic location appears in the travel routes;
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- outputting, by said processor, a probability for said each possible geographic location.
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A probabilistic geolocation system comprising:
- an enumeration module programmed to enumerate all possible travel routes a sample of interest may have passed through based on spatially associated data;
- a frequency determination module connected to said enumeration module and programmed to determine the frequency with which each possible geographic location appears in the travel routes;
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- an output module connected to the frequency module and structured to output to a client device a probability for said each possible location.
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