Automated metadata generation from full motion video

Abstract

A system and method for generating metadata to accompany motion imagery data captured by an Unmanned Aerial System or similar platform extracts heads-up display content from the video content of the motion imagery data and correlates the extracted content with at least one metadata field to provide extracted metadata. The extracted metadata may be supplemented with synchronous metadata included in the motion imagery data, if any is available. Camera footprint coordinates are then computed using the extracted and optionally the supplementary metadata. Computation of the camera footprint coordinates may include simulating metadata such as sensor coordinates, timestamp, altitude, and/or heading angle, or deriving further metadata such as speed and rates of change of altitude and heading angle.

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