Two or more aerial vehicles, such as drones, can each include one or more cameras for capturing surveying or other image data within a field of view. Some of the image data, as well as other data, can be stored and pre-processed on the vehicles, including via onboard edge computing devices. The image and/or other data can be analyzed by a remote system or service, which has additional computing resources, and used to determine the occurrence or existence of an anomaly, such as a seismic event or structure identified in the field of view. The anomaly determination may be based on a disparity, involving a distance between cameras, the cameras' focal length, and a perpendicular distance from a point between cameras to a surface or subsurface point.
Aerial array surveying of surfaces and subsurfaces
2023-10-31
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G06V / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64U / G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung / G06N COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS , Rechnersysteme, basierend auf spezifischen Rechenmodellen / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / H04L TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION , Übertragung digitaler Information, z.B. Telegrafieverkehr / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen |
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