Patent ID: 9389298
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G01C,G01S,G03B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system for generating a map of a target area, comprising: a global positioning receiver; an elevation measurement unit, adaptably mountable to a vehicle; a global positioning antenna, adaptably mountable to the vehicle; an attitude measurement unit, adaptably mountable to the vehicle; an imaging sensor system, adaptably mountable to the vehicle having a view of the target area, comprising: a rigid mount unit having at least two imaging sensors disposed within the mount unit, wherein a first imaging sensor and a second imaging sensor each has a focal axis passing through an aperture in the mount unit, wherein the first imaging sensor generates a first image area comprising a first data array of pixels and the second imaging sensor generates a second image area comprising a second data array of pixels, wherein the first and second imaging sensors are offset to have a first image overlap area in the target area, wherein the first sensors image data bisects the second sensors image data in the first image overlap area; and a computer in communication with the elevation measurement unit, the global positioning antenna, the attitude measurement unit, the first imaging sensor, and the second imaging sensor; correlating at least a portion of the image areas from the first imaging sensor and the second imaging sensor to a portion of the target area based on input from one or more of: the elevation measurement unit, the global positioning antenna and the attitude measurement unit.