Patent ID: 8249306
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G01V,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: sending a digital aerial image to a user via a network; receiving a marked-up version of the digital aerial image from the user via the network that includes one or more environmental landmarks or virtual white lines sketched on the digital aerial image in advance of excavation activities and at a first user location remote from a dig area to delimit the dig area in which the excavation activities are planned, wherein sketching the environmental landmarks or the virtual white lines on the digital aerial image is performed without acquiring geographic coordinates to delimit the dig area; and providing the marked-up version of the digital aerial image including the environmental landmarks or the virtual white lines sketched on the digital aerial image in advance of the excavation activities and at the first user location remote from the dig area to delimit the dig area in which the excavation activities are planned, via one of an electronic or tangible delivery system, to another entity.