Patent ID: 8873842

Claim:
A network-based system for obtaining information from imagery, the system comprising: an image analysis subsystem configured to: present imagery, via a network communication channel, to a plurality of worker interfaces configured to be executed on a respective plurality of network devices, wherein each of the plurality of worker interfaces comprises a user interface configured to: display the imagery; allow a user to click using a pointer device moving an indicator on a display; receive a user click at a click location; place a mark on the imagery at the click location; remove the mark responsive to a second click at the click location; and submit the mark as the user response; receive, via the network communication channel, a plurality of user responses regarding the imagery; and automatically determine a count of one or more object of interests present in the imagery based on the user responses; and a non-spatial correlation subsystem configured to: automatically correlate the count of the objects with a non-spatial data; and automatically predict a future non-spatial data based on a future count and the correlation between the non-spatial data and the count.