Patent ID: 8660382

Claim:
A system comprising: a computer system running image processing software that when executed by the computer system causes the computer system to: receive an identification of a desired geographical area to be imaged and collected into an oblique-mosaic image; create a mathematical model of a virtual camera looking down at an oblique angle, the mathematical model having an oblique-mosaic pixel map of the desired geographical area encompassing multiple source images; assign surface locations to pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map; create a ground elevation model of the ground and vertical structures within the oblique-mosaic pixel map using overlapping source images of the desired geographical area, wherein the source images were captured at an oblique angle and compass direction similar to the oblique angle and compass direction of the virtual camera; and reproject, with the mathematical model, source oblique image pixels of the overlapping source images for pixels included in the oblique-mosaic pixel map using the ground elevation model to thereby create an oblique-mosaic image of the desired area.