Patent Document ID: 20100100539
Application ID: 12254610
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of utilizing high-resolution remotely sensed imagery (“imagery”) to identify terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner, the method comprising: receiving a query that includes one or more inputs that indicate attributes of the terrestrial objects, wherein results of the query will be identified images, which (1) were derived from the imagery, and (2) are associated with the terrestrial objects, which have changed in ways similar to the certain manner; from the one or more inputs of the query, determining a source set of change-detection information; referencing a dataset that stores a plurality of sets of change-detection information that are respectively associated with a plurality of objects; based on the source change-detection information, determining the results from the dataset, wherein the results include a set of images that includes content that is associated with change-detection information that is similar to the source change-detection information; ranking at least a portion of images in the set of images based on their similarity to the source change-detection information, thereby providing a plurality or ranked images, each associated with a ranking value; and presenting an indication of at least a portion of the results based on the ranking.