Patent Document ID: 20130013185
Application ID: 13590735
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for generating a map of a target area, comprising: a global position receiver; an elevation measurement unit, adaptably mountable to a vehicle or a platform; a global positioning antenna, adaptably mountable to the vehicle or the platform; an attitude measurement unit, adapatably mountable to the vehicle or the platform; an imaging sensor system, adapatably mountable to the vehicle or the platform having a view of the target area, comprising: a mount unit, having at least three imaging sensors disposed within the mount unit, wherein a first imaging sensor, a second imaging sensor and a third 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 of the target area comprising a first data array of pixels, the second imaging sensor generates a second image area of the target area comprising a second data array of pixels and the third imaging sensor generates a third image area of the target area comprising a third data array of pixels, wherein the second imaging sensor is offset from the first imaging sensor along a first array axis in across track, cross-eyed fashion to have a first image overlap area in the target area, wherein the third imaging sensor is offset from the first imaging sensor along the first array axis opposite the second imaging sensor; and a computer in communication with the elevation measurement unit, the global positioning antenna, the attitude measurement unit, the first, second and third imaging sensors; correlating at least a portion of the image area from the first, second and third imaging sensors 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.