Patents by Inventor Victor H. Leonard

Victor H. Leonard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Integrated architecture for near-real-time satellite imaging applications
    Patent number: 10014928
    Abstract: A system for operating an integrated architecture for near real-time satellite communications, comprising a plurality of collector satellites augment by aerial and terrestrial sensing systems that capture a plurality of EO, SAR and/or Signals sensor data of a portion of a region of the surface of the Earth, and a plurality of connector satellites that communicate with at least a collector satellite using a communication interface, and a method for using advanced environmental monitoring to adaptively task a collector satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: DIGITALGLOBE, INC.
    Inventor: Victor H Leonard
  • INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE FOR NEAR-REAL-TIME SATELLITE IMAGING APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20160020848
    Abstract: A system for operating an integrated architecture for near real-time satellite communications, comprising a plurality of collector satellites augment by aerial and terrestrial sensing systems that capture a plurality of EO, SAR and/or Signals sensor data of a portion of a region of the surface of the Earth, and a plurality of connector satellites that communicate with at least a collector satellite using a communication interface, and a method for using advanced environmental monitoring to adaptively task a collector satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Victor H Leonard
  • Using parallax in remote sensing to determine cloud feature height
    Patent number: 9001311
    Abstract: Techniques for using small parallax angles in remote sensing to determine cloud feature height include exploiting two identical medium-resolution SWIR bands with parallax to estimate cloud edge feature heights well enough to enable assessments of the impacts of shadows and proximate cloud scattering on ground illumination, and hence, on reflectance calculations. The bands are intentionally designed to have a suitable parallax angle, in one embodiment approximately 1.5 degrees. With this parallax, one band will see more ground pixels than the other band as they encounter a leading edge of a cloud and the other band will see more ground pixels than the one band as they encounter the lagging edge of the cloud. From these numbers of pixels, the height of the leading and lagging edges of the cloud can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: DigitalGlobe, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor H. Leonard, Francis W. Gerlach
  • USING PARALLAX IN REMOTE SENSING TO DETERMINE CLOUD FEATURE HEIGHT
    Publication number: 20140268094
    Abstract: Techniques for using small parallax angles in remote sensing to determine cloud feature height include exploiting two identical medium-resolution SWIR bands with parallax to estimate cloud edge feature heights well enough to enable assessments of the impacts of shadows and proximate cloud scattering on ground illumination, and hence, on reflectance calculations. The bands are intentionally designed to have a suitable parallax angle, in one embodiment approximately 1.5 degrees. With this parallax, one band will see more ground pixels than the other band as they encounter a leading edge of a cloud and the other band will see more ground pixels than the one band as they encounter the lagging edge of the cloud. From these numbers of pixels, the height of the leading and lagging edges of the cloud can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: DIGITALGLOBE, INC.
    Inventors: Victor H. Leonard, Francis W. Gerlach