SP-search: A new algorithm for star pattern recognition

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 102 II, Issue , 1999, Pages 1165-1174

  Mortari, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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EID: 0003380258     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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