A system for obstacle detection during rotorcraft low altitude flight

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 875-897

  Bhanu, Bir ^a,b   Das, Subhodev ^a   Duncan, Barry Roberts Dave ^a  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

^b HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; OPTICAL FLOWS; SENSORS;

ACTIVE SENSORS; BINOCULAR STEREO; MOTION ANALYSIS; OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM; PASSIVE SENSORS; ROTORCRAFT;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030195426     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.532250     Document Type: Article

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