Comparison of two methods of surface profile extraction from multiple ultrasonic range measurements

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 833-844

  Barshan, Billur ^b   Backent, Deniz ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Map building; Morphological processing; Range measurement; Sonar; Surface profile extraction; Ultrasonic ranging systems; Voting

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SONAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

RANGE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROFILE EXTRACTION; ULTRASONIC RANGING SYSTEMS;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0033704665     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/11/6/330     Document Type: Review

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