Visibility of road hazards in thermal, visible, and sensor-fused night-time imagery

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 523-530

  McCarley, Jason S ^a   Krebs, William K ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Night vision; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; DRIVER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDESTRIAN; SENSOR; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VISIBILITY;

EID: 0034308341     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-6870(00)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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