Unmanned aircraft navigation for shipboard landing using infrared vision

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1181-1200

  Yakimenko, O A ^a   Kaminer, I I ^a   Lentz, W J ^a   Ghyzel, P A ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED IMAGING; NAVIGATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRACKING (POSITION);

INFRARED VISION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 0036822058     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2002.1145742     Document Type: Article

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