Detection of obstacles in the flight path of an aircraft

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 176-191

  Gandhi, Tarak ^a   Yang, Mau Tsuen ^b   Kasturi, Rangachr ^c   Camps, Octavia ^d   Coraor, Lee ^c   McCandless, Jeffrey ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AVIATION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; VIDEO CAMERAS;

COLLISION COURSE; FLIGHT PATH; OBJECT DETECTION;

SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0038417048     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1188902     Document Type: Article

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