Pilot performance as a function of display resolution and field of view in a simulated terrain following flight task using a synthetic vision system

AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Keller, Michael ^a   Schnell, Thomas ^a   Lemos, Katherine ^a   Glaab, Louis ^b   Parrish, Russell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; AVIATORS; CAMERA LENSES; DISPLAY DEVICES; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PERFORMANCE;

DISPLAY RESOLUTION; FIELD OF VIEW; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGN; PILOTS; SYNTHETIC VISION SYSTEM;

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0345413482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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