Aircraft conflict prediction in the presence of a spatially correlated wind field

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 326-340

  Hu, Jianghai ^a,b   Prandini, Maria ^a,c   Sastry, Shankar ^a,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Conflict prediction; Stochastic approximation; Stochastic fields; Stochastic modeling; Wind correlation

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT PREDICTION; STOCHASTIC FIELDS; STOCHASTIC MODELING; WIND CORRELATION;

AIRCRAFT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 27744463847     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2005.853699     Document Type: Article

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