Vision-based positioning and terrain mapping by global alignment for UAVs

Proceedings - IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 305-312

  Madjidi, H ^a   Negahdaripour, S ^a   Bandari, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Layout; Mobile robots; Motion estimation; Navigation; Reconnaissance; Remotely operated vehicles; Surveillance; Terrain mapping; Three dimensional displays; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; MAPS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MONITORING; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; FRAME-TO-FRAME MOTION ESTIMATION; LAYOUT; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RECONNAISSANCE; TERRAIN MAPPING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY; VISION-BASED POSITIONING;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 29844439627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2003.1217936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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