Imaging and localisation software demonstrator for planetary aerobots

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 59, Issue 8-11, 2006, Pages 1062-1070

  Barnes, David ^a   Shaw, Andy ^a   Summers, Phil ^a   Ward, Roger ^b   Woods, Mark ^b   Evans, Malcolm ^b   Paar, Gerhard ^c   Sims, Mark ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ORBITS; ROBOTS; SPACECRAFT;

AEROBOT TECHNOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING; LOCALISATION SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATOR; PLANETARY AEROBOTS;

PLANETS;

EID: 33746848985     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.07.050     Document Type: Article

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