Prospecting for in situ resources on the moon and mars using wheel-based sensors

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Buehler, M G ^a   Anderson, R C ^a   Seshadri, S ^a   Schaap, M G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR MINERALS; MINERAL PROSPECTING; WHEEL BASED SENSORS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOON; SPACECRAFT;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751513077     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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