Visual terrain mapping for Mars exploration

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-85

  Olson, Clark F ^a   Matthies, Larry H ^b   Wright, John R ^b   Li, Rongxing ^c   Di, Kaichang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Localization; Mars; Robot navigation; Stereo vision; Structure from motion; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION; ORBITS; SENSORS;

FIXED-RESOLUTION MAPS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; STRUCTURE-FROM-MOTION; TERRAIN MAPPING;

MAPPING;

EID: 33845799296     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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