An optical system for guidance of terrain following in UAVs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Video and Signal Based Surveillance 2006, AVSS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 51-

  Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a   Thurrowgood, Saul ^a   Soccol, Dean ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFLECTION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIDEO CAMERAS;

ACTIVE SENSING; GEOMETRICAL REMAPPING; PASSIVE SENSING; REFLECTIVE SURFACE;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547335917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2006.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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