Autonomous aerial image georeferencing for an UAVBased data collection platform using integrated navigation system

2007 ASABE Annual International Meeting, Technical Papers

Volumn 7 BOOK, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Xiang, Haitao ^a   Tian, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic georeferencing; Extended kalman filter; Inertial navigation system; Machine vision; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC GEOREFERENCING; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35649016550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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