Vision-based target geo-location using feature tracking

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 5313-5334

  Pachter, Meir ^a,c   Ceccarelli, N ^b,c   Chandler, P R ^b  

^a Wright Patterson Air Force Base

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

FLIGHT DATA; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 37249076880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-6863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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