An ultra compact laser terrain mapper for deployment onboard unmanned aerial vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7307, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hussein, Marwan W ^a   Tripp, Jeffrey W ^a   Hill, Brian R ^a  

^a Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compact lidar; Reconnaissance lidar; UAV terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER TERRAIN MAPPERS; AIRBORNE LASERS; AIRBORNE LIDAR; ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY; CIVIL APPLICATIONS; COMPACT LASERS; COMPACT LIDAR; COMPACT SIZE; CONTROL ELECTRONICS; DATA COLLECTION; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; LIDAR SYSTEMS; LONG RANGE; POSITION-ORIENTATION; POWER CONSTRAINTS; RECONNAISSANCE LIDAR; SYSTEM DESIGN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UAV TERRAIN MAPPING;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; LASERS; MAPPING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; POWDERS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 69549103336     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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