An innovative procedure for calibration of strapdown electro-optical sensors onboard unmanned air vehicles

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 639-654

  Fasano, Giancarmine ^a   Accardo, Domenico ^a   Moccia, Antonio ^a   Rispoli, Attilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alignment; Attitude and heading reference system; Boresighting; Carrier phase differential GPS; Electro optical sensors; Q method; Target pixel extraction

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE AND HEADING REFERENCE SYSTEMS; BORESIGHTING; CARRIER-PHASE DIFFERENTIAL GPS; ELECTROOPTICAL SENSORS; PIXEL EXTRACTION; Q-METHOD;

ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OBSTACLE DETECTORS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

ACCELERATION; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; ITALY; ROBOTICS; STANDARD; TRANSDUCER;

ACCELERATION; AIRCRAFT; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; ROBOTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77953674607     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100100639     Document Type: Article

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