Navigation aiding based on coupled online mosaicking and camera scanning

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1866-1882

  Indelman, Vadim ^a,c   Gurfil, Pini ^a,c   Rivlin, Ehud ^a,d   Rotstein, Hector ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAFAEL   (Israel)

^c Faculty of Aerospace Engineering   (Israel)

^d Department of Computer Science ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; CAMERAS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; TEXTURES;

AIDED NAVIGATIONS; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; GLOBAL NAVIGATION; LOW COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; MOSAIC CONSTRUCTION; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; STATISTICAL SIMULATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 78149257598     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.48134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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