Development, system integration and flight testing of a high-resolution imaging system for small UAS

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jones, Kevin D ^a   Dobrokhodov, Vladimir ^a   Kaminer, Isaac ^a   Lee, Deok Jin ^a   Bourakov, Eugene ^b   Clement, Michael R ^b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School ^*  (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CONTROLS; COMPLETE SYSTEM; CONTROL CAPABILITIES; DATA RETRIEVAL; DIGITAL MAP; DIGITAL STILL IMAGES; DUAL USE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLIGHT TESTING; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; GROUND-TRACK; HIGH-QUALITY IMAGERY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; LOW COSTS; ONBOARD COMPUTERS; PATH FOLLOWING; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SENSOR FUNCTION; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; TACTICAL NETWORK;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT PATHS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 78549254173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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