UAV path planning for maximum visibility of ground targets in an urban area

13th Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kim, Jongrae ^a   Crassidis, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b State University of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Path planning; Target tracking; UAV

Indexed keywords

CAMERA FIELDS; GROUND TARGET; MOVING TARGETS; OPTIMAL PATHS; PATH LENGTH; PATH-PLANNING; RANDOM SAMPLING METHOD; TRANSITION PATHS; UAV; URBAN AREAS;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION FUSION; OPTIMIZATION; TARGET TRACKING; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VISIBILITY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 79952422408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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