Mars rover localization based on feature matching between ground and orbital imagery

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 781-792

  Di, Kaichang ^a   Liu, Zhaoqin ^a   Yue, Zongyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MATCHING; FEATURE MATCHING; GROUND BASED SENSORS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCATION ERRORS; STEREO CAMERAS;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; MARS; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EMMELICHTHYIDAE;

EID: 80051881133     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/pers.77.8.781     Document Type: Article

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