A fisheye camera system for polarisation detection on UAVs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7584 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 431-440

  Stürzl, Wolfgang ^a,b   Carey, Nicole ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; BIOMIMETICS; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; POLARIZATION;

CAMERA SYSTEMS; COMPACT SIZE; FISH-EYE CAMERAS; FISH-EYE LENS; LIGHT WEIGHT; POLARISERS; POLARIZATION DETECTION; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; POLARIZATION SENSORS; SUN POSITION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84867723770     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33868-7_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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