Stereo vision and rover navigation software for planetary exploration

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 2025-2036

  Goldberg, Steven B ^a   Maimone, Mark W ^b   Matthies, Lany ^b  

^a Indelible Systems Inc   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSIONS; MARS SURFACE MISSIONS; NAVIGATION SOFTWARE; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODELS; STEREO VISION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER VISION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NASA; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RADIATION HARDENING;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 84879375888     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2002.1035370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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