Experimental Results for Over-the-Horizon Planetary Exploration Using a LIDAR Sensor

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 54, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-77

  Rekleitis, Ioannis ^a   Bedwani, Jean Luc ^b   Gingras, David ^b   Dupuis, Erick ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MINIMAL INTERACTIONS; OVER THE HORIZONS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; TERRAIN MODELLING; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84883010083     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00196-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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