Runway texture and grid pattern effects on rate-of-descent perception

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Schroeder, Jeffery A ^a   Dearing, Munro G ^a   Sweet, Barbara T ^a   Kaiser, Mary K ^a   Atencio Jr , Adolph ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

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