Feasibility of using synthetic aperture radar to aid UAV navigation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 18334-18359

  Nitti, Davide O ^a   Bovenga, Fabio ^b   Chiaradia, Maria T ^c   Greco, Mario ^d   Pinelli, Gianpaolo ^d  

^a Geophysical Applications Processing srl   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^d IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATR; Feasibility; Geo referencing; Interferometry; Navigation; SAR; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ATR; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FEASIBILITY; FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS; GEOREFERENCING; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS (INS); MEDIUM ALTITUDE LONG ENDURANCES; SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84938267144     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150818334     Document Type: Article

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