The efficacy of using synthetic vision terrain-textured images to improve pilot situation awareness

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Uenking, Michael D ^a   Hughes, Monica F ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; CIVIL AVIATION; COCKPITS (AIRCRAFT); FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; LANDFORMS; NASA; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURVEYS; VISIBILITY;

AVIATION SAFETY PROGRAM; CONTROLLED FLIGHT-INTO TERRAINS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER; PRIMARY FLIGHT DISPLAYS; SYNTHETIC VISION DISPLAY; SYNTHETIC VISION SYSTEMS PROJECTS; TERRAIN PORTRAYAL CONCEPTS;

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EID: 85072454534     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2002-01-2970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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