| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883683 |
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| Author | Search for: Schmerwitz, S.; Search for: Doehler, H.-U.; Search for: Ellis, K.1; Search for: Jennings, S.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics V; and Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2011, April 25-26, 2011, Orlando, FL, USA |
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| Subject | brownout; degraded vision; enhanced vision; flight test; millimeter wave radar; sensor fusion; terrain mapping; avionics; display devices; dust; helicopter services; landing; mapping; millimeter waves; obstacle detectors; radar; sensors; landforms |
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| Abstract | The DLR project ALLFlight (Assisted Low Level Flight and Landing on Unprepared Landing Sites) is devoted to demonstrating and evaluating the characteristics of sensors for helicopter operations in degraded visual environments. Millimeter wave radar is one of the many sensors considered for use in brown-out. It delivers a lower angular resolution compared to other sensors, however it may provide the best dust penetration capabilities. In cooperation with the NRC, flight tests on a Bell 205 were conducted to gather sensor data from a 35 GHz pencil beam radar for terrain mapping, obstacle detection and dust penetration. In this paper preliminary results from the flight trials at NRC are presented and a description of the radars general capability is shown. Furthermore, insight is provided into the concept of multi-sensor fusion as attempted in the ALLFlight project. © 2011 SPIE. |
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| Publication date | 2011 |
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| Publisher | SPIE |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 21271636 |
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| Record identifier | 088f6221-44c0-4076-bece-cfda3cf1b662 |
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| Record created | 2014-03-24 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-21 |
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