The paper discusses recent results of flight tests performed with the Airbus Defence and Space ladar system at Yuma Proving Grounds. The ladar under test was the SferiSense® system which is in operational use as an in-flight obstacle warning and avoidance system on the NH90 transport helicopter. Just minor modifications were done on the sensor firmware to optimize its performance in brownout. Also a new filtering algorithm fitted to segment dust artefacts out of the collected 3D data in real-time was employed. The results proved that this ladar sensor is capable to detect obstacles through brownout dust clouds with a depth extending up to 300 meters from the landing helicopter.
Flight test results of ladar brownout look-through capability
Degraded Visual Environments: Enhanced, Synthetic, and External Vision Solutions 2015 ; 2015 ; Baltimore,Maryland,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 9471
11.06.2015
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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