Geo-registration and geo-location of data collected by video sensors such as electro-optical and infrared cameras are two fundamental steps in the airborne surveillance of ground targets. With the availability of high-resolution imaging sensors and detailed mapping or terrain data sources, video data plays an increasingly important role in modern surveillance platforms like unmanned aerial vehicles and airborne, ground, or maritime surveillance systems. Surveillance systems without any compensation for the inevitable sensor registration errors, i.e., biases, may make geo-location erroneous and render the surveillance platform less effective for precision targeting. This article deals with the modeling of sensor biases in geo-location and proposes a method to estimate them. The proposed method leads to a minimization problem with a nonlinear cost function. Detailed derivation of the bias model is given along with an algorithm to find the bias parameters. The achievable lower bounds for debiased geo-location are provided and simulations are used to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.


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    Title :

    Geo-registration and Geo-location Using Two Airborne Video Sensors




    Publication date :

    2020-08-01


    Size :

    2039896 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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