Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology has become a promising means both for military and civilian surveillance issues that UAVs may provide more accurate, inexpensive and durable information than ground surveillance systems. The information can be obtained from various sensors which are equipped on a UAV. Most of the current UAVs depend on satellite based navigation systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS). However, GPS signals are easily jammed especially in military fields which necessitate a Terrain Aided Navigation (TAN) system. TAN systems aim to provide position estimates relative to known terrains. Such systems collect the height values from the surface with the help of active range sensors which are then matched within a terrain Digital Elevation Map (DEM). In this chapter, we have developed a preliminary TAN system as a testbed, in order to emphasize and address the opportunities and challenges of designing an autonomous navigation system. In addition, we have determined and summarized some of the design objectives for UAV based surveillance posts.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Opportunities and Challenges of Terrain Aided Navigation Systems for Aerial Surveillance by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles


    Additional title:

    Augment Vis Real


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Wide Area Surveillance ; Chapter : 6 ; 163-177


    Publication date :

    2012-09-12


    Size :

    15 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Vision-aided terrain referenced navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles using ground features

    Lee, Dongjin / Kim, Youngjoo / Bang, Hyochoong | SAGE Publications | 2014



    Navigation Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Hajiyev, Chingiz / Soken, Halil Ersin / Vural, Sıtkı Yenal | Springer Verlag | 2015



    Sensitivity study of fiducial-aided navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Strate, Amanda J / Christensen, Randall | SAGE Publications | 2022