| Autor: |
Walter Harrington, James Savage, H. N. Burns, Zoltan Szoboszlay, Steven Braddom, R. Andrew McKinley |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Laser Radar Technology and Applications XV. |
| ISSN: |
0277-786X |
| DOI: |
10.1117/12.853625 |
| Popis: |
A joint-service team led by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munitions and Sensors Directorates completed a successful flight test demonstration of the 3D-LZ Helicopter LADAR Imaging System. This was a milestone demonstration in the development of technology solutions for a problem known as “helicopter brownout”, the loss of situational awareness caused by swirling sand during approach and landing. The 3D-LZ LADAR was developed by H.N. Burns Engineering and integrated with the US Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate’s Brown-Out Symbology System aircraft state symbology aboard a US Army EH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The combination of these systems provided an integrated degraded visual environment landing solution with landing zone situational awareness as well as aircraft guidance and obstacle avoidance information. Pilots from the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps achieved a 77% landing rate in full brownout conditions at a test range at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. This paper will focus on the LADAR technology used in 3D-LZ and the results of this milestone demonstration. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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