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Flight Experimental Research of On-Board Multispectral Imaging System for All-Weather Aircraft Landing

Authors: Akopdzhanyan Yu.A., Bilanchuk V.V., Drynkin V.N., Fal’kov E.Ya., Tsareva T.I., Fomenko A.I., Machikhin A.S. Published: 04.10.2014
Published in issue: #5(98)/2014  
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Category: Laser and opto-electronic systems  
Keywords: multispectral imaging system, enhanced vision system, optical properties of underlying surface, flight testing

On-board multispectral imaging system for all-weather aircraft landing is described. Flight tests results on glissade trajectories using light aircraft АС-5 МР at various weather conditions are presented. It is shown that traditional use of visible (0,4...0,8 μm) and thermal infrared (7,5...14,0 μm) spectral channels is not effective at foggy weather; it requires the addition with near-infrared (0,9...1,7 μm) channel.

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