Polarimetric Enhancements to Electro-Optical Aided Navigation Techniques by Jeremiah Johnson

Polarimetric Enhancements to Electro-Optical Aided Navigation Techniques by Jeremiah Johnson

Navigation in indoor and urban environments by small unmanned systems is a topic of interest for the Air Force. The Advanced Navigation Technology Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology is continually looking for novel approaches to navigation in GPS deprived environments. Inertial sensors have been coupled with image aided concepts, such as feature tracking, with good results. However, feature density in areas with large, flat, smooth surfaces tends to be low. Polarimetric sensors have been used for surface reconstruction, surface characterization and outdoor navigation. This thesis combines aspects of some of these algorithms along with a realistic, micro-facet polarimetric model and a Kalman filter approach to determine surface structure and platform orientation in an indoor environment. A series of graphical user interfaces were developed to estimate surface material parameters. A more complex simulation software package was used to estimate camera attitude. A physical polarimeter was also designed and built to test the algorithms in a realistic environment. An improvement in attitude estimation of up to 50% was demonstrated.

Jeremiah Johnson planted and is the overseer of Heart of the Father Ministry in Lakeland, Florida. A gifted teacher, prophet, and author of multiple books, Jeremiah travels extensively throughout the United States and abroad as a conference and guest speaker. He has been a guest on Christian television and radio shows including The Jim Bakker Show, Sid Roth's It's Supernatural!, and The Line of Fire with Dr. Michael Brown, as well as on networks such as Daystar, TBN, and God TV. Jeremiah is also the founder and director of Maranatha School of Ministry. MSM is a full-time, five-fold ministry training center that equips and sends out end-time messengers. For more information, please visit jeremiahjohnson.tv or www.maranatha.school. Jeremiah and his wife, Morgan, reside in Florida with their four children.

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ISBN 13	9781288319855
ISBN 10	1288319851
Title	Polarimetric Enhancements to Electro-Optical Aided Navigation Techniques
Author	Jeremiah Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Biblioscholar
Year published	2012-11-19
Number of pages	164
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