CATOPS: A Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System for unmanned aircraft

S. Marri Sridhar; C. C. Collins; G. D. Chandler; M. T. Smith; J. E. Lumpp

CATOPS: A Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System for unmanned aircraft

S. Marri Sridhar, C. C. Collins, G. D. Chandler, M. T. Smith, J. E. Lumpp

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This paper describes the CATOPS - Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System developed by the University of Kentucky. CATOPS is a high-speed image processing system that produces a composite aerial image of the terrain below the flight path of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from a set of individual photographs taken from the UAV. The final composite image is geo-referenced and displayed on an interactive user interface that allows the user to zoom, pan, tile and flip through images. The powerful yet easy user interface makes CATOPS applicable to a wide variety of surveillance and mapping applications. An early version of CATOPS was used successfully by the UK Aerial Robotics team at the 2006 AUVSI student UAV competition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
Pages	2550-2563
Number of pages	14
State	Published - 2007
Event	2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference - Rohnert Park, CA, United States Duration: May 7 2007 → May 10 2007

Publication series

Name	Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
Volume	3

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Conference	2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Rohnert Park, CA
Period	5/7/07 → 5/10/07

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Aerospace Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Sridhar, SM, Collins, CC, Chandler, GD, Smith, MT & Lumpp, JE 2007, CATOPS: A Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System for unmanned aircraft. in Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference. Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference, vol. 3, pp. 2550-2563, 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference, Rohnert Park, CA, United States, 5/7/07.

CATOPS: A Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System for unmanned aircraft. / Sridhar, S. Marri; Collins, C. C.; Chandler, G. D. et al.
Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference. 2007. p. 2550-2563 (Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference; Vol. 3).

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