@inproceedings{c0769a204d244c77878c749cbfdc1e43,
title = "CATOPS: A Composite Aerial Terrain Orthorectification Photography System for unmanned aircraft",
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.",
author = "Sridhar, \{S. Marri\} and Collins, \{C. C.\} and Chandler, \{G. D.\} and Smith, \{M. T.\} and Lumpp, \{J. E.\}",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference ; Conference date: 07-05-2007 Through 10-05-2007",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "1563478935",
series = "Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference",
pages = "2550--2563",
booktitle = "Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference",
}