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Georegistration of imagery from unmanned aircraft systems using Ada

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As Unmanned Aircraft Systems are used for an increasing number of applications, the challenge of precisely locating the geospatial position of imagery coming from the UAS is becoming more crucial. Through work that has been done in conjunction with the US Air Force Academy, Ada has been used to calculate the position and size of UAS imagery based on field-of-view calculations and elevation data. This paper describes the work that has been done this past year to georegister UAS imagery and how Ada has been used previously for this challenging task.

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Field of View (FOV) calculations. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_view
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    cover image ACM Conferences
    SIGAda '09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGAda annual international conference on Ada and related technologies
    November 2009
    142 pages
    ISBN:9781605584751
    DOI:10.1145/1647420
    • cover image ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
      ACM SIGAda Ada Letters  Volume 29, Issue 3
      SIGAda '09
      December 2009
      113 pages
      ISSN:1094-3641
      DOI:10.1145/1653616
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    1. georegistration
    2. multi-language development
    3. unmanned aircraft system

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