From Wired's Danger Room: "One big difference between Army and Air Force drones is that the Air Force’s robo-lanes can’t land themselves. That’s contributed to a number of Air Force Predators crashing when humans run into problems.
But there may be a way of providing autolanding capability without the weight and expense of conventional systems. Computer vision company 2d3 is developing a new system to allow drones to see their way to a safe landing, using their own cameras rather than radio beacons or radar." Read the rest here.
Synthetic vision is truly cool! I am thinking of a 3D radar scan (range, azimuth, and elevation) represented as a dynamic 3D wire mesh image. Conventional radar imaging systems do not provide all three coordinate dimensions (there is no elevation angle measurement) but this can be simulated by altimeter/gps readings.
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