An Automatic Computer-Aided Detection System for Aircraft Emergency Landing
Yufei Shen, Zia-ur Rahman · Infotech@Aerospace 2011 · 2011
An automatic computer-aided detection (CAD) system is proposed to assist aircraft pilots to find safe emergency landing sites where no runway is available. Conventionally, pilots are trained to identify safe landing sites by looking to the ground with raw eyes. But human vision can be significantly affected by weather conditions. Also the crucial decision greatly depends on the pilot’s flight experience. In addition, the pilot will be under the huge pressure in such extremely urgent situations. Time is another vital factor of the survival of passengers and the pilot himself. Therefore, a robust, reliable and efficient algorithm of selecting candidate landing sites is strongly desired. By applying image processing and analysis techniques we proposed an automatic CAD system and preliminary results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.