Photos: Computers usher in pilots' vision 2.0

Eye spy

By Nick Heath, 16 January 2009 16:53

The Enhanced Fusion Vision system, shown here, is aimed at helping pilots take off and fly in poor weather conditions such as rain, snow or fog.

The system creates sharp images in real-time from a camera attached to the plane and relays them back to the pilot, cleaning up visual feeds that would otherwise be obscured by the weather.

The system uses digital camera sensors that take visible and infrared images, which are then fused together into a clearer picture using customised image processing algorithms.

Photo credit: HCL

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