#MAV
Elastic factor-graph fusion of inertial, visual, laser, and GNSS observations cuts micro air vehicle trajectory errors under sensor degradation.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/mav-0026-0013
#FactorGraph #SensorFusion #Navigation

HOW FAR DOES IT GO?

Sound is only one layer. Magnetic, radar, fiber optic, and emerging sensors can add pieces to the picture.

But AI can only process what sensors capture. The deep ocean remains difficult to see.

#OceanSurveillance #SensorFusion #MilitaryOceanography #AntiSubmarineWarfare

The open data is not the submarine. It is the sound map.

~4,000 Argo floats measure temperature and salinity.

These metrics map how sound travels, where sonar performs best, and where to look.

Open data. Closed models.

#OceanSensing #SensorFusion #Oceanography #SonarSystems #DataDriven

Six sensors. None is perfect.

Each catches a different trace, each has a different weakness.

The real question is not whether one sensor can find a submarine.

It is whether six weak clues can become one strong case.

#SensorFusion #DistributedSensing #AntiSubmarineWarfare #FutureWarfare

#Lidar that captures color at the silicon level, not fused from a camera afterward, but born colored. Ouster's REV8 might reshape the whole sensor-fusion stack. Wrote about why it's a bigger deal than a spec bump:

cmodi306.medium.com/when-lidar-l...

#Robotics #SensorFusion #AutonomousVehicles