An Erickson Air-Crane, Inc. helicopter climbs away on an Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology LIDAR test flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The chopper flew over a varied obstacle course designed to test the sensor's ability to distinguish various obstacles.
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An Erickson Air-Crane, Inc. helicopter climbs away on an Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology LIDAR test flight from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. The chopper flew over a varied obstacle course designed to test the sensor’s ability to distinguish various obstacles. The sensors and related terrain recognition and lidar control equipment are being developed by NASA’s Langley Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help assure safe landings of future manned and robotic spacecraft on extraterrestrial bodies.July 26, 2010
NASA Photo / Tony Landis