PROBABILISTIC SAFE LANDING AREA DETERMINATION

摘要

According to an aspect of the invention, a method (300) of probabilistic safe landing area determination for an aircraft (100) includes receiving 302) sensor data indicative of current conditions at potential landing areas for the aircraft (100). Feature extraction (306) on the sensor data is performed. A processing subsystem (204) of the aircraft (100) updates a probabilistic safe landing area map (602) based on comparing extracted features of the sensor data with a probabilistic safe landing area model (214). The probabilistic safe landing area model (214) defines probabilities that terrain features are suitable for safe landing of the aircraft (100). A list of ranked landing areas (312) is generated based on the probabilistic safe landing area map (602).