Session E11: Complementary or Alternative PNT: Vision

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Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Time: 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Ballroom D

Session Chairs:
Dr. Kevin Brink
AFRL
Dr. Jared Judy
NIWC Atlantic

1:50 p.m. Distant Shoreline Vision Navigation for Aircraft using a Gimbaled LWIR Camera: Rory Alston, Eric Farmer, Clayton Graves, Jonathan Ryan and Kevin Betts, Leidos, Inc.
2:10 p.m. Pathfinder: Field-Proven GPS-Independent Navigation Software for Global UAV and Aircraft Operations: Kanwar Singh, Sachin Shah, Stephan Koehler, Skyline Nav AI; Michael Switzer, Simon Khan, Chase Eskridge, US Air Force; Michael Hlavaty, Bhumit Patel, Kearfott
2:30 p.m. Street Level Image Matching (SLIM) for Mounted Vision Navigation: Christopher Walter and Zachary Kjellberg, U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center; Steven Gambino, Adrian Mai, Kyung Su, Christopher Rose, and Kevin Betts, Leidos
2:50 p.m. Honeywell Vision-Based Wide Area Search for Aircraft Relocalization: Design and Demonstration: Zachary Fisher, Angel Sylvester, Jay Rothenberger, Tyler Lekang, Nikolas Pardoe, Nathan Raab, Honeywell Aerospace
Alternates
1. Learned Feature Representations for Image Navigation: Fred Buchanan, Zvonimir Stojanovski, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
2. Honeywell Marker Based Landing (MBL): Means of Certification for Artificial Intelligence Systems in Aviation: Mohammed Shafeeq Embram Thody, Rodney Dockter, Ben Johnson, Honeywell Aerospace

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break in Exhibit Hall (First Floor), Sponsored by Inside GNSS

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