Preliminary Ecological Evaluation of the Effects of Air Cushion Vehicle Tests on the Arctic Tundra of Northern Alaska

Abstract

Of prime concern in the Arctic is the need for an efficient means of transportation over both frozen and unfrozen arctic terrain. As part of the effort to develop such a means, the Advanced Research Projects Agency established a program to determine the potential for using an air cushion vehicle (ACV). Studies on the effects of ACV tests were conducted in two areas at Barrow, Alaska. One area was a drained lake bottom with a fairly homogeneous vegetation cover and soil type. The second area, much drier than the first, consisted of low-centered polygons composed of a wet tundra soil and a varying vegetation complex. The initial effects of the ACV tests in both in both areas were quite similar. darpa

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0751741

Entities

People

  • Warren Rickard

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Cushion Vehicles
  • Aircrafts
  • Birds
  • Cold Regions
  • Earth Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Eutrophication
  • Ground Effect
  • Ground Effect Machines
  • Habitats
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Organic Materials
  • Solar Radiation
  • Transportation

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.