An All Digital Automated Wind Measurement System.

Abstract

In addition to supplying basic meteorological information, vectored wind velocity measurements are essential to the analysis of small caliber ballistic trajectories, optical wave propagation in the lower atmosphere, and wind shears and vorticies. Conventional electromechanical methods, using velocity-to-direct current converters, are often unsatisfactory when integrated into a multisensor array over long path lengths. An all digital system capable of operating as an array over long path lengths has been developed. The system is totally automated. By use of complete metal oxidized semiconductors (CMOS) signal processing remote data acquistion stations, operated under microprocessor control, reliable and accurate asynchronous data transfer has been obtained. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA031439

Entities

People

  • F. Taylor
  • P. Joseph
  • P. Mohan
  • T. Pries

Organizations

  • United States Army Communications-Electronics Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Artillery
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Rate
  • Data Transmission
  • Electronics
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Operating Systems
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Security
  • Semiconductors
  • Signal Processing
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems