The Hydrographic Airborne Laser Sounder (HALS),

Abstract

To provide an increase in hydrographic survey resources the Hydrographic Airborne Laser Sounder is being developed by the Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity (NORDA) under the sponsorship of the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA). The HALS system incorporates a pulsed, scanning blue-green laser and will be flown in a helicopter from a survey ship operated by the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). Through the use of statistics in post-flight processing the HALS data will meet survey accuracy standards, more than adequate for safe navigation. NORDA will perform a technical evaluation of HALS and then turn the system over to NAVOCEANO for operation in late 1983. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 03, 1982
Accession Number
ADA111027

Entities

People

  • Stephen M. Webb

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Depth
  • Digital Data
  • Elements
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Hydrographic Surveying
  • Lasers
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Navigation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surveys
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy