A Small Autonomous Aircraft for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere. Phase 1.

Abstract

In 1992, The Insitu Group began development of a very small, very long-range autonomous aircraft (or aerosonde) for economical meteorological reconnaissance in remote and oceanic regions of the globe. Prototype work was done over the first two years of the program, and in the last half of 1994 the focus moved to development of an aircraft suitable for field trials. All of the necessary components were produced during the Phase I period, including airframe, avionics, powerplant, ground equipment, and software. We are now proceeding toward integrated flight tests, and initial deployment in a meteorological field experiment late in 1995.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 30, 1995
Accession Number
ADA295418

Entities

People

  • Tad Mcgeer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Avionics
  • Communications Protocols
  • Consoles
  • Control Systems
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Stations
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Radio Equipment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Software Engineering