Covert Micro Weather Station for Littoral Areas
Abstract
The Micro Weather Station is intended to be a highly miniaturized unattended, air-deployable and expendable package tor the clandestine collection of meteorological and other environmental data in littoral land areas. (It is anticipated that the basic MWS design may be modified for marine use at a later date.) The operational version of the MWS will contain a suite of microsensors, a GPS receiver, a satellite communications transmitter, a digital processor with interface electronics, and a self contained power supply with solar cells. It will be packaged to be as small and inconspicuous as possible, ruggedized to permit deployment by ejection from aircraft, and designed for low cost, large-scale production. It should have an operational lifetime of several months with data sampling and transmission performed once per half-hour.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA336366