Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/Remotely Piloted Aircraft Design Selection Based on Service-Stated Meteorological/Oceanographic Requirements.

Abstract

A decision tool for choosing most efficient unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's)/remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) for Meteorological/ Oceanographic (METOC) data collection is presented. A Microsoft Access database query (written in Structured Query Language) links RPA flight performance parameters to individualized METOC Elements of Measurement, a subset of a larger Joint Service METOC Requirements database table, presented elsewhere in the thesis in full. Successful aircraft performance parameters include vast controllability/ programmability ranges, flexible (including shipboard) launches and recoveries, atmospheric profiling capabilities, hover ability, long endurance and airframes free of propeller or rotor wash. A sampling of existing (or planned) airborne METOC instrumentation, their ranges and accuracies are included, in database form, for further reference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA362157

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Stanton

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Birds
  • Database Management Systems
  • Domain Specific Programming Languages
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Meteorology
  • Naval Operations
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy