Stabilized Gimbal for Airborne Water Surface Velocity Measurements in Riverine and Littoral Environments

Abstract

A stabilized gimbal system, comprised of both an electro-optical camera and a focusable cooled mid-wave infrared camera was acquired, and a frame was built to deploy the gimbal on a light aircraft in conjunction with the current DoD/ONR-funded project designated DARLA (data Assimilation and Remote Sensing for Littoral Applications). This created new airborne capabilities to exploit remotely-sensed thermal signatures for littoral application. Specifically, it will be used with existing techniques to survey the spatial variability of mean and turbulent water surface velocities over large areas with high resolution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619234

Entities

People

  • Andrew T. Jessup
  • C. Chris Chickadel

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • High Resolution
  • Infrared Cameras
  • Internal Waves
  • Measurement
  • Particle Image Velocimetry
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surface Temperature
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers