A brief study was conducted at the Goddard Space Flight Center to identify existing remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) capabilities and to determine if the use of an RPV was advantageous and practical for Earth science investigations. A total of 17 instrument systems were identified. It was found that RPV's were considered especially valuable for dangerous missions, e.g., flights through volcano plumes and hurricanes, long duration profiles over inaccessible regions such as the Antarctic, and very low altitude ocean profiling missions.
Remotely Piloted Vehicle as an Earth Science Research Aircraft
1991
2 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Meteorological Instruments & Instrument Platforms , Natural Resource Surveys , Geology & Geophysics , Ocean Sciences & Technology , Atmospheric physics , Remotely piloted vehicles , Research aircraft , Antarctic regions , Earth crust , Hurricanes , Low altitude , Oceanography , Oceans , Plumes , Sea ice , Vegetation , Vertical distribution , Volcanoes
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