Abstract In laser-based space technologies where laser beams are transmitted from a ground station, it is required for the ground station to avoid irradiating aircraft with high energy lasers. A simple, inexpensive acoustic positioning technique using four microphones is developed and its performance is evaluated. It is demonstrated to be sensitive to and effective in detecting aircraft flying at short ranges. Aircraft closer than 5 km can easily be detected and the maximum range is about 10 km. The time series of two-dimensional directional position estimates are harmonic with those of ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast), and the precision reaches 1 degree (standard deviation) in the best case. The processing time for data collection and computation is short enough to establish a realtime feedback mechanism to stop firing laser. With its advantages and disadvantages, effective combinations with existing methods are discussed to avoid injury to the eyes, in which the acoustic approach is found to be useful to enhance safety measures in particular of low-altitude aircraft with a large angular velocity.
Acoustic positioning of closely-flying aircraft for eye safety of space laser applications
Advances in Space Research ; 73 , 1 ; 982-991
2023-09-29
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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