The paper describes the aircraft to satellite data relay (ASDAR) project which processes information collected by the navigation and data systems of widebody jet aircraft which cross data-sparse areas of the tropics and southern hemisphere. The ASDAR system consists of a data acquisition and control unit to acquire, store, and format latitude, longitude, altitude, wind speed, wind direction, and outside air temperature data; a transmitter to relay the formatted data via satellite to the ground; and a clock to time the data sampling and transmission periods.
An airborne meteorological data collection system using satellite relay /ASDAR/
Instrument Society of America, International Telemetering Conference ; 1978 ; Los Angeles, CA
1978-11-01
Conference paper
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English