Collection of environmental data from an airship platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4571, Issue , 2001, Pages 76-83

  Kantor, George ^a   Wettergreen, David ^a   Ostrowski, James P ^b   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

AUTONOMOUS AIRSHIPS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 0035767983     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444171     Document Type: Article

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