Progress towards the remote sensing of aircraft icing hazards

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7088, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Reehorst, Andrew ^a   Brinker, David ^a   Politovich, Mareia ^b   Serke, David ^b   Ryerson, Charles ^c   Pazmany, Andrew ^d   Solheim, Fredrick ^e  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^d ProSensing Inc   (United States)

^e Radiometrics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne; Aircraft hazards; Aircraft icing; Cloud physics; Ground based; Radar; Radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURES; AIRBORNE; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; AIRBORNE SYSTEMS; AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS; AIRCRAFT HAZARDS; AIRCRAFT ICING; AIRPORT TERMINALS; ANGLE CONSTRAINTS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLOUD PHYSICS; DECISION SUPPORTS; FLIGHT PATHS; GROUND-BASED; GROUND-BASED SYSTEMS; HAZARD DETECTION; ICE ACCRETIONS; IN-FLIGHT ICING; LIQUID WATER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MULTI-FREQUENCY; REMOTE DETECTION; REMOTE-SENSING APPLICATIONS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUID WATER; TERMINAL REGIONS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERICS; AVIATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; ION BEAMS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; PORT TERMINALS; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOLUTIONS; SPACE OPTICS; SUPERCOOLING;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 52349094731     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.95154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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