Hurricane navigation with a small UAV: Practical experience and future strategies

AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America Conference 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 55-61

  Becker, Jon ^a   Cione, Joseph ^b   Lin, Po Hsiung ^c   Holland, Greg ^d  

^a Cloud Cap Technology   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; NASA; NAVIGATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STORMS;

ENGINE RELIABILITY; NAVIGATION SOFTWARE; POSSIBLE FUTURES; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SEMIAUTONOMOUS NAVIGATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84897474476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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