| definition
| - AEROSONDE:
Small robotic aircraft for long-range environmental monitoring
and surveillance. It has been developed especially for
meteorological and environmental reconnaissance over oceanic and
remote areas and in harsh conditions, for which its economy and
flexibility will allow routine operations on a much wider scale
than has been possible in the past. It has been extended to
surveillance and other reconnaissance applications.
The Aerosonde is being deployed to fill chronic gaps in the
global upper-air sounding network, to conduct systematic
surveillance of tropical cyclones and other severe weather, to
undertake offshore surveillance and agricultural/biological
surveys, and to obtain specialist observations, such as volcanic
plumes.
Miniaturisation and flexibility, fully robotic operation and
remote command are the key factors in the Aerosonde success. We
have proven that an aircraft weighing less than 15 kg can
undertake completely autonomous missions of several thousand
kilometres and several days duration.
Technical Specifications:
Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft Mark 3
Specifications
Weight, wing span:
13-14 kg, 2.9 m
Engine:
24 cc, Premium Unleaded Petrol, 1kw, fuel injected
Navigation:
GPS, DGPS, automatic storm/front tracking
Operation
Staff for Launch and Recovery 2-3:
Controller, Engineer, Pilot/Maintenance
Staff for Flight Operations:
1 Person for up to 3 aircraft
Ground Equipment:
Proprietary Staging Box, Personal Computer, GPS Antenna
Flight:
Fully autonomous, under Base Command
Launch and Recovery:
Launch from car roof rack (catapult
option), land on belly, Autonomous or with pilot
Ground & air communications:
UHF or SatComms to Aerosonde,
VHF to field staff and other aircraft , internet to command
centre and customers.
Performance
Speed, Climb:
18 ? >32 ms-1, Climb >2.5 ms-1
Range, Endurance:
>3000 km , >30Hrs
Altitude Range:
100 m ? >6000 m (intermediate weight)
Payload:
Maximum 2 kg with full fuel load
Standard Instrumentation
Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, Wind 3
More info at "http://www.aerosonde.com/index.php"
[Information provided by AEROSONDE]
Group: Platform_Details
Entry_ID: AEROSONDE
Group: Platform_Identification
Platform_Category: Aircraft
Short_Name: AEROSONDE
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Creation_Date: 2007-08-21
Online_Resource: http://www.aerosonde.com/
Sample_Image: http://www.aerosonde.com/images/featurepics/snow.jpg
Group: Platform_Logistics
Launch_Date: 1998-08-21
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