An airborne meteorological data collection system using satellite relay /ASDAR/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.
Document ID
19790030936
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bagwell, J. W. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Lindow, B. G. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1978
Subject Category
Aircraft Communications And Navigation
Meeting Information
Meeting: Instrument Society of America, International Telemetering Conference