Fiscal Year	2017
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Wang, Qing
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	The proposed project addresses a current data acquisition gap in near-surface marine atmospheric boundary layer measurements needed to validate/improve models for the prediction of electromagnetic wave propagation, a subject area critical to the Navy for targeting, communications, and fleet protection. The project will be directed toward the development of small Unmanned Arial System (sUAS) platforms for sea-based meteorological sensing. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the value of a low-cost UAS platform and its associated instrumentation that can be used to address pressing data collection needs to quantify the atmospheric effects on electromagnetic wave (EM) propagation, a subject area of importance to the Navy's Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW) strategy. In addition to operational use of the sUAS system, a separate payload for research application will also be explored under this project. The program will heavily leverage COTS hobby equipment, open-source electronics and software, and developments of past CRUSER and NPS projects. Unique to the current state-of-the-art in UAS meteorological sampling will be autonomous low-level sensing close to the ocean surface, water surface recovery, turbulence sampling capability, and coordinated synchronized vertical profile sensing using a swarm as a future capability.
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