1. General Information
2. Naming Conventions
3. Contact Information
The Aerosonde is a small robotic aircraft for long-range environmental monitoring and surveillance. It was developed especially for meteorological and environmental reconnaissance over oceanic and remote areas and in harsh conditions. Its economy and flexibility allows 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 was deployed during CAMEX 4 to provide data gathering in the boundary layer below the levels where traditional hurricane reconnasissance aircraft fly. Data was collected along the flight path which includes time (UTC), latitude, longitude and altitude, u and v components of the wind including an error bar, temperature, humidity and barometric pressure.
Additional documentation for the aerosonde aircraft, the missions and data collected may be found at the CAMEX-4 Aerosonde Operations Report. These reports also contain detailed information in the data section which describes the instrumentation, data transmission and storage.
Data files created for aerosonde flights are stored as Microsoft Excel files. A typical file name is:
c4aaero_2001.251_53.xls
where c4aaero is the dataset identifier, 2001.251 is the year.day-of-year and 53 is the aerosonde vehicle number.
Data can be ordered and questions addressed at http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/.
To order this data or for further information, please contact: Global Hydrology Resource Center
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