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WIRELESS LAN FOR OPERATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING PAYLOAD ON A HIGH ALTITUDE SOLAR-POWERED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 20-23, 2003 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Two separate imaging payloads were successfully operated using a wireless line-of-sight
telemetry system that was developed as part of a recently completed UAV (unmanned aerial
vehicle) imaging campaign over the largest coffee plantation in the USA. The objective was to
demonstrate the performance of “off-the-shelf” wireless technology in an effort to reduce the
cost of line-of-sight telemetry for imaging payloads on UAVs. Pre-deployment tests using a
conventional twin-engine piloted aircraft at a flight height of 10k ft demonstrated successful
broadband connectivity between a rapidly moving (ca. 280 km hr^(-1)) airborne WLAN (wireless
local area network) and a fixed ground station WLAN. This paper details the performance of the
wireless telemetry system on a slow-flying (<50 km hr^(-1)) solar-powered UAV at a flight height
of 6.4 km.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/605364
Date10 1900
CreatorsHerwitz, Stanley R., Leung, Joseph G., Aoyagi, Michio, Billings, Donald B., Wei, Mei Y., Dunagan, Stephen E., Higgins, Robert G., Sullivan, Donald V., Slye, Robert E.
ContributorsClark University, NASA
PublisherInternational Foundation for Telemetering
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Proceedings
RightsCopyright © International Foundation for Telemetering
Relationhttp://www.telemetry.org/

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