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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/605364 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Herwitz, 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. |
| Contributors | Clark University, NASA |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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