In just a few weeks, will make their way to Oliktok Point, Alaska, where they’ll begin the first of two campaigns designed to demonstrate how small, low-cost UAVs can be used to study and measure the atmosphere in this harsh Artic environment.
The use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is becoming increasingly popular for a variety of applications. One way in which these systems can provide revolutionary scientific information is through the routine measurement of atmospheric conditions, particularly properties related to clouds, aerosols, and radiation. Improved understanding of these topics at high latitudes, in particular has become very relevant due to observed decreases in ice and snow in Polar Regions. Ìýis a field campaign recently funded by the United States Department of Energy (US DOE) that will feature the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to obtain atmospheric measurements over the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program’s Oliktok Point facility.
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