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Data Supporting Mobile Wind Measurements Using a Joust Configured Ultrasonic Anemometer Onboard a Multi-rotor sUAS

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2022-08-09
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2022-08-11

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Manies, K., Hollenbeck, D., Edgar, C., and Euskirchen, E., 2024, Data Supporting Mobile Wind Measurements Using a Joust Configured Ultrasonic Anemometer Onboard a Multi-rotor sUAS: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P142EBC3.

Summary

These data were collected to investigate how well wind speed and direction can be measured using a miniature sonic anemometer mounted in a joust configuration on a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS). Test flights occurred at a bog within Interior Alaska that was instrumented with an eddy covariance flux tower. Part of the tower's instrumentation was a highly accurate sonic anemometer which was used represented the real, or target, wind speed and direction. Because the sUAS and tower instruments are not co-located (as the sUAS is constantly moving) a concurrent experiment examined the amount of error due to this separation.

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Tower_AirMar_data_dictionary.csv 549 Bytes text/csv
Tower_Airmar_SciBase.csv 8.94 MB text/csv
TriSonica_AirMar_Tower_sUAS_data.zip 957.62 KB application/zip
TriSonica_AirMar_Tower_sUAS_data_dictionary.csv 1.46 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data presented in this release are from the three different wind measurement instruments. The first set of data are from all three instruments but only for the time periods for which the small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) as flying. The second set of data are from the two sets of instruments (tower and AirMar) that were at times co-located and at other times separated by about 22 m.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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  • USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC)

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P142EBC3

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