ACES Aircraft and Mechanical Data V1

Description

The ACES Aircraft and Mechanical Data consist of aircraft (e.g. pitch, roll, yaw) and mechanical (e.g. aircraft engine speed, tail commands, fuel levels) data recorded by the Altus II Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Altus II UAV) system during the Altus Cumulus Electrification Study (ACES) based at the Naval Air Facility Key West in Florida. ACES aimed to provide extensive observations of the cloud electrification process and its effects by using the Altus II UAV to collect cloud top observations of thunderstorms. The campaign also worked to validate satellite lightning measurements. The Altus II aircraft and mechanical data files are available from July 10 through August 30, 2002 in MATLAB data format (.mat).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FACES%2FMULTIPLE%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=aces1am
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/aces/aircraft/doc/aces1am_dataset.pdf
21 The Altus Cumulus Electrification Study (ACES): A UAV-based Science Demonstration https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2002-3405
21 ACES Field Campaign Project Homepage https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/aces
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Altus II https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-058-DFRC.html

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  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • earth-science

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