A Sea Ice Terrain and Mobility Model

With the advent of a new generation of air cushion vehicles, often called surface effects vehicles (SEV), the nature of the Arctic pack ice as a vehicle terrain has taken on military and commercial significance. Because of this significance, studies have recently been carried out at USA CRREL in ord...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hibler,William D. , III
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1974
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Surface Effect Vehicles & Amphibious Vehicles
*Surface effect vehicles
*Sea ice
*Trafficability
Pack ice
Mobility
Probability density functions
Monte Carlo method
Pressure ridges
Arctic
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0785631
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0785631
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Summary:With the advent of a new generation of air cushion vehicles, often called surface effects vehicles (SEV), the nature of the Arctic pack ice as a vehicle terrain has taken on military and commercial significance. Because of this significance, studies have recently been carried out at USA CRREL in order to effectively characterize sea ice terrain for purposes of SEV mobility, as well as for other types of vehicles. These studies have involved aerial stereo photography, airborne laser profilometry, and ground measurements performed on the pack ice surface.

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