Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990
This report provides an outline of the test site environmental characterization support completed at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test conducted during September 1990. Personnel from two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers laboratories, the U.S....
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ftdtic:ADA266376 2023-05-15T15:55:49+02:00 Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 Curtis, John O. Clark, Flynn A. Perron, Jr., Frank E. Fiori, John E. Harrington, Bryan G. ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS ENVIRONMENTAL LAB 1993-05 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA266376 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA266376 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA266376 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. DTIC AND NTIS Guided Munitions *ANTIARMOR AMMUNITION *WEAPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS *GUIDED PROJECTILES SCANNING TEST AND EVALUATION FREQUENCY STATIONS DYNAMICS BOUNDARY LAYER MILLIMETER WAVES TERRAIN SIGNATURES BACKGROUND METEOROLOGY PLATFORMS ENGINEERING FREQUENCY BANDS SURFACES TOWERS REGIONS MICROMETERS CAPTIVE FLIGHT WATERWAYS EXCHANGE STATICS DESERTS VEGETATION ARMY RADIOMETERS PERSONNEL NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LABORATORIES ENGINEERS ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RADAR COLD REGIONS SITES ARMOR FLIGHT TESTING RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS Text 1993 ftdtic 2016-02-22T01:24:56Z This report provides an outline of the test site environmental characterization support completed at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test conducted during September 1990. Personnel from two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers laboratories, the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, collected data during a 2-week period to both qualitatively and quantitatively define the ambient desert terrain and meteorological conditions that provide the background signatures for the SADARM system. Information collected included that necessary to assess the boundary layer radiation exchange process, the characteristics of the ground surface, and the characteristics of the vegetation present in this and environment. A fixed tower was erected adjacent to a representative patch of desert terrain to provide a platform from which both static and dynamic processes could be observed. Sensors used to view the representative environmental plot included thermal imaging systems that operated in both the 3- to 5-micrometers and 8- to 12-micrometers wavelength bands, an active millimeter wave system that swept a frequency band of 33.0 to 33.5 GHz, and two scanning radiometers operated by the Naval Research Laboratory. Desert terrain, Meteorology, Environmental characterization, Radar Text Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database |
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Guided Munitions *ANTIARMOR AMMUNITION *WEAPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS *GUIDED PROJECTILES SCANNING TEST AND EVALUATION FREQUENCY STATIONS DYNAMICS BOUNDARY LAYER MILLIMETER WAVES TERRAIN SIGNATURES BACKGROUND METEOROLOGY PLATFORMS ENGINEERING FREQUENCY BANDS SURFACES TOWERS REGIONS MICROMETERS CAPTIVE FLIGHT WATERWAYS EXCHANGE STATICS DESERTS VEGETATION ARMY RADIOMETERS PERSONNEL NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LABORATORIES ENGINEERS ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RADAR COLD REGIONS SITES ARMOR FLIGHT TESTING RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS |
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Guided Munitions *ANTIARMOR AMMUNITION *WEAPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS *GUIDED PROJECTILES SCANNING TEST AND EVALUATION FREQUENCY STATIONS DYNAMICS BOUNDARY LAYER MILLIMETER WAVES TERRAIN SIGNATURES BACKGROUND METEOROLOGY PLATFORMS ENGINEERING FREQUENCY BANDS SURFACES TOWERS REGIONS MICROMETERS CAPTIVE FLIGHT WATERWAYS EXCHANGE STATICS DESERTS VEGETATION ARMY RADIOMETERS PERSONNEL NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LABORATORIES ENGINEERS ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RADAR COLD REGIONS SITES ARMOR FLIGHT TESTING RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS Curtis, John O. Clark, Flynn A. Perron, Jr., Frank E. Fiori, John E. Harrington, Bryan G. Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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Guided Munitions *ANTIARMOR AMMUNITION *WEAPON SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS *GUIDED PROJECTILES SCANNING TEST AND EVALUATION FREQUENCY STATIONS DYNAMICS BOUNDARY LAYER MILLIMETER WAVES TERRAIN SIGNATURES BACKGROUND METEOROLOGY PLATFORMS ENGINEERING FREQUENCY BANDS SURFACES TOWERS REGIONS MICROMETERS CAPTIVE FLIGHT WATERWAYS EXCHANGE STATICS DESERTS VEGETATION ARMY RADIOMETERS PERSONNEL NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LABORATORIES ENGINEERS ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RADAR COLD REGIONS SITES ARMOR FLIGHT TESTING RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS |
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This report provides an outline of the test site environmental characterization support completed at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test conducted during September 1990. Personnel from two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers laboratories, the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, collected data during a 2-week period to both qualitatively and quantitatively define the ambient desert terrain and meteorological conditions that provide the background signatures for the SADARM system. Information collected included that necessary to assess the boundary layer radiation exchange process, the characteristics of the ground surface, and the characteristics of the vegetation present in this and environment. A fixed tower was erected adjacent to a representative patch of desert terrain to provide a platform from which both static and dynamic processes could be observed. Sensors used to view the representative environmental plot included thermal imaging systems that operated in both the 3- to 5-micrometers and 8- to 12-micrometers wavelength bands, an active millimeter wave system that swept a frequency band of 33.0 to 33.5 GHz, and two scanning radiometers operated by the Naval Research Laboratory. Desert terrain, Meteorology, Environmental characterization, Radar |
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Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990 |
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environmental characterization for the sense and destroy armor (sadarm) captive flight test, u.s. army yuma proving ground, arizona, september 1990 |
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1993 |
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http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA266376 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA266376 |
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory |
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory |
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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