Title :
Airships: an ideal platform for human or remote sensing in the marine environment
Author :
Brandreth, E. Judson, Jr.
Author_Institution :
American Blimp Corp., Severna Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
The author describes what today\´s modern airship, "blimp", can offer to those wishing to have an airborne platform capability. The advantages of airships as remote sensing platforms include payload capacity, platform stability, low noise, long endurance and wide operating altitude range. A description is given of the aircraft available from the American Blimp Corporation
Keywords :
aircraft; balloons; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; American Blimp Corporation; airborne platform; aircraft; airship; apparatus; blimp; equipment; long endurance; low noise; marine environment; measurement technique; ocean; operating altitude; payload capacity; remote sensing; remote sensing platform; stability; Aerodynamics; Helium; Humans; Lakes; Manufacturing; Ocean temperature; Payloads; Remote sensing; Road transportation; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS 2000 MTS/IEEE Conference and Exhibition
Conference_Location :
Providence, RI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6551-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2000.882212
