Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet |
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| Caption: The TAOSF aerostat observation platform. The photo on the left shows the aerostat, which is an unmanned, lighter-than-air
(LTA) unpowered blimp on a tether. Helium is used for buoyancy. The gimballed TAOSF observation platform avionics package is
shown on the right. It includes a GPS, a barometric altimeter, a magnetic compass, a serial wireless data link, a wide-angle color
camera, and a video transmitter. |
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