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Erratum to: Lighthill’s Theory of Aerodynamic Noise
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US Domestic Communications Satellite Systems
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Book and Reference Work
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Ground Systems for Satellite Application Systems for Navigation, Remote Sensing, and Meteorology
The technology, the applications, and the economic forces that have driven the design, functionality, and performance of ground systems for satellite communications have been very closely mirrored in the other...
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Introduction to Space Systems for Meteorology
The world’s meteorological satellite systems are today vital to every nation in the world not only for reliable weather forecasts, but also for key storm warnings and potential disaster alerts in the case of h...
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AIM: An Introduction to the Project
The European Specific Targeted Research Project (STReP) AIM—Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques was launched on the \(1\mathrm{st }\) ...
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Major Launch Systems Available Globally
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Propeller Deformation Study on an P 180 Push Propeller Aircraft
Within AIM one of the most challenging tasks was to measure the propeller blade deformation with QVT (Quantitative Video Technique) and IPCT (Image Pattern Correlation Technique) in flight. Beside this measure...
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Assessment of Propeller Deformation Measurement Techniques for Industrial Application
After the performance of the IPCT flight tests on the Piaggio P 180, the aircraft manufacturer Evektor performed an assessment of the image based measurement techniques for propeller deformation measurements. ...
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\(1.5\,\upmu \mathrm{{m}}\) LIDAR for Helicopter Blade Tip Vortex Detection
The objective of the ONERA study in the AIM project “Advanced In-flight Measurement Techniques” is to assess the capability of on board LIDAR technique to investigate in-flight tip vortices behaviour. This pap...
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Applications of Infrared Technology to Helicopter Flight Testing
This chapter deals with some applications of the infrared technology for industrial flight tests of helicopters. The main application concerns the measurement of structural temperature. Flight tests are perfor...
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Lighthill’s Theory of Aerodynamic Noise
In 1952, Lighthill [61] gave the first formulation of aerodynamic sound, which is based on an analogy of sound radiated by fluctuating monopole, dipole, or quadrupole sound sources. Lighthill’s treatment of th...
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Sensors and Actuators for Laminar Flow Flight Experiments
The present chapter is focussed on different measurement techniques for in-flight experiments. Laminar flow investigation for low and high flight velocities were performed. Several types of surface sensors wer...
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Introduction and History of Space Remote Sensing
This chapter introduces the subject of remote sensing both in terms of its technology and its many applications. Remote sensing via satellite has become a key service that is used in many civil applications su...
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Subsonic Jet Noise (Including Effect of Convection)
In Chap. 4, the equations for the intensity of sound and acoustic power were developed as if, due to fluctuations in the flow properties, there were a fluctuation in the quadrupole strength producing noise, bu...
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Investigation of Background Pattern for the Outdoor Application of the BOS Method
The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of such environmental parameters as natural backgrounds, angle of inclination between the background and the registration plane and presence of turbulence ...
