A Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System for Key Climate Risk Areas

A Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System is proposed to leverage recent advancements in key enabling technologies for solar electric flight (batteries and solar cells) and enabling technologies for Earth observation (lidar, radar, laser systems, etc.). Advantages of this observation syste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dewald, Annick
Other Authors: Hansman, R. John
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140037