A Quad, describing CRUSER Seed Research Program funded research.CRUSER Funded ResearchFY22 Funded Research ProposalConsortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER

Ortiz-Suslow, David

Yamaguchi, Ryan

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Calhoun: The NPS Institutional ArchiveDSpace RepositoryCRUSER (Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research)Faculty and Researchers' Publications2022sUAS-based Remote Sensing of SurfaceWaves and Breaking using an EO/IR Camera SystemOrtiz-Suslow, David; Yamaguchi, RyanMonterey, California: Naval Postgraduate Schoolhttp://hdl.handle.net/10945/70862This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, UnitedStates Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in theUnited States.Downloaded from NPS Archive: CalhounSeed Research Program 2022Problem StatementImpact TransitionPI: David Ortiz-SuslowDepartment of Meteorologydortizsu@nps.edu | 831.656.3274sUAS-based Remote Sensing of Surface Waves and Breaking using an EO/IR Camera System• The developed technology and capabilities will transition to augmenting the PI’s on-going, and pending, research studies involving sUAS and atmosphere-ocean characterization for improving propagation environment forecasting.• The deliverables from this project will be transitioned to enhance and enrich Navy-relevant STEM education and outreach programming being developed by the PI as part of a funded partnership between NPS and Stanford University.• Opportunities to leveraging this technology to seek additionalresearch funding and operational applications will be explored.• We are proposing to develop a novel technique for directly measuring surface wave breaking characteristics and statistics from sUAS using electrooptical (EO) and infrared (IR) imaging.• Our approach has three major phases: (1) platform selection and payload design, (2) field test with complimentary validation from standard met/ocean measurements, (3) in-depth algorithm development and validation.• Our approach will augment current environmental sensing capabilities from sUAS for a more integrated and complete measurement from these versatile platforms.• US Navy ships rely on EO/IR systems for navigation, battlespace awareness, and self-defense. These systems’ performance depends critically on the properties of the nearby atmosphere.• EO/IR system performance is significantly degraded by signalattenuation due to scattering from aerosols and spraysgenerated from surface wave breaking.• Enhanced sensing and characterization of this natural process will improve system performance models and prediction.• Success will be measured by validation of the developed sampling and analysis technique using standard metrics.Key Personnel:Ryan YamaguchiIdealization of operational deployment and sampling of an sUASequipped for wave breaking sampling based on proposed effort.Atmospheric loading of aerosols/spraymaintained by breaking wavesDroplet layerAnalysis region

sUAS-based Remote Sensing of Surface Waves and Breaking using an EO/IR Camera System

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sUAS-based Remote Sensing of Surface Waves and Breaking using an EO/IR Camera System

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