Project OCTAGON: Special UAVs - Autonomous airborne platforms

Abstract

The main objective of this OCTAGON Project is to produce Special Autonomous UAVs to monitor the Low Altitude Electromagnetic Turbulence in the Earth' atmosphere. This kind of UAV will be also used in Special Operations such as the research of the low altitude atmosphere, dangerous atmospheric phenomena, hazard weather behavior, in local disaster aerial surveillance and monitoring, aerial investigations of volcanic activities or over any high contaminated area up to the use in space exploration, such as the exploration of the planet Mars. The Low Altitude Electromagnetic Turbulence in the atmosphere of the Earth was discovered in 1996, and a complete scientific presentation of it was made since then to several international institutions and authorities, including NTSB in US, the Romanian Space Agency and the United Nations, the Office of Outer Space Affairs during the Workshop for the Disaster Management in Europe, at Brasov, Romania in 20th of May 2003. © 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.