AUTOMATING SOME MEASUREMENTS DURING
OPERATION S.A.F.E WORKSHOPS
by
Roberto Barbosa, Y Chui
Contact: Roberto Barbosa
Assistant Professor
Biological and Agricultural
Engineering Department
LSU AgCenter
Summary: Operation S.A.F.E. workshops, commonly known as
“fly-ins” are very helpful to agricultural pilots in “fine tuning” their
aircraft. During the fly-in several ancillary measurements are taken such as:
aircraft speed, aircraft spray release height, air temperature and relative
humidity, wind speed and direction. Most of those measurements are taken by
people operating the flight line with the help of some instruments. It is very
common in a fly-in not to have people used to take those measurements, or not
to have enough people to take note of all measurements. Automation of some of
these measurements could improve accuracy and reliability of measurements
during the fly-in. In this paper we describe an attempt to automate some of
those measurements and the results of our testing.
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