AVIATION
Laser-based Air Data and Navigation Sensors
Improving Safety: Unspoofable and unjammable laser-based navigation.
The next generation alternative to GPS navigation
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Dead reckoning sensor — ground speed and ground track
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Height above ground — replaces radar altimeter for terrain following
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Product: LandSafe® Precision Flight Instrumentation System. Learn more.
Relative Winds
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3-D WIND Vector — Improving Performance, true air data for next generation aircraft
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0 knots through hypersonic, full 360, full flight envelope
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​Measures outside aircraft influence
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Measures true airspeed, true angle of attack, true angle of sideslip
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Turbulence and gusts
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​Fully motion compensated​
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Winds Aloft
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At altitudes above and below the aircraft flight level
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Optimizing cruise altitudes for ground speed and turbulence --> fuel savings
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Precision cargo delivery
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Learn more about Laser Doppler Velocimetry Navigation (LDVNAV )
Enabling Tech for:
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Lowering stall reference speed to shorten take-off and/ or landing distances, increase payload, and decrease engine thrust required (extend engine lifetime)
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Supersonic/hypersonic maneuverability
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Sonic boom control
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Slope detection for landing on unlevel surfaces or moving platforms
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High rate of descent helicopter and VTOL/EVTOL operations in urban environments
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Low airspeed operations
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High angle of attack operations
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Wind shear, wake turbulence, and clear air turbulence mitigation
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Active gust load alleviation
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Helicopter and drone operations in high-wind conditions
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GPS-deprived environments (military and civil)
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Operations in low and no-visibility environments.
Studies in success:
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Life Saver
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Airbus Group Completes Successful Flight Tests of Laser-
Based Airspeed Sensor System
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LandSafe® Precision Flight Instrumentation System, The DVE Solution