Environmental Characterization for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) CaptiveFlight Test, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, September 1990

摘要

This report provides an outline of the test site environmental characterizationsupport completed at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground for the Sense and Destroy Armor (SADARM) Captive Flight Test conducted during September 1990. Personnel from two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers laboratories, the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, collected data during a 2-week period to both qualitatively and quantitatively define the ambient desert terrain and meteorological conditions that provide the background signatures for the SADARM system. Information collected included that necessary to assess the boundary layer radiation exchange process, the characteristics of the ground surface, and the characteristics of the vegetation present in this and environment. A fixed tower was erected adjacent to a representative patch of desert terrain to provide a platform from which both static and dynamic processes could be observed. Sensors used to view the representative environmental plot included thermal imaging systems that