Small laboratories, research projects, and minor security duties may not have ready access to the number or variety of devices listed here, and might wish to lease their use, particularly using a snap-on, snap-off attachment to an LTA carrier. Availability of these devices could prove the definitive deciding factor in award of a competitive research grant. It makes economic and competitive to rent or lease airship + Remote Sensing Devices hookups --- that is, in essence to sell them over and over again --- rather than to sell them outright. This avoids the difficulty of obtaining business loans in the current business environment, credit problems, non-payment by clients, and theft issues relating to clients just taking the airship and disappearing; it makes economic sense as well. Electronically interconnecting the remote sensing equipment with Global Positioning Systems can substantially increase the usefulness of this data.
APPLICATIONS of Remotely-Operated Airship-Borne Attachments & Devices for a Broad Base of Primarily Non-Military Clients
1. Sporting event video coverage
2. Law enforcement: traffic, aerial views of traffic accidents;
3. Marine mammal population census, migration patterns
4. Design & build surveys for bridge & road planning & construction
5. Marine biology --- spotting red tides in coastal waters; monitoring the health of coral reefs
6. Fire fighting --- first-on-scene situation assessment in high rise fires, inaccessible areas, or involving hazardous materials
7. News organizations --- parades, ceremonies, sporting events, and in situations where danger to the news crew is possible
8. Radioactive and toxic waste sites --- photography & survey without risk
9. Geology --- Oil field exploration; survey & sample of volcanic eruptions
10. Federal & State Forest and Wildlife Services --- tree census; lumber poaching; game and fish poaching
11. Telecommunications --- surveying & designing fiber optic cable installations
12. Meteorological observations --- measuring wind speed, air pressure, air temperature, dew point, and humidity at various altitudes above ground level
13. Raising communications antennas during emergency situations
14. Fishing --- spotting commercial and big game fish; schools of food fish for purse seining; seining schools of small fish and invertebrates for commercial sale as bait
15. Monitoring railways, pipelines, and power lines --- a constant and ever- present requirement
16. Monitoring air pollutants for air quality standards determination
17. Agriculture --- Precision Agriculture techniques using remote sensing technology to monitor crop moisture content; no-harm seeding from the air, in which the soil does not get compacted by heavy tractors, and remains friable as a good seed bed
18. Archaeological site mapping; correlating aerial photographs with ground level excavations and discoveries
19. Commercial aerial photography for tourist and visitors’ bureaus, yacht brokers, school programs; realtors;
20. "Green" non-disruptive exploration of ecologically sensitive biospheres, such as rain forests and forest canopies
21. Lifting transmitting equipment into the sky for maximum range.
22. Radio antennas receiving and relaying Intelligence, Survey, and Reconnaissance (ISR) data from Ground Forces [military]
23. Long term recording in place by meteorological instruments --- anemometers, humidity meters, thermometers, etc.
24. Air sampling for pollutants, particulates, insects, and pollen.
25. Acoustic Sensors for detection of intruders, without the noisy interference of internal combustion engine noise
26. Radio relay and jamming for counter-insurgency purposes. [military]
27. Detecting mines & other explosive devices [military]
28. Thermal Imaging
29. Precise aiming of conventional ballistic weapons from a safe distance by Forward Artillery Observers [military]
30. Battlefield or Distant Control of ground forces [military]
31. Crowd control and detection devices
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The central storage facility would maintain an inventory of these devices. Among typical remote sensing devices is this far-from-comprehensive list:
Imaging / Microscopy Cameras
CCD (Charge-Coupled Devices); Color CCD; Cooled CCD
CID Cameras, Aerial Photography & Video.
Digital cameras
High-speed or slow-motion videography
Holographic imaging
Low-light-level photography
Oscilloscope data recording
Micro-Photographic imaging
Scintillation counters
Time-lapse photography
Ultraviolet and Infrared videography
X-ray photography, and Spectrophotometers
CCD (Charge-Coupled Devices); Color CCD; Cooled CCD
CID Cameras, Aerial Photography & Video.
Digital cameras
High-speed or slow-motion videography
Holographic imaging
Low-light-level photography
Oscilloscope data recording
Micro-Photographic imaging
Scintillation counters
Time-lapse photography
Ultraviolet and Infrared videography
X-ray photography, and Spectrophotometers
Other Sources of Revenue
Operational training of LTA airships pilots
Sale of manuals, books
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