On jeu 27 mars 2008, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:40 AM, D M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If somebody looks up some ship blueprints on > > http://www.the-bleuprints.com or some other blueprint site of a ship I'll > > model something this evening. > > Does it have to be a surveillance ship? There are not many blueprints I > > can find from them. > > I am going to try to get some schematics of the ship and take a picture of > them to post. The ship I am currently on started out as a navy > surveillance vessel, but was taken out of service and transfered to NOAA > and is now used as a research ship. Our current cruise is dedicated to > marine debris location and removal. > > A few NOAA researchers have come up with some theories of using satellite > imagery/data to detect "convergence" zones in the ocean currents. Along > with converging debris, wildlife and plant life also converges in these > zones. So we are starting out with a satellite based prediction of the > convergence zone. Now along the way we are taking water samples every 15nm > to measure conductivity, temperature, and chlorophyll content of the water > down to depths of 500m. We should see a significant change in these > measurements when we cross the boundary into the convergence zone. Almost > analogous to crossing a "weather" front. > > During this whole cruise we have a team keeping watch from the roof of the > bridge (aka the fly deck) using hand held binoculars and also using 2 25x > power "big eye" binoculars that are swivel mounted and have calibration > marks so anything in the water can be geolocated relative to the ship. > > Finally, when we do get to the convergence zone and the likely debris > field, we will commence UAS operations. That's where I plug in. We want > to use an airborne camera system launched from the ship to extend the > visual range of the ship and test the effectiveness of this approach > relative to the other approaches in locating debris. > > We have a big cargo container on the fan tail of the ship that we hope to > fill with debris. Some people think we'll come back empty handed (big > ocean), and some people seem to think we can walk across the debris. The > truth is likely somewhere in between. Hopefully we'll come back with a > full load of garbage and demonstrate the effectiveness of an airborne > camera relative to observers on the ship and come up with a truth reference > for the satellite prediction models. > > Interestingly, even way away from the convergence zone and from land, our > observers are picking out bits of debris periodically, so there is plenty > of stuff floating around out here if you are dedicated to looking for it. > > So, the reason I asked about building a 3d model of our ship, is that I > could plug it into our FlightGear based synthetic view (and replay) system, > and increase the ooh/ahh factor. > > That is all, > > Curt.
Hello, Here is a nice Photo of the ship when she was "Adventurous" T-AGOS-13 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/USNS_Adventurous_%28T-AGOS-13%29.jpg That photo can give an idea of the shape of the hull. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
