Title :
UAVs and HAPs-potential convergence for military communications
Author :
Tozer, Tim ; Grace, David ; Thompson, Jon ; Baynham, Peter
Author_Institution :
York Univ., UK
Abstract :
This overview looks at opportunities for providing military communications from unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), or parallel civilian developments (high altitude platforms-HAPs). Advantages are outlined, and example application scenarios illustrated
Keywords :
remotely operated vehicles; GSM/UMTS; UAV; civilian developments; high altitude platforms; military communications; radio relay; surrogate satellites; unmanned air vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Military Satellite Communications (Ref. No. 2000/024), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:20000130
