2022

ADS-B receiver and plane tracker, or flight tracker software version w API
Second-gen tension monitor with haptic drive unit Tension Monitoring of Aux Tel Top End Using Resonant Frequencies
beam position sensor system
- use lateral effect diode and On-Trak amplifier, plus data collection and digitization system with plots of X vs Y and sum vs. time
- requires Lab Jack digitization of signals, display panel, dedicated mac mini.
Beam deflection monitor system, 30m path length
- use Thor labs autocollimator with distant flat
- fancy version- remote steering of distant mirror to keep spot centered, using low pass filter.
Scintillation monitor system
- set up reflector on top of met tower, launcher on stationary floor
mixed-beam chopper system.
In-dome wind monitoring system
- assemble, test, calibrate, characterize and document the hot wire anemometer wind sensors.
Airflow modeling with COMSOL tool, for
Anemometer analysis
- extract wind vector and acousstic temperature statistics from anemometer data
acoustic index-structure probe
- experiment with acoustic temperature profiling
Archival Pachon water vapor data, from Gemini calibration images
contrail detection from all sky images.
- access the archived set of daytime all-sky camera images at NCSA, and correlate contrails with upper atmosphere models and radiosonde observations.
Infrasound detector, at Harvard observatory.

Who is doing what?

who	project	main mentor	notes
Aris Zhu	~~ADS-B receiver for overhead aircraft~~	Stubbs	Aris starts July 11, need to set up intro sessions ~June 15 so she can join
	filter wheel + diode monitor system, plus fisheye cam
Ali Kurmus	Strobed Imaging DIMM	Elana
Mark Smolinski	Hot wire anemometer wind speed monitoring system for Rubin	Stubbs
~~David Andrade~~	~~mechano-widget, maybe COMSOL modeling too?~~	~~Stubbs~~

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