Assessment of Finescale Local Wind Forecasts Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Control of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) is influenced by local wind field characteristics. Small UAS missions contained within subgrid regions of current numerical weather prediction (NWP...

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