Mountain Meteorology Quadcopter

The Mountain Meteorology group has purchased a TurboAce Matrix Quadcopter with the intent of using it as an instrumented device to collect vertical profiles of the lower atmosphere. In addition, a GoPro camera is installed on the copter for in-flight video recording. This could have tremendous benefits for sampling during winter persistent cold air pool events and other phenomena.& Graduate students in the Environmental Instrumentation class are currently testing the maneuvering capabilities of the quadcopter as well as designing methods to mount atmospheric instrumentation. Below is a video from the GoPro camera during one of the initial test flights that took place outside of the William Browning Building on March 12, 2014.