A drift meter, also drift indicator and drift sight, is an optical device used to improve dead reckoning for aircraft navigation by measuring wind effect...
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An ion drift meter is a device used to measure the velocity of individual ions in the area of a spacecraft. This information can then be used to calculate...
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field. The drift speed of electrons is generally in the order of 10-3 meters per second whereas the thermal speed is on the order of 106 meters per second...
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Heading Reference Systems Celestial navigation Client-side prediction Drift meter Extrapolation Honda Point disaster Indoor positioning system Robotic...
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measure the depth of the water and to pick up samples from the bottom. Drift meter optically measures the effects of wind on an aircraft in flight. These...
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includes a Retarding Potential Analyzer (RPA), and Ion Drift meter (IDM), a scintillation meter, and a Langmuir probe. UTD SSIES Homepage Archived 2008-04-04...
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An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, energy meter, or kilowatt-hour meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed...
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which is in the public domain. "Experiment: Retarding Potential Analyser/Drift Meter (RPA)". NASA. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021. This article...
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Dynamics Explorer 2 (section Ion Drift Meter (IDM))
satellite was inverted and the FPI measured galactic emissions. The Ion drift meter (IDM) measured the bulk motions of the ionospheric plasma perpendicular...
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many tens of meters (yards) per day. This process is called "beach drift", but some workers regard it as simply part of "longshore drift" because of the...
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