HEAD UP DISPLAY PANEL METER FEATURING LIVE NTSC VIDEO WITH SUPERIMPOSED CONCURRENT MEASUREMENT DATA

AN EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT IS PRESENTED WHICH WILL ENABLE THE CORRELATION OF CRITICAL MEASUREMENTS WITH THE TIME, DATE AND CONCURRENT VIDEO IMAGE OF ICE CONDITIONS. DATA MAY BE ACQUIRED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM MULTIPLE SENSORS SUCH AS WIND (SPEED AND DIRECTION), TEMPERATURE (AIR, WATER, ICE OR OTHER MATERIALS), PRESSURE (BAROMETRIC, STRAIN OR LOAD), WATER FLOW RATE OR OTHER TRANSDUCERS. THESE INPUTS WILL BE CONVERTED INTO COMMON UNITS OF MEASURE AND THEY WILL BE PRESENTED SUPERIMPOSED ON THE LIVE VIDEO IMAGE IN A HEAD UP DISPLAY PRESENTATION STYLE. THE COMBINED VIDEO IMAGE WILL BE RECORDED ON VIDEO TAPE. THE LOGGED VIDEO IMAGE WILL CONTAIN THE VISUAL RECORD OF THE PROBLEM, MAY VISUALLY DOCUMENT THE POSITIONING OF THE SENSORS AND WILL CORRELATE THE VISUAL OBSERVATIONS TO THE SENSOR DATA WITH EXCELLENT TEMPORAL ACCURACY. THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA ACQUIRED IN THE FIELD MUCH MORE PRECISE. THIS INSTRUMENT WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION WHICH COULD BE USED FOR SIMULATION AND MODELING BACK IN THE LABORATORY. SUCH RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS MAY LEAD TO NEW METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, NEW INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR ICE EMERGENCIES AND MAY BE USEFUL IN PROGNOSTICATING THE ABILITY OF EXISTING STRUCTURES TO WITHSTAND PROJECTED ICE LOADS. DOCUMENTATION AND LOGGING OF SCIENTIFIC DATA ABOUT DRIFTING ICE OR OTHER ARCTIC ICE CONCERNS COULD BE ANOTHER APPLICATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY BY THE COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LABORATORY.