Development of sUAS system for long-endurance and heavy-lift capabilities. SUPER allows swap-able power sources between battery electric (35 min @ 55 lb AUW) and gas-electric (55 min @ 55 lb AUW). Systems have been deployed to Orange Beach, Alabama, Grand Mesa, Colorado and Crested Butte, Colorado.  This project involves:

• Hardware design and system selection of the sUAS

• Integration of moving baseline RTK for interference-free heading measurements

• Flight testing, tuning and composition of operating manual

Project in publication

• T. D. Luong, M. Thapa, A. Bhandari, J. D. Larson, and S. Mulani, “Design of a Small Unmanned Platform for Experimental Remote Sensing,” in 2025 AIAA AVIATION Forum and Exposition, July 2025, accepted

• O. Reyhanigalangashi et al., "Ultra-Wideband Bistatic Radar Measurements of Snow," in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 894-905, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/JMW.2024.3453941.