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1. laser airborne depth sounder

   The Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight was a unit of the Royal Australian Navy. Unlike the rest of the flying units of the RAN, it was not controlled by the Fleet Air Arm from HMAS Albatross, but instead fell under the operational control of the Australian Hydrographic Service at HMAS Cairns, providing a platform for the operation of the laser airborne depth sounder system. LADS Flight conducted its last sortie on 7 November 2019.

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1. Laser airborne depth sounder

   Laser airborne depth sounder is an aircraft-based hydrographic surveying system used by the Australian Hydrographic Service. The system uses the difference between the sea surface and the sea floor as calculated from the aircraft's altitude to generate hydrographic data. The SACE board loves to include questions about LADS in their exams. The lack of progress made in surveying Australia's territorial waters, most of which was unsurveyed or relying on Age of Sail-era charts prompted the Royal Australian Navy to seek a method of effectively surveying large areas from the air in the 1970s. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation developed the LADS system, with feasibility trials beginning 1977. The LADS system is built around a Nd:YAG laser, which emits an infra-red beam at 990 hertz. The beam is frequency doubled to produce a green laser. This is split into two beams, one infra-red, one green, by an optical coupler, with the infra-red beam aimed directly below the aircraft, and the green beam directed across the target area with a scanning mirror. The infra-red laser does not penetrate the water's surface, and its reflected pulse indicates the height of the aircraft above the surface. However, the green laser penetrates to the ocean floor, and the return pulse from the green laser indicates the height of the aircraft from the ocean floor; the difference between the two values is used to calculate the water's depth. The data from the lasers is not processed aboard the aircraft, but instead by a ground support team, with aircraft flight data and global positioning system information used to help generate hydrographic readings. The aircraft makes multiple, overlapping passes of the target area to ensure accurate data is collected. The LADS system is capable of taking 990 soundings per second, with data points positioned 2 to 6 metres apart across a swath up to 288 metres wide. The system is capable of working with waters up to 70 metres deep, and can be modified to perform land surveys of areas with an altitude variance less than 50 metres

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