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Yankee personnel have many years of education and decades of experience experience in research & development, product design, and operations. Some of our expertise includes:

Meteorology 

• Radar Meteorology
• Satellite Meteorology
• Numerical Weather Prediction
• Mesoscale Meteorology
• Aviation Meteorology
• Synoptic Meteorology
• Upper Air Systems (Radiosondes, Dropsondes, Tetheredsondes)

Electronic Design  

• Precision analog instrumentation
• Digital and embedded systems design
• High speed analog signal acquisition and processing
• Digital CCD imaging
• High reliability systems design
• Real time control systems
• Circuit simulation
• RF telemetry for dropsonde/radiosonde systems

Mechanical Design

• Mechanical system design of complex systems
• Thermal and stress finite element analysis
• Mechanical finite element stress analysis
• Environmental hardening and testing
• Gas physics and fluids
• Generalized control theory

Software Design

• Digital image processing and analysis software
• Embedded system software
• Distributed system design
• User interface design
• Fault tolerant system design
• Relational database design and integration
• Multi-platform network management and TCP/IP security

Optics 

• Atmospheric optical modeling for LIDAR and radiometry
• Design of optical sensors for on line process water vapor measurement, acousto-optic spectrometry, and trace gas analysis
• Spectrometer system design
• Radiometer design
• LIDAR system design
• Angular, spectral linearity and absolute laboratory characterization of advanced optical radiometric and imaging systems

Our R&D team's sensor prototype design efforts are supported by a suite of state-of-the-art analytical design tools. Examples include:

• Optical ray trace programs
  • TracePro

  • Beam IV

  • LIDAR-PC

• Computer aided mechanical design (CAD)

  • SolidWorks
  • Ashlar Vellum
  • Finite Element Analysis using COSMOS/Works, ALGOR, ANSYS
• Computer aided electronic design (CAE)
  • Electronics Workbench/Multisim
  • SPICE
  • EXPRESS PCB
  • OrCAD CAPTURE and PCB
  • FPGA/PLD Desigg tools
• Computational and Simulation Software
  • MATLAB/SIMULINK
  • Igor PRO
  • LabView
  • IDL
  • MATHCAD
  • VIS SIM
  • C/Pascal/C++/FORTH/Assembly
• Atmospheric propagation codes
  • PC-MODWIN 
  • LOWTRAN
  • HITRAN

Other advanced design tools have been developed in-house, greatly enhancing our sensor and system design capabilities.