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Skyfall 2020: Smartphone Data from a 36 km Drop

Version 1 : Received: 28 July 2021 / Approved: 29 July 2021 / Online: 29 July 2021 (15:30:08 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 7 September 2021 / Approved: 8 September 2021 / Online: 8 September 2021 (12:34:09 CEST)

How to cite: Garces, M.; Bowman, D.; Zeiler, C.; Christe, A.; Yoshiyama, T.; Williams, B.; Colet, M.; Takazawa, S.; Popenhagen, S.; Hatanaka, Y.; Tobin, J.; McLin, K. Skyfall 2020: Smartphone Data from a 36 km Drop. Preprints 2021, 2021070669 Garces, M.; Bowman, D.; Zeiler, C.; Christe, A.; Yoshiyama, T.; Williams, B.; Colet, M.; Takazawa, S.; Popenhagen, S.; Hatanaka, Y.; Tobin, J.; McLin, K. Skyfall 2020: Smartphone Data from a 36 km Drop. Preprints 2021, 2021070669

Abstract

A smartphone plummeted from a stratospheric height of 36 km (~119,000 feet), providing a complete record of its rapid descent and abrupt deceleration when it hit the ground. The smartphone was configured to collect internal sensor data at high rates. We discuss the state-of-the-art of smartphone environmental and sensing capabilities at the closing of year 2020 and present a flexible mobile sensor data model. The associated open-source application programing interface (API) and python software development kit (SDK) used in this work is transportable to any hardware platform and operating system.

Keywords

smartphones; balloons, internet of things; cyber-physical systems

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

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