Wednesday, October 22, 2014

How to measure weather balloon altitude?

My daughter would like to release a weather balloon for a Science project. We will be sending up a 1600 gram Balloon with a GoPro camera and a GPS tracking device. We would also like to possibly record measurements such as temps (Below 60), pressures, wind speed, elevation at burst. Really, any information that we can gather. I realize that a radiosonde would capture this info for us, but because we can not purchase these, nor do I have the equipment/expertise to read the info from a raiosonde. What are my other options?

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