August 2017

SHOUT mission successes highlighted at the inter-agency conference. The NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program briefed UNOL’s Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research (SCOAR) on the recent mission successes and lessons learned over the past year.   The results of the SHOUT satellite gap mitigation study and UAS shipboard operations were highlighted by John “JC” Coffey supporting NOAA.  The UAS shipboard Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) were the focus on the second day of the conference.   The […]

Global Hawk 2015 & 2016 hurricane data is made publicly available for advanced research and analysis. The NOAA UAS Data Management Plan (DMP) was developed within the framework of the Environmental Data Management Committee (EDMC) for handling UAS instrumentation package data and covers acquisition, ingest, quality control, integration, visualization and archiving. Recommendations from that plan were used to prototype and demonstrate all phases of the UAS data lifecycle from real-time operations to post analysis and

Tribal Interest Group for UAS Webinar Discusses Common Interests and the Warm Springs Tribes FAA UAS Test Site. The NOAA UAS Program and DOI’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) co-hosted the quarterly meeting of the Tribal Interest Group for UAS on August 3rd. Several tribal and non-tribal representatives were were present and discussed current Native American UAS operations, future concepts of operations and STEM opportunities. NOAA’s Robbie Hood and John “JC” Coffey led the webinar from

The industry advisory board will be held in Washington, D.C. at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. The NOAA UAS Program is co-hosting the National Science Foundation’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems as it holds its semi-annual Industry Advisory Board (IAB) meetings to review research progress and re-evaluate how our projects are meeting industry needs. It will be held in Washington, D.C. at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. Regular IAB

NOAA Brief’s Department of Interior’s (DOI) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Users Group on Successful Optionally Pilot Aircraft (OPA) Flights for GRAV-D Missions. The NOAA GRAV-D and UAS Programs briefed DOI’s UAS Users Group on the successful use of the Aurora Flight Sciences’ Centaur Optionally Pilot Aircraft (OPA), Flights for GRAV-D Missions.  On August 2nd, Monica Youngman and John “JC” Coffey described the beginnings of the project as a NOAA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant