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Photo Gallery

David Fratello
NASA’s AV-6 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance (HALE) UAS platform, undergoing preparations for the first science flight of the 2015 NOAA “SHOUT” project
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Arctic Shield 2015 CONOPS
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Copy of ARB Puma pick up open water
Todd Barron/NWS Huntsville
Photo collage from 'GEOHuntsville UAS for Rapid Response Functional Exercise'; Chase Industrial Park, Huntsville, AL
Copy of pumahealylaunchaerostat
Autonomous Flight Technologies, Inc.
DJI Inspire in flight over rural Virginia near sunset
Frank Padula/NOAA NESDIS National Calibration Center
Testing of small UAS fixed-wing at the NOAA National Estaurine Research Reserve (NERR) in Jug Bay, MD to support the GOES-R UAS Calibration Feasibility Study
NOAA ARL Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
Ed Dumas (left) and Temple Lee (right) preparing a test flight of the DJI s-1000 in support of operations of small UAS to obtain atmospheric boundary layer measurements
First version of the 'Meteodrone' multi-rotor UAS for atmospheric observation in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL)
First version of the 'Meteodrone' multi-rotor UAS for atmospheric observation in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL)
Gerrit Everson
View of NASA’s AV-6 Global Hawk high altitude, long endurance (HALE) UAS platform, as seen shortly after takeoff from the cockpit of the King Air chase plane near Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
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Autonomous Flight Technologies, Inc.
UAS aerial imagery of tornado damage in Appomattox County, VA; Flight coordinated through Appomattox County EMA and data shared with NWS Blacksburg
Patricia Quinn / Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
Launch of a PMEL Manta UAS with an aerosol payload from the Ny Alesund, Svalbard airport in Norway
Autonomous Flight Technologies, Inc
Mapped "Orthomosaic" UAS imagery can help National Weather Service (NWS) offices to perform faster, more efficient storm damage surveys. Quick-look “change detection” analyses represent one benefit provided by this type of image product.
John "JC" Coffey/Cherokee Nation Technologies; UAS Program Office
Testing of UAS operations for fire mapping and atmospheric observation applications during a controlled burn event, hosted by the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium at Tall Timbers Research Station near Tallahasse, FL.