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
Photo collage from 'GEOHuntsville UAS for Rapid Response Functional Exercise'; Chase Industrial Park, Huntsville, AL
DJI Inspire in flight over rural Virginia near sunset
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
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)
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
UAS aerial imagery of tornado damage in Appomattox County, VA; Flight coordinated through Appomattox County EMA and data shared with NWS Blacksburg
Launch of a PMEL Manta UAS with an aerosol payload from the Ny Alesund, Svalbard airport in Norway
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.
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.