John Coffey

NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM) with NOAA UAS Program Continues UAS Surveys of National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR). NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM) with NOAA UAS Program Continues UAS Surveys of National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR).   In September 2017, the team collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and digital imagery using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) at the San Francisco Bay NERR.  This is the third NERR survey in the past year as […]

Her award winning career with NASA and NOAA culminates with the formation of the NOAA UAS Program and successful introduction of UAS to NOAA. UAS Program Director, Robbie Hood retired on September 29th after 30 Years of Government Service.  Her award winning career with NASA and NOAA culminated with the formation of the NOAA UAS Program and successful introduction of UAS to NOAA. While she led the program through numerous “First-of-a-Kind” milestones, SHOUT was the

“Alaska – Our Aircraft Carrier in the Arctic!” The NOAA UAS Program briefed the 2017 Alaska UAS Interest Group Conference in Fairbanks, AK, September 12th-15th.  The Alaska UAS Interest Group Meeting is the premier event for keeping up with developments in the UAS industry in Alaska and beyond.  With the Arctic playing a more important role in international trade, search and rescue logistics, and natural resource extraction than ever before, the program coordinated an Arctic UAS Workshop in January 2017 in support of the Year

The HOPE-EPOCH campaign was a NASA program manager training opportunity directed at training NASA young scientists in conceiving, planning and executing a major airborne science field program. Additional flight hours were provided by NASA Airborne Science and NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office (UASPO) when the full potential of the program was realized in terms of conducting a combined hurricane genesis science investigation and at the same time testing the Global Hawk (GH) Unmanned Aerial

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