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NOAA scientists are always looking for ways to increase their ability to collect data and meet NOAA mission requirements, One way to enhance this ability is to fly uncrewed aircraft operations beyond visual line of sight.
Science teams across NOAA use uncrewed systems to augment the capabilities of traditional data-gathering tools to meet NOAA mission needs.
Saildrone uncrewed surface vehicles, funded by the NOAA Uncrewed Systems Operations Center, contributed to new research on how changes in ocean surface temperature affect our atmosphere’s stability and movement.
To celebrate Women’s History Month this March, we’re highlighting some of the NOAA Uncrewed Systems Operations Center (UxSOC) team that is working to expand the use of uncrewed systems.
The Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Division is rolling out a new initiative that will provide new drones, or uncrewed aircraft systems, to NOAA users.
In fall of 2024 NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA’s Uncrewed Systems Operations Center, their industry partner Exail and academic partner the University of Rhode Island Inner Space Center conducted field operations utilizing an uncrewed marine system.
As NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson set sail from Kodiak, Alaska to collect data in support of annual stock assessments this summer, it had a new data gathering partner onboard.
From July 17 to Aug. 4, 2023, a team of NOAA and industry uncrewed aircraft professionals conducted flight operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California, to expand the agency’s use of uncrewed aircraft to gather mission critical data.
