New agreement is to advance unmanned systems research and operations activities for NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) and Scripps ...

No audio available for this content. Joseph Cione, hurricane researcher at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and principal investigator of NOAA s Coyote project, holds the ...

Unmanned aircraft bearing automated sensors may soon help NOAA scientists better predict a hurricane’s intensity and track, how fast Arctic summer ice will melt, and whether soggy Pacific storms will ...

WASHINGTON--For decades, U.S. government scientists have sliced specially equipped planes through hurricanes and other severe weather on a quest for crucial data to fuel weather forecasts. But in the ...

Can unmanned aircraft be used effectively for Earth Science experiments? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in cooperation with NASA and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ...

An adult female Southern Resident killer whale (L94) is nursing her calf. Lactation is energetically costly for these whales, and future photogrammetry images of the calf's growth and the mother's ...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to expand its use of unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to improve weather forecasting and better predict the behavior of dangerous storms.

Three test projects to study weather and climate phenomena with unmanned aircraft will begin this summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week, adding that it has ...

An AAI-built and -owned Aerosonde Mk3 unmanned aircraft was intentionally ditched into the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina on 3 November after taking an unprecedented close-up look at a Category 1 ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants the crafts to work alone for 30 days or more as they collect data in calm and rough seas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...