New Tools for New Missions - Unmanned Aircraft Systems Offer Exciting Capabilities

Geoff Bland1, Ted Miles2, David C Pieri3, Patrick L Coronado1, Matthew M Fladeland4, Jorge Andres Diaz5, Joseph Cione6, James A Maslanik7, Miguel O Roman1, Gijs de Boer8, Brian M. Argrow9, Jeremy Novara10, Maciej Stachura11, David Neal12 and John Roland Moisan13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Zinger Enterprizes, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (6)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (10)Vanilla Aircraft LLC, Falls Church, VA, United States, (11)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Barron Associates Inc., Charlottesville, VA, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/WFF, Wallops Island, VA, United States