RMA Supports Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Conference in Alaska

 

The Alaska Region of DOI National Business Center, Aviation Management Directorate, is hosting the Fourth Annual Alaska UAS Interest Group Conference in Anchorage September 13-15, 2011. Employees associated with the Rocky Mountain Area (RMA)--including Leanne Hanson (FORT), Phil Owen (RMGSC), David Johncox (USGS Aviation Safety Manager), and Lisa Scales (RMGSC)--are providing support for the conference as well as several presentations. (Hanson was part of a USGS-FWS team that planned and conducted a pilot study in the spring of this year, using the Raven A small UAS to count migrating sandhill cranes in south-central Colorado.) Also planned for the conference are demonstration flights of the Raven A and possibly the Shadow and Scan Eagle small UASs. (Leanne Hanson, Fort Collins, CO, 970-226-9262)

 For more information contact: Leanne Hanson

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 Raven (A) small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Test Flights

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