NOAA

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NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Saving Lives and Protecting Livelihoods through
Improved Earth Observations

• Scott Rayder
• Chief of Staff
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  NOAA
• UVS Canada 2007 Conference-St Johns,
  Newfoundland, Canada
• November 8, 2007

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NOAA Funding Trends
( in Billions)

In FY03, the House did not report or pass an
SJC appropriations bill. The House-Introduced
bill total is used here.
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FY 2007 Constant Dollars
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FY2008 Budget

• NOAA will develop, test, and evaluate UAS
  platforms, payloads, and applications to
  determine their roles in filling critical
  observational gaps currently impeding NOAAs
  environmental monitoring and prediction
  capabilities. This UAS initiative advances the
  development of 21st century observing systems and
  forecast tools and accelerates their infusion
  into the operational forecast environment.
• NOAA FY 2008 Budget SummaryThe Blue Book

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NOAAs Mission
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UAS Budget Summary
FY08 Presidents Budget 3.3M FY08 Presidents Budget 3.3M
Deployment applications in Artic Test Base 0.3M
End-to-end initiatives forecast tools based on UAS 3.0M

FY08 House Mark 3.3M FY08 House Mark 3.3M
Fully supports Presidents request

FY08 Senate Mark 6.0M FY08 Senate Mark 6.0M
Supports Artic Test Base 0.3M
Nearly doubles end-to-end initiatives 5.7M
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UAS Applications

• Climate
• Weather Research
• Coastal Zone Studies
• Fire Monitoring
• Search and Rescue
• Fisheries Enforcement
• Wildlife Monitoring

Search and Rescue
Forest Fires
Improving short-term Hurricane Forecasts
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UAS Applications in the Arctic
Pipeline
Mammal Monitoring
Fisheries Enforcement
Wild Fires
Transboundary Air Pollution from Asia
Coastal Erosion
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Climate Monitoring
Decadal Temperature Change
Strawman Route HALE UAS
WARM
WARM
COLD
COLD
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Fire Fighting Capability Prediction
Smoke jumpers firefighters arrive
Firefighters receive HALE images on their PDAs
Firefighters employ hand held radios connecting
them to each other, their command post, and the
tankers
Courtesy Northrop Grumman
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UAS Applications in the Pacific (35 of earths
surface)
Pacific Typhoon (August 7, 2006)
Feb 2006, Point Upolu, Hawaii, NOAA NMSP Silver
Fox and Manta Project to monitor marine mammals
Ghost Nets
Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument
Worlds largest marine sanctuary and one of the
most pristine marine ecosystems on Earth. It is
home to more than 7,000 species, many seen
nowhere else in the world.
Atmospheric Rivers
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UAS Applications in the Gulf Region

• Harmful Algal Blooms
• Hurricane Forecasting

Harmful Algal Bloom along Florida coastline
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Advancing Earth ObservationsMoving Forward

• GEO Ministerial Summit November 2007, Cape Town
• 72 Members 46 International Organizations
• The U.S. delegation will highlight its regional
  and national accomplishments on
• Drought
• Air Quality
• Disasters
• Sharing data open sources

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GEOSS
Void between satellites and surface-based
sensors UAS have great potential to fill this
void and take observations to complement our
existing platforms
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Bottom Line

• UAS - A Technology Whose Time has Come
• Projected to be a Multi - Billion Dollar Industry
• 3M FY08 Presidents Budget for NOAA
• 3 B in DoD Budget
• American Competitiveness
• US Regional Test Beds Artic, Gulf, East, West
• England, Finland, Canada (Building National
  Bases)
• Europe Investing 500M Euros ( Approx 750M)
• NOAA Needs Your Support for UAS

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Summary

• Unmanned Vehicle Systems can fill large
  monitoring and prediction gaps.
• Unmanned Vehicle Systems can help NOAA advance
  its observational capabilities, thereby improving
  the services it provides to the Nation.
• FY 08 is an important budgetary year in that NOAA
  will be able to get the program started.

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Thank You!