AMO UAS Crews Support Florida Post Hurricane Irma | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-04.01.24

Airborne-Unlimited-04.09.24

Airborne-Unlimited-04.10.24 Airborne-Unlimited-04.11.24

Airborne-Unlimited-04.12.24

Join Us At 0900ET, Friday, 4/10, for the LIVE Morning Brief.
Watch It LIVE at
www.airborne-live.net

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

AMO UAS Crews Support Florida Post Hurricane Irma

Flights Collecting Critical Data For Damage Assessment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) crews launched a radar-equipped unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to Florida to collect radar imagery of critical infrastructures before Hurricane Irma made landfall, and after.

UAS crews launched from the National Air Security Operations Center- Corpus Christi (NASOC-CC), which is at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, and began collecting radar imagery of critical infrastructure to compare to imagery collected pre-landfall, allowing officials to gain insight to the damage at critical infrastructures.

AMO crews flying these missions are familiar with flying damage assessment flights.

“Our UAS crews also fly our P-3s and are extremely experienced in flying damage assessment flights,” said William Durham, Director, Air Operations, at NASCOC-CC. “Collecting these types of imagery allow officials to see the damage that the severe weather caused without putting people in the danger zone. These flights also let agency officials see the impact to CBP facilities and surrounding areas which will allow them to estimate when trade can be re-established in the impacted areas.”

The crews performing these missions recently returned to duty following Hurricane Harvey.

“We were able to secure our UAS and P-3 aircraft and our work spaces were spared the flooding and other damage that accompanies gale force winds,” Durham said. “Supporting CBP efforts during Hurricane Irma, allows our crews to support others who are similarly affected.

AMO’s advanced capabilities and skill sets in the air and maritime environments fall within our core competencies: interdiction, investigation, domain awareness, and contingency operations and national tasking missions. AMO performs a wide range of incident-based missions in response to state and federal emergencies, such as disaster relief, continuity of operations, humanitarian operations, search and rescue, tactical team insertions and logistics, and National Special Security Events.

(Image from CBP UAS video)

FMI: www.cbp.gov

Advertisement

More News

Classic Aero-TV: The Switchblade Flying Car FLIES!

From 2023 (YouTube Versions): Flying Motorcycle, That Is… "First Flight was achieved under cloudy skies but calm winds. The Samson Sky team, positioned along the runway, wat>[...]

ANN FAQ: Q&A 101

A Few Questions AND Answers To Help You Get MORE Out of ANN! 1) I forgot my password. How do I find it? 1) Easy... click here and give us your e-mail address--we'll send it to you >[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.12.24): Discrete Code

Discrete Code As used in the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS), any one of the 4096 selectable Mode 3/A aircraft transponder codes except those ending in zero zero; >[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.13.24): Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS)

Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) The operation of a UAS beyond the visual capability of the flight crew members (i.e., remote pilot in command [RPIC], the person manipulating th>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.13.24)

Aero Linx: Florida Antique Biplane Association "Biplanes.....outrageous fun since 1903." That quote really defines what the Florida Antique Biplane Association (FABA) is all about.>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC