UAS Aid in South Carolina Tornado Investigation

摘要

Imagery from an unmanned aircraft was instrumental in categorizing a recent storm in South Carolina as being a weak tornado, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The National Weather Service's Eastern Region UAS team was set up in the spring of 2015 to study the use of unmanned aircraft for post-storm damage assessments. In December, they teamed with a local UAS operator SkyView Aerial Solutions to provide aerial footage of a storm in Berkeley County, South Carolina, that proved to be a short-lived tornado but would otherwise have been classified as just straight-line winds.