{"id":1370,"date":"2013-05-02T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2013-05-02T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:31:14","slug":"ama-member-chris-sallis-developing-innovative-uas-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2013\/05\/02\/ama-member-chris-sallis-developing-innovative-uas-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA Member Chris Sallis Developing Innovative UAS Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>UAH Students\u2019 Octocopter An Aerial Option For Storm\u00a0Surveys<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/2013\/04\/25\/uah-student-designs-rc-helicopter-for-surveying-storm-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1371 alignright\" alt=\"OctocopterVideo\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/OctocopterVideo-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/OctocopterVideo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/OctocopterVideo.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The perspective gained with aerial surveillance has become an integral part of weather service analysis after the storm. &#8216;Especially when we\u2019re dealing with larger tornadoes, more violent tornadoes with longer tracks because it gives us a bigger, a better perspective of the damage in more of the harder hit areas,&#8217; said Huntsville Warning Coordination Meteorologist David Nadler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) such as the octo-copter seen in this video are providing an effective and affordable means fo assess storm damage by providing aerial images that can provide side-by-side views of the before and after affects of damaging storms.<\/p>\n<p>The octo-copter used\u00a0to capture the aerial video in this story was designed by AMA Member and UAH student Chris Sallis and his engineer buddies Mike and Richard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t really happy with many products on the market so we developed our own frame and integrated a lot of systems that were commercially available and some we developed ourselves,\u201d said Sallis<\/p>\n<p>Chris has been flying remote craft as a hobby for 14 years now, but this sophisticated system allows footage to be streamed instantly in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to read the complete story online at <a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WHNT 19 News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/2013\/04\/25\/uah-student-designs-rc-helicopter-for-surveying-storm-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\">UAH Students\u2019 Octocopter An Aerial Option For Storm\u00a0Surveys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich Hanson<br \/>\nAMA Government and Regulatory Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAH Students\u2019 Octocopter An Aerial Option For Storm\u00a0Surveys &#8220;The perspective gained with aerial surveillance has become an integral part of weather service analysis after the storm. &#8216;Especially when we\u2019re dealing with larger tornadoes, more violent tornadoes with longer tracks because it gives us a bigger, a better perspective of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}