10 Dec Black Swift Technologies: 2024 in Review
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20 Nov How do you study a hurricane? Meet the fancy tech behind the science
How do you study a hurricane? Meet the fancy tech behind the science, By Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today (November 17, 2024) A growing array of tools to measure conditions inside one of nature's most fearsome storms saw quite a workout in the 11 hurricanes,...
09 Oct Hurricane Milton Has Reshaped Storm Science Even Before Making Landfall
Hurricane Milton Has Reshaped Storm Science Even Before Making Landfall, By Lauren Rosenthal and Eric Roston, Bloomberg (October 9, 2024) To predict “explosive” storms, hurricane scientists need an ocean of data to feed into newer models. ...
25 Sep Meteorologists Tracking Hurricane Helene Have Gone High-Tech
Meteorologists Tracking Hurricane Helene Have Gone High-Tech, by Eric Niiler, The Wall Street Journal (September 25, 2024) Hurricane-hunting aircraft have been flying into powerful storms for decades, but high-tech drones are doing things that humans can’t. ...
12 Sep CU grad and entrepreneur gets job with Hurricane Hunters
CU grad and entrepreneur gets job with Hurricane Hunters, 9News (September 12, 2024) When CU Boulder engineering graduate Jack Elston started his small business in 2011, he had no idea that it would eventually place him in the passenger seat of an NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft. But that's exactly...
20 Aug M&R Environmental Solutions – From Afghanistan to AI-Powered Drone Threat Detection
M&R Environmental Solutions - From Afghanistan to AI-Powered Drone Threat Detection, By Dawn Zoldi for AUSVI (August 20, 2024) CEO Alex Momand of M&R Environmental Solutions, pointed to Boulder, Colorado-based Black Swift Technologies (BST) a specialized engineering firm best known for developing drones designed for beyond-visual-line-of-sight...
19 Aug Behind the technologies at the forefront of improving NOAA hurricane data
Behind the technologies at the forefront of improving NOAA hurricane data, By Madison Alder for FEDSCOOP (August 19, 2024) Drones and small data-collection devices aim to improve measurements used to track and monitor the intense tropical cyclones in an effort to provide potentially life-saving information. ...
19 Aug Record breaking drone flight gathers critical data inside Hurricane Ernesto
Record breaking drone flight gathers critical data inside Hurricane Ernesto, NOAA Communications (August 19, 2024) One of the largest challenges in hurricane research is studying the inner dynamics of a storm. The regions within the hurricane that provide the most valuable data are often the most...