Commercial UAV Expo 2016 – Robbie Hood and the Impact of Drones on Data Management

Robbie Hood has served as the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program office since 2008 and has been part of some pretty incredible developments in that time. Her keynote at the Commercial UAV Expo focused the impact of UAVs on investments in data management, and she made sure to highlight how and why data is a key component in everything for NOAA.

We caught up with her to explore a few of the details she discussed during her keynote, asked specifically about how NOAA is utilizing drones, how they want to be utilizing drones and plenty more.

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Jeremiah Karpowicz

Jeremiah Karpowicz is the Editorial Director of Commercial UAV News. He has spent over a decade cultivating communities of all different types, both in-person and online. He has created articles, videos, newsletters, ebooks and plenty more for these communities as a contributor and editor. He has also shaped and defined various conference programs. Today, he is focused on defining what it means to take the engagement that happens in both the physical and digital worlds to the next level. You can get in touch with him on Twitter: @jeremiahkarp