Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
The Bush administration on Aug. 14 released a report that proposes giving the Interior Department responsibility for coordinating and planning the future of Landsat-type imagery of the Earth's surface. No single government agency up to this point has been assigned responsibility for ensuring the future of Landsat imagery, which is distributed by the Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey.
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is planning operational missions this month of its Ikhana unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), mapping wildfires in the western U.S. using an infrared scanner built by Ames Research Center. The team will fly at 23,000 feet over as many as a dozen of the many fires that rage on in the western states at any given time during the fire season.
Advocates for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hope that the modest request of $3.3 million for UAV activity at the agency in fiscal 2008 will plant the programmatic seeds for the extensive use of UAVs in support of weather prediction and global warming research.
