CopterSonde Featured on KFOR's "Wicked Weather 2025"
As Oklahoma gears up for the spring severe weather season, KFOR-TV’s “Wicked Weather 2025” special showcased our lab’s innovative drone technology. The segment details how our integrated sensing and simulation approach translates directly to improving warnings across the state.
Dr. Elizabeth N. Smith
Research Meteorologist
Elizabeth joined NSSL as a research meteorologist in January 2020, where she focuses on boundary-layer processes relevant to near- and pre-storm environments and convection initiation.
Dr. Antonio R. Segales
Research Engineer
My research centers around developing small unmanned aircraft systems for adaptive atmospheric sampling which involves CAD modeling, systems optimization, hardware and software integration, and control theory. I have led the design of the CopterSonde series of vehicles, which is used to perfrom controlled and targeted weather sampling at high temporal and spatial resolutions. I am also advising other projects in which sensor integration or new UAS are required.