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Al Powell Al spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force as a weather
officer. During his Air Force career, he worked as a weather forecaster,
coordinated DMSP data receipt at a deployable satellite van, headed the
Air Force Space Environmental Support Branch, commanded a weather
detachment in North Dakota, supported and investigated environmental
impacts on classified national programs, and analyzed environmental data
associated with numerous Air Force missions.
After his Air Force environmental career, Dr. Powell chose to work for
Autometric Inc., a remote sensing company, that analyzed imagery and
developed the tools, visualization and data fusion applications to support
the use of remotely sensed data. Autometric was purchased by Boeing Inc in
2000. While at Boeing Autometric, he headed the Environmental Applications
Division that developed environmental tools and products for the analysis,
fusion, and integration of environmental data for both Department of
Defense and civil applications. These tools encompassed the atmospheric,
oceanic, and space modeling. Tools for the fusion of hydroacoustic,
infrasound, seismic and radionuclide transport information into
comprehensive integrated applications were built to support Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty monitoring under a $6M proposal award. He published
several papers on these tools and their application to real world
problems. He was principal investigator on major proposals like the $1M
proposal for the Advanced Research and Development Activity to develop
improved techniques for analyzing environmental data in conjunction with
integrated geospatial data and relational databases.
Dr. Powell has been the Deputy Director and now Director for NOAA's
Center for Satellite Applications and Research (formerly Office of
Research and Applications) for the last five years, supporting research on
satellite products by managing the office's 100 scientists and staff plus
approximately 100 support contractors.
Dept. of Commerce • NOAA • NESDIS • STAR • Last revised: March 15, 2012
Al Powell
Al Powell Al spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force as a weather
officer. During his Air Force career, he worked as a weather forecaster,
coordinated DMSP data receipt at a deployable satellite van, headed the
Air Force Space Environmental Support Branch, commanded a weather
detachment in North Dakota, supported and investigated environmental
impacts on classified national programs, and analyzed environmental data
associated with numerous Air Force missions.