DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Col. Bradley G. Butz, Vice Commander of the 480th ISR Wing, Langley AFB

Col. Bradley G. Butz Vice Commander of the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Va. (Photo Courtesy of Airforce ISR Agency)

Col. Bradley G. Butz Vice Commander of the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Va. (Photo Courtesy of Airforce ISR Agency)

On Friday, Jan. 15 at 9 a.m. ET we interviewed Col. Bradley G. Butz, vice commander of the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, based at Langley Air Force Base, Va.

Col. Butz discussed global imagery and the use of the RQ-4 Global Hawk in support of the relief efforts in Haiti.

To view Col. Butz bio, click here.

To view the transcript from this interview, click here.

He will also explain how the images captured by the Global Hawk are being compared to those captured during a bar camera mission this past June. These images will aid workers on the ground so they have historical images to compare to the current ones.

To view Col. Butz’s bio, click here

To listen to this roundtable, click here

To view a transcript from this article, click here.

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