Making Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Data Available to USGS Scientists and the Public

Prior to this project, data acquired from the USGS Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have been provided to requesting scientists but have not been made available to the broader USGS community, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) bureaus, or the public at large. This project performed a pilot study and developed a strategy that is scalable to evolve into a permanent UAS data management capability. The goal is to make UAS datasets available over the Internet to the USGS, DOI, and public science communities by establishing robust data management strategies and integrating these data with other geospatial datasets in the existing infrastructure located at the USGS EROS Data Center.

Principal Investigator : Jennifer A Lacey, Raad A Saleh
Cooperator/Partner : Jeff L Sloan, Bruce K Quirk