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Tarp secured to an anchored boat to enable radiometric calibration of the UAS hyperspectral data during post-processing.
Tarp secured to an anchored boat to enable radiometric calibration of the UAS hyperspectral data during post-processing.
Matt Burgess (NUSO) and Brandon Sansom (CERC) compare waypoints in UAS flight plans during field tests the day prior to the dye release. A train travels across the farmland in the background.
Matt Burgess (NUSO) and Brandon Sansom (CERC) compare waypoints in UAS flight plans during field tests the day prior to the dye release. A train travels across the farmland in the background.
NUSO remote pilot Matt Burgess flies a DJI Matrice 600 Pro UAS with hyperspectral payload from a levee on the south bank of the Missouri River.
NUSO remote pilot Matt Burgess flies a DJI Matrice 600 Pro UAS with hyperspectral payload from a levee on the south bank of the Missouri River.
Chart showing number of dated midden samples occurring in each 1,000-year (calibrated radiocarbon) interval recorded in the USGS North American Packrat Midden Database, Version 5.0.
Chart showing number of dated midden samples occurring in each 1,000-year (calibrated radiocarbon) interval recorded in the USGS North American Packrat Midden Database, Version 5.0.
Example of the kind of plant specimen housed in the collection of the Quaternary Paleobotany Laboratory, located in the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center.
Example of the kind of plant specimen housed in the collection of the Quaternary Paleobotany Laboratory, located in the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center.
Picture of the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial from the NPS Visitors Center located on South Bass Island, Put in Bay, Ohio in Lake Erie.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
Picture of the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial from the NPS Visitors Center located on South Bass Island, Put in Bay, Ohio in Lake Erie.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
Image of the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial taken from a drone
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
Image of the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial taken from a drone
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
NUSO researchers Matt Burgess and Todd Burton observing manual flight of a DJI M600 configured with a Sony A7R payload.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
NUSO researchers Matt Burgess and Todd Burton observing manual flight of a DJI M600 configured with a Sony A7R payload.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
NUSO team members Todd Burton, Lance Brady and Matt Burgess at the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial to conduct UAS photogrammetric survey mission.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
NUSO team members Todd Burton, Lance Brady and Matt Burgess at the Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial to conduct UAS photogrammetric survey mission.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
View from the top of Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial looking to the north.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
View from the top of Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial looking to the north.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
DJI M600 with Sony A7R on Gremsy gimbal manually flown to supplement stereo imagery at Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
DJI M600 with Sony A7R on Gremsy gimbal manually flown to supplement stereo imagery at Perry Victory and International Peace Memorial.
The NUSO and the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Document Programs partnered in May 2024 to perform a UAS-based 3D scan of Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial.
Paul Henne develops wildfire models using records of past climate and area burned. These models when combined with sedimentary records help scientists understand long-term interactions among climate, vegetation, people, and wildfire.
Paul Henne develops wildfire models using records of past climate and area burned. These models when combined with sedimentary records help scientists understand long-term interactions among climate, vegetation, people, and wildfire.
Matt Burgess (NUSO) setting up the Yellowscan Mapper+ on a DJI M600 for flights at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Matt Burgess (NUSO) setting up the Yellowscan Mapper+ on a DJI M600 for flights at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Josh Von Nonn (WGSC) and Keith Williams (Wingtra) on top of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park Visitor Center using it as the UAS ground station to maintain visual line of site for the Wingtra flight missions.
Josh Von Nonn (WGSC) and Keith Williams (Wingtra) on top of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park Visitor Center using it as the UAS ground station to maintain visual line of site for the Wingtra flight missions.
Picture of the UAS Project Team at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park NPS Visitors Center located near Brownsville, Tx. From left to right, Scott McTavish (Wingtra), Keith Williams (Wingtra), Matt Burgess (NUSO), Josh Von Nonn (WGSC), Lance R. Brady (NUSO), Lee Bragg (NPS), Samuel Chambers (WGSC).
Picture of the UAS Project Team at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park NPS Visitors Center located near Brownsville, Tx. From left to right, Scott McTavish (Wingtra), Keith Williams (Wingtra), Matt Burgess (NUSO), Josh Von Nonn (WGSC), Lance R. Brady (NUSO), Lee Bragg (NPS), Samuel Chambers (WGSC).
Texas tortoise in the wild located at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Texas tortoise in the wild located at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Verifying successful lidar data collection while in the field at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Verifying successful lidar data collection while in the field at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.
Physical Scientist Michelle Leung and Research Geologist Natalie Kehrwald prepare sediment samples from Santa Fe Lake, New Mexico to analyze records of interactions between past fires and human activity over the last few thousand years.
Physical Scientist Michelle Leung and Research Geologist Natalie Kehrwald prepare sediment samples from Santa Fe Lake, New Mexico to analyze records of interactions between past fires and human activity over the last few thousand years.
Research Geologist Adam Hudson installs a soil temperature and moisture monitoring station for a topographic asymmetry study in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA).
Research Geologist Adam Hudson installs a soil temperature and moisture monitoring station for a topographic asymmetry study in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA).
View looking eastward from the northern Funeral Mountains (California, USA), where early Cenozoic sedimentary strata are unconformably overlain by middle Miocene volcaniclastic deposits.
View looking eastward from the northern Funeral Mountains (California, USA), where early Cenozoic sedimentary strata are unconformably overlain by middle Miocene volcaniclastic deposits.
Detail of tree-ring cross-section from southern Colorado. This photo, and others like it, are published in the USGS Data Release "Preserving Tree-Ring Datasets for Climate and Hazard Research and Understanding Societal Impacts: Colorado Fire, Climate, Humans".
Detail of tree-ring cross-section from southern Colorado. This photo, and others like it, are published in the USGS Data Release "Preserving Tree-Ring Datasets for Climate and Hazard Research and Understanding Societal Impacts: Colorado Fire, Climate, Humans".