Images

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.  

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.

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.

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.  

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.

Matt Burgess (NUSO) setting up the Yellowscan Mapper+ on a DJI M600 for flights at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.

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.

Verifying successful lidar data collection while in the field at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park.

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).

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. 

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".

The YellowScan Navigator Bathymetric Lidar Scanner awaits preflight checks near the South Platte River, Denver, CO.

In January 2024, Joe Adams of the USGS National Uncrewed Systems Office led an A-454 aviation training course at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado.

Geologist Michael Frothingham observes strongly deformed rocks of a Proterozoic shear zone in the Medicine Bow Mountains (Wyoming, USA).

View to the west across Death Valley (California, USA) to the Panamint Mountains. Alluvial fans (foreground) and the salt lake playa of the Badwater basin (middle ground) occupy the basin floor.

Photomigrograph (cross-polarized light) showing branching bunches of calcite filaments grown from algal mats in spring-discharge tufas of Cold Creek Spring (Las Vegas region, Nevada, USA). 

Vivid red, orange, and yellow colors highlight hydrothermally altered rocks on East Red Mountain in the Grizzly Peak caldera (Sawatch Range, Colorado, USA).

Intermountain West Project members discuss an outcrop of the Oligocene-Miocene Troublesome Formation (near Kremmling, Colorado, USA).