Images

Logo in support of the 7th Federal UxS Users Workshop to be hosted March 3-5, 2026

Aerial photo of attendees at the 6th Federal Uncrewed Systems (UxS) Workshop taken from a Skydio drone in front of the Science and Technology building at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

USGS National Innovation Center UAS Research Center Saucer Shark Project, before science flight tests, Aeroshell and payload. Sling configuration and payload orientation verified before science flight deployment. Payload is on and ready to record!

USGS National Innovation Center UAS Research Center Saucer Shark Project, BisonCore displays the path of the sensor live, as it covers transects. Data received from the payload is then displayed within the BisonCore Ecosystem and is accessible for field viewing. The magnetic map is also used to validate payload directed algorithms.

USGS National Innovation Center UAS Research Center (UASRC) Saucer Shark Project, during flight tests, fully assembled. Sub assemblies from top down: Drop Release, Sling and Sling Brace, Payload Aeroshell and Payload.​

USGS National Innovation Center UAS Research Center Saucer Shark Project, during flight tests, aeroshell. Saucer Shark on landing approach after completed mission. Just above the landing pad.

USGS National Innovation Center UAS Research Center Saucer Shark Project, during flight tests, drop release attached to USGS UAV. Aircraft sits on landing pad in-between test flights.

This is a compilation of several images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Wide Angle Camera pulled from USGS Astro servers and displayed and rendered with help from the Celestial Mapping System software tool.

Shown in the image is a visibility analysis for an observer shown as yellow pin located outside the permanently shadowed regions (PSR). The image of PSR and visibility analysis is created with help of Celestial Mapping System tool from a selection of denoised images from NASA/HORUS project.

This is a compilation of several images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Wide Angle Camera pulled from USGS Astro servers and displayed and rendered on the Celestial Mapping System software for craters located on the Lunar south poles

NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) welcome the community to a series of Space Economy Workshops intended to coordinate the development of new technologies to detect and assess off-world mineral resources, as well as to discuss the challenges and opportunities for an off-world mineral resource economy. 

Isaac Anderson (National Innovation Center) preforms a pre-flight check of a UAS before a photogrammetry mission in post-fire, landslide-prone terrain in Tahoe National Forest.

A UAS flies a photogrammetry mission over recently burned landscapes in Tahoe National Forest.

Isaac Anderson and Liz Hyde (National Innovation Center) bring in a drone for a landing, after flying a photogrammetry mission over landslide-prone terrain recently burned in the Mosquito fire (2022).

USGS researches and remote pilots coordinate their operations during a break in the action during a photogrammetry flight campaign in post-fire terrain in Tahoe National Forest.

UAS Research Center BisonCore Project, using onboard autopilot systems, BisonCore on Sandy the Rover instructs the Autopilot to deviate course to follow the UAS Engineer around the parking lot. Acting like a ‘duckling’. 

UASRC BisonCore Project, using onboard systems inherent to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Autopilots, BisonCore-Vehicle Formation Program predicts the path of the vehicle ahead. 

USGS NIC UASRC Saucer Shark equipment marker showing the Saucer flying over trees, with a ‘I WANT TO BELIEVE’ phrase below it. ​

Left to Right: Trond Loke (Norsk Elektro Optikk), Isaac Anderson (USGS) and Liz Hyde (USGS) standing in front of the NASA ER-2 aircraft, during deployment to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Palmdale, CA.

Natural color image from the first flight of the high-altitude HySpex V-1240.  Image is oriented with respect to true North, and is centered around Colombia, CA. 

High-altitude version of the HySpex Mjolnir V-1240 hyperspectral imaging sensor installed in the nose of the ER-2.  This assembly is specially focused for high-altitude imagery and has a lightweight housing design for use on High Altitude Long Endurance UAS.