USGS remote pilot flies a UAS at the Cimarron Canyon in New Mexico

USGS remote pilot Mark Bauer flies a UAS with a stabilized gimbal with vibration dampening mounted with a Sony A7r camera with a locked focus using a 14mm wide angle lens at the Cimarron Canyon in New Mexico. This unique mapping payload allowed the team to collect a complex series of images (with ideal geometry) from various angles around the outcrops achieving a sharply focused set of overlapping images covering a considerable depth-of-field.

NUSO researchers worked with USGS geologists in September 2021 to establish and test unique photogrammetric data collection techniques utilizing UAS along the Paleocene Poison Canyon Formation in the Cimarron Canyon.