Development and Deployment of Unmanned Aircraft Instrumentation for Measuring Quantities Related to Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions

Gijs de Boer1, Dale Lawrence2, Jack Steward Elston2, Brian M. Argrow3, Scott E Palo4, Nathan Curry2, William Finamore2, James Mack2, Gabriel LoDolce2, Beat Schmid5, Charles N. Long6, Geoff Bland7, James A Maslanik8, Ru-Shan Gao9, Hagen Telg10, Steven Semmer11, Gordon Maclean11, Mark Ivey12, Terrence F. Hock11, Bruce Bartram9, Albert Bendure12 and Maciej Stachura13, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Wallops Island, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA Boulder, GML, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (13)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States