NH41E:
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Earth Systems Monitoring, Natural Hazard Assessment, and Emergency Response I


Session ID#: 11017

Session Description:
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are now integral assets for emergency management in assessing natural hazard events, such as volcanic eruptions, forest fires and earthquakes, while helping to reduce the risk to people and infrastructure. For instance, a UAS can provide high spatial resolution maps of hazardous events, while carrying out in situ sampling of related airborne hazards (e.g., noxious gases, solid and liquid aerosols) in real time. The data collected from a UAS can be used by the emergency managers to focus rescue efforts and prioritize resources. The aim of this session is to bring together those who use UAS and the data collected in hazard assessment to present on the newest systems, payloads and research being performed. We invite contributions from those groups who develop and deploy the UAS in emergency management and researchers who use the data for predictive, real-time and post-event hazard assessment.
Primary Convener:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  David C Pieri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Philip Andrew McGillivary, US Coast Guard Ice Breaker Operations, Alameda, CA, United States and Alexander Braun, Queens University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Philip Andrew McGillivary, US Coast Guard Ice Breaker Operations, Alameda, CA, United States and Matthew M Fladeland, NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4339 Disaster mitigation [NATURAL HAZARDS]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

New Tools for New Missions - Unmanned Aircraft Systems Offer Exciting Capabilities (Invited) (62047)
Geoff Bland1, Ted Miles2, David C Pieri3, Patrick L Coronado1, Matthew M Fladeland4, Jorge Andres Diaz5, Joseph Cione6, James A Maslanik7, Miguel O O Román1, Gijs de Boer8, Brian M. Argrow9, Jeremy Novara10, Maciej Stachura11, David Neal12 and John Roland Moisan13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Zinger Enterprizes, Wallops Island, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (6)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (10)Vanilla Aircraft LLC, Falls Church, VA, United States, (11)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Barron Associates Inc., Charlottesville, VA, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/WFF, Wallops Island, VA, United States
Unmanned Airborne System Deployment at Turrialba Volcano for Real Time Eruptive Cloud Measurements (84395)
Jorge Andres Diaz1, David C Pieri2, Matthew M Fladeland3, Geoff Bland4, Ernesto Corrales5, Alfred Alan Jr.5, Oscar Alegria5, Richard Kolyer3 and CARTA UAV Missions, (1)University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Gas Lab, CICANUM, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Observations at Kuchinoerabu-jima volcano, southern Kyushu, Japan, by using unmanned helicopter (63174)
Takao Ohminato1, Takayuki Kaneko2, Takao Koyama2, Atsushi Watanabe3, Wataru Kanda4, Takeshi Tameguri5 and Ryunosuke Kazahaya6, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (6)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Use of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) in Response to the 2014 Eruption of Ontake Volcano, Japan (76649)
Toshiya Mori1, Takeshi Hashimoto2, Akihiko Terada3, Hiroshi Shinohara4, Ryunosuke Kazahaya4, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto5 and Ryo Tanaka2, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Volcanic Fluid Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Gunma, Japan, (4)Geological Survey Japan AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Mount Fuji Research Institute, Fujiyoshida, Japan
Cooperative Autonomous Observation of Volcanic Environments with sUAS (Invited) (76003)
Sai Ravela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Cambridge, United States and MIT CAOS Team
UAS and Distributed Temperature Sensing Reveal Previously Unseen Atmospheric Processes (Invited) (63655)
Chad W Higgins1, Ziru Liu2, Heather Holmes3, Michael Wing2, Robert A Predosa4 and David Blunck2, (1)College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Water Resource Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Marginal Ice Zone Processes Observed from Unmanned Aerial Systems (Invited) (85942)
Christopher J Zappa, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
NOAA Atmospheric, Marine and Arctic Monitoring Using UASs (including Rapid Response) (72399)
John J Coffey and Todd Jacobs, NOAA UAS Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States

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