NH13B:
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the Geosciences II

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Session ID#: 16795

Session Description:
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are increasingly being used to expand our ability to observe earth system processes and make measurements not previously possible. Example applications include tracking volcanic gases to mapping the extent of forest fires and from monitoring Earth systems to measuring vegetation health with high spatial and temporal resolution. The different types of UAS available are growing rapidly providing access to small scale systems for short-term rapid response data collection to larger UAS for longer-term continuous monitoring.  The aim of this session is to bring together the geoscience community to present on the newest systems, payloads, and research being performed. We invite contributions from across the AGU focus groups including those who develop and deploy UASs along with those researchers who use UAS data in their research. The session will instigate discussions between the AGU focus-areas and lead to increased cross-disciplinary research and science-transfer across natural hazard sciences.
Primary Convener:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  David C Pieri, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Matthew M Fladeland, NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Alexander Braun, Queens University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Alexander Braun, Queens University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada, David C Pieri, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Matthew M Fladeland, NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, and Public Affairs

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

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • PA - Public Affairs
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:

Development And Testing Unmanned Aerial Systems To Study And Monitoring Volcanoes: INGV Experience Since 2004 (Invited) (138258)
Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno1,2, Stefania Amici3, Fawzi Doumaz2, Jorge Andres Diaz4, Malvina Silvestri2, Massimo Musacchio2, David C Pieri5, Enrica Marotta6, Kenneth C Wright7, Fabio Sansivero8, Stefano Caliro9, Sergio Falcone2 and Fabrizio Giulietti10, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy, (2)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (3)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (4)University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisicae Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy, (7)INFICON, Syracuse, NY, United States, (8)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisicae Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, (9)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Naples, Italy, (10)University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (Invited) (191484)
Robbie Elaine Hood, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, College Park, MD, United States
An update on unmanned aircraft operations along the North Slope of Alaska to understand the lower Arctic troposphere (133350)
Gijs de Boer1, Dale Lawrence2, Scott E Palo3, Brian M. Argrow4, Gabriel LoDolce5, James Mack5, Nathan Curry5, William Finamore5, Joshua Fromm5, Phillip D'Amore2, Doug Weibel2, Charles N. Long6, Ru-Shan Gao7, Hagen Telg8, Beat Schmid9, Mark Ivey10, Albert Bendure10 and Geoff Bland11, (1)BNL, Upton, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA Boulder, GML, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (10)Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
UAV observation of newly formed volcanic island, Nishinoshima, Japan, from a ship (137038)
Takao Ohminato, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Takayuki Kaneko, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Akimichi Takagi, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Analysis of gaseous SO2, CO2 and halogen species in volcanic plumes using a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). (151631)
Julian Rüdiger1, Maarten J de Moor2, Jan-Lukas Tirpitz3, Nicole Bobrowski4, Alexandra Gutmann1 and Thorsten Hoffmann1, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute of Geosciences, Mainz, Germany
Atmospheric Profiles of Carbon Dioxide Obtained with a UAS: Constraints on Square Kilometre Scale Carbon Budgets (174990)
Martin Kunz1, Jost Valentin Lavric1, Richard H Grant2, Christoph Gerbig3, Martin Heimann4, John Evan Flatt2, Matthias J Zeeman5 and Benjamin Wolf6, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Systems, Jena, Germany, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
L-band Soil Moisture Mapping using Small UnManned Aerial Systems (193763)
Eryan Dai1, Albin John Gasiewski1, Maciej Stachura2, Jack Steward Elston2 and Aravind Venkitasubramony1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States
High Resolution Stratigraphic Mapping in Complex Terrain: A Comparison of Traditional Remote Sensing Techniques with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Structure from Motion Photogrammetry (199230)
Paul Ryan Nesbit1, Chris Hugenholtz1, Paul Durkin2, Stephen Michial Hubbard3, Maja Kucharczyk1 and Thomas Barchyn1, (1)University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada

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