NH23D:
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Geosciences: Research and Development Posters


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Session ID#: 54045

Session Description:
Originating mostly from military applications, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) use in geoscience research is continuing to expand, given their flexibility and usability. Even now advanced sensors are being miniaturized and developed specifically for use on a UAS. High precision observations can be used to track volcanic gases, map forest fires, measure river-ice breakup, monitor critical infrastructure, and measure vegetation health. The aim of this session is to bring together geosciences to present on the newest UAS, payloads, and research. We invite contributions including those in formal and applied science, system and sensor development and UAS integration into manned airspace as well as in developing new missions and ongoing campaigns to collect geoscience data. The session will bring together leading experts in all aspects of UAS planning, regulations, operations, data collection, processing, and analysis to initiate discussions and share experiences for fostering cross-disciplinary research and knowledge-transfer across the 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:  Sabastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David C Pieri, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Chairs:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Sabastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David C Pieri, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • 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:

Boresight Calibration of a UAS Mounted LiDAR using a 3D Photogrammetry Model (381173)
Jacob Wright Clarke, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Marvin Andrew Speece, Montana Tech, Butte, MT, United States and Jeremy Crowley, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, MBMG, Butte, MT, United States
Use of UAV and photogrammetry in discontinuity investigation for wedge failure of rock slope (403242)
Shao-Ru Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Wei-Kai Huang, Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan and Ming-Lang Lin, National Taiwan University, Department of Civil Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan
A new monitoring approach for gully erosion combining UAV imageries and historical aerial photographs on Loess Plateau of China (429081)
Yabing Guan, Shengtian Yang and Changsen Zhao, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for Velocimetry Estimation (368487)
Courtney Jackson, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Alfred J Kalyanapu, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States and Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Trace Gas Quantification with the UKySonde During the 2018 LAPSE-RATE Campaign (416789)
Travis John Schuyler, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Sean Bailey, University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Lexington, United States and Marcelo I Guzman, University of Kentucky, Department of Chemistry, Lexington, KY, United States
Surface temperature monitoring by Earth Observation optical data, drones and field campaigns in the Central Italy geothermal districts (374595)
Enrica Marotta1, Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno2, Malvina Silvestri2, Pasquale Belviso1, Gala Avvisati1, Federico Rabuffi3, Vito De Leo4 and Vittorio Longo4, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)IDS Corporation, Roma, Italy
Opportunities from Unmanned Aircraft Systems for the hydrogeological hazard assessment in steep-slope agricultural landscapes (421254)
Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy, Anton Pijl, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy and Teun Vogel, Cambisol BV, Bennekom, Netherlands
Using Terrestrial and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Based Photographs for 3D Documentation of a Medieval Castle in Turkey (369143)
Dursun Zafer Zafer Seker, Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Maslak, Turkey, Ozan Ozturk, Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey and Sinasi Kaya, Istanbul University, Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul, Turkey

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