Calibrating a multispectral sensor mounted on a UAS prior to a flight in Moab Utah

Rich Thurau (DOI OAS) and Matt Burgess (USGS NUSO) calibrating a multispectral sensor mounted on a UAS prior to a flight in Moab Utah

In May 2023, in coordination with Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), the NUSO collected UAS data over two BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) plots at the NEON Moab site to support multi-scale carbon sequestration research on public lands. The UAS data collected included natural-color, multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR to capture diverse information about vegetation and soils.