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NUSO remote pilot Mark Bauer getting ready to launch a UAS at Ackerson Meadow in California

Mark Bauer (USGS NUSO) observing a UAS in flight at California's Ackerson Meadow controlled by remote pilot Victoria Scholl (USGS NUSO)

Bridge over the Green Mountain Reservoir used as a test site for UAS infrastructure inspections

The NUSO, along with U.S. Bureau of Reclamation participated in a June 2023 test and evaluation of an uncrewed aircraft’s 3D scan capability for assisting with infrastructure inspections near Heeney, Colorado at the Green Mountain Reservoir.

USGS remote pilot Todd Burton flying a UAS at a bridge over the Green Mountain Reservoir

The NUSO, along with U.S. Bureau of Reclamation participated in a June 2023 test and evaluation of an uncrewed aircraft’s 3D scan capability for assisting with infrastructure inspections near Heeney, Colorado at the Green Mountain Reservoir.

UAS mounted with a lidar sensor in flight at the Ackerson Meadow in California

The NUSO, along with U.S. Bureau of Reclamation participated in a June 2023 test and evaluation of an uncrewed aircraft’s 3D scan capability for assisting with infrastructure inspections near Heeney, Colorado at the Green Mountain Reservoir.

UAS operations near Moab, Utah for carbon sequestration research on public lands

USGS NUSO (Victoria Scholl and Matt Burgess) and DOI OAS (Rich Thurau) remote pilots prepare a Headwall Nano-Hyperspec hyperspectral sensor prior to a UAS flight over a BLM AIM plot near 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

Matt Burgess (USGS NUSO) flying a UAS with an attached multispectral sensor at a BLM AIM plot in Utah

Sand sampled for geochemistry and cobbles sampled for cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) dating

Loess deposits sampled for geochemistry and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating.

Drone-captured group photo with USGS remote pilots, White Sands National Park personnel, and USGS geologists standing in and next to a study area with fossilized tracks.

USGS remote pilot Todd Burton powers on UAS in White Sands National Park, April 2023

USGS Geologist Frank Urban checking connections to telemetered data relay near the summit of Gothic Mountain, CO.

Drying soil samples at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. (Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government)

Gothic Mountain in Fall from the town of Gothic, Colorado. The study area for the first phase of the Regional Assessment of Drought Impacts on Soils (RADIS) project is based in the Upper East River and adjacent watersheds.

A view of the East River Valley from the shoulder of Gothic Mountain, Colorado

USGS scientist Mark Bauer landing a UAS at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico

In coordination with the NPS, the NUSO collected scientific UAS data in April 2023 at the White Sands National Park to document trackways before erosion erases their existence.

USGS UAS research team at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico

In coordination with the NPS, the NUSO collected scientific UAS data in April 2023 at the White Sands National Park to document trackways before erosion erases their existence.

USGS scientists Victoria Scholl and Mark Bauer retrieving UAS ground control targets at the White Sands National Park

In coordination with the NPS, the NUSO collected scientific UAS data in April 2023 at the White Sands National Park to document trackways before erosion erases their existence.