USGS researcher tacking down a calibration tarp at the Eastern Ecological Science Center - Leetown Research Laboratory

USGS researcher Joe Adams tacking down a calibration tarp at the Eastern Ecological Science Center - Leetown Research Laboratory. This calibration tarp will be used to collect reflectance measurements during a mission to develop UAS capabilities to image and identify algae species presence and growth in a controlled setting located in Leetown, West Virginia.

The NUSO in July 2022 collected UAS hyperspectral, multispectral, LiDAR, natural color, and video data as an intermediate scale of observations between satellite overpasses and microscopic analyses to support an interdisciplinary collection of USGS scientists’ efforts to evaluate remote sensing of harmful algal blooms (HABs).