Flying a UAS with an attached multispectral sensor at a BLM AIM plot in Utah

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