USGS personnel at the UAS ground control station discussing flight parameters for the day’s drone flights near EROS

USGS ECCOE and NUSO personnel at the UAS ground control station discussing flight parameters for the day’s drone flights near EROS

Left to Right:
Back Row -- Mahesh Shrestha (ECCOE), Tom Cecere (NLI HQ), Jeff Irwin (ECCOE), Joe Adams (NUSO)
Front Row -- Matt Burgess (NUSO), Victoria Scholl (NUSO)

In support of radiometric calibration and validation research at USGS EROS Calibration/Validation Center of Excellence (ECCOE), the NUSO in July 2023 collected multispectral and hyperspectral UAS data at several sites near the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.