Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are changing the way we collect and process geoscience data. Their capabilities and potential applications will only continue to grow. Automated systems are now used for routine data collection in high-risk environments, emergency response activities, and precision agriculture for species composition monitoring and evaluating vegetation health. The aim of this session is to bring together geoscience researchers to present on the newest systems, payloads, and research goals. We invite contributions from those integrating these autonomous systems into their scientific research, system and sensor development teams, as well as those operators working on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into research. The session brings together experts in all aspects of autonomous and unmanned system mission planning, regulations, operations, data collection, processing, and analysis to foster interdisciplinary research and knowledge-transfer across the sciences.