NH005
Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Geoscience Research Platforms for the 21st century
Session ID#: 82407
Session Description:
Autonomous and unmanned systems are changing the way that 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 manned airspace. 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.
Index Terms:
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4339 Disaster mitigation [NATURAL HAZARDS]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Convener: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners: Robert P. Dahlgren, CSUMB/NASA Ames Research Center, MS245-4, Moffett Field, CA, United States; California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Sebastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Peter W Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
UAV and optical satellite data comparison to monitor surface temperature using thermal images: 2019 campaign on Italian geothermal district in Tuscany (492943)
Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno1, Malvina Silvestri1, Enrica Marotta2, Gala Avvisati2, Pasquale Belviso2, Vito Romaniello1, Vito De Leo3, Eliana bellucci Sessa2, Teresa Caputo2 and Vittorio Longo3, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, (3)IDS Corporation, Roma, Italy
Efforts to Integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) to Provide Safe and Reliable Research Platforms (558173)
Michael C. Hatfield1, Peter W Webley2, Catherine F. Cahill1, Jessica Garron3 and Eyal Saiet II4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, Fairbanks, AK, United States
MAPPING SUBSURFACE TILE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS IN AGRICULTURAL FIELDS USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS)-BASED RADIOMETRIC THERMAL AND OPTICAL SENSORS (564680)
Tewodros Tilahun, Normal, Illinois, United States, Wondwosen M. Seyoum, Illinois State Univeristy, Normal, IL, United States and Jonathan B Thayn, Illinois State University, Geography Geology and the Enviroment, Normal, IL, United States
Development and integration of an electromagnetic induction system on an unmanned aircraft system for subsurface electrical conductivity mapping (566196)
Xiaobing Zhou1, Andrew Wilson2 and Quinn Powell1, (1)Montana Technological University, Geophysical Engineering, Butte, MT, United States, (2)Montana Technological University, Geophysical Engineering, Butte, United States
Unmanned Aerial Systems for Streamflow Estimation – Case Study of Obion River Near Rives, TN (567032)
Courtney Jackson1, Alfred J Kalyanapu2 and Guido Cervone1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States
Results from the Development and Deployment of a UAS for Volcanic Plume and Surface Observation (567291)
Jack Steward Elston1, Maciej Stachura1, Lois J Wardell2, David C Pieri3 and Alison Nugent4, (1)Black Swift Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)KBRwyle Air Force Division, Dayton OH, Dayton, OH, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Automated Identification of Shoreline Types in a Freshwater Environment Using ImageryCollected with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (585071)
Dominique Goyer, Triox Environmental Emergencies, Montréal, Canada, Alain Lamarche, Triox Environmental Emergencies, Montreal, Canada, Claude Codjia, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, Kosal Khun, UQAM, Montreal, Canada and Sonia Laforest, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Montreal, Canada
Pushing the boundaries – Beyond Visual Line of Sight in the National Airspace System (605335)
Peter W Webley1, Gregory Foscue1,2, Catherine F. Cahill1 and James Parrish1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Unmanned Systems Alaska, Fairbanks, United States
