Field Activity 2018-064-FA

Identifier 2018-064-FA
Purpose The data was collected during a training flight of the FireFly Pro6. The goal was to practice a standard operating procedure for collecting aerial imagery from a fixed wing platform.
Location Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, MA
Summary Aerial imagery was collected by an unmanned aerial system (UAS) at Sage Lot Pond in Waquoit, MA July 20, 2018. This collection was acquired to explore the UAS potential for mapping marsh ecological systems, vegetation diversity, and creating high resolution elevation maps for use in carbon sequestration models. This was flown during training on the FireFly Pro6 UAS. 351 Ricoh GRII photos (2.04 GB) were collected along with 6 GCPs.
Info derived Aerial Imagery and ground control points used to orthorectify the photogrammetry products.
Comments This was flown during our FireFly training class using a Ricoh GRII and geotagged by the Bird’s eye view proprietary software in the field.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, MA 2018-07-20
End Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, MA 2018-07-20
Bounds
West -70.516272
East -70.501644
North 41.560404
South 41.550471

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Sandra M Brosnahan
Crew members
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Elizabeth P Pendleton
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Emily J Sturdivant
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Sandra M Brosnahan
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Photo, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3DR Solo factory Navigation (no data reported)
Ricoh GR II Photo 1
Aeropoint targets Navigation, Transects, Profiles 1

Datasets


Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2018_USGS_True_Color_Imagery Ricoh GR II True color aerial imagery collected during unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) operations in Massachusetts and Maine between March 2018 - September 2018. 11 separate zip file containing JPEG image for 8 separate field activities. Jennifer M Cramer
2018_USGS_Ground_Control_Points Aeropoint targets Ground control points collected during unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) operations in Massachusetts and Maine between March 2018 - September 2018. 8 separate CSV files for 8 separate field activities. Jennifer M Cramer

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity