| Identifier | 2024-020-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | Darby UAS Mapping August 2024 | ||||||||
| Purpose | sUAS flights at the Darby Creek landfill in Pennsylvania will support ecological restoration monitoring and environmental assessment. Aerial imagery will be used to quantify and classify vegetation growth over time, evaluate landscape elevation changes to assess cap stability and erosion, and collect thermal data to identify potential groundwater seepage areas. | ||||||||
| Location | Darby Township, Philadelphia, PA | ||||||||
| Summary | S. Brosnahan, J. Over, and S. Ackerman mapped the Clearview Landfill site. One lidar flight, three altum-PT flights, and 6 Skydio flights. 10 AeroPoints and vinyl targets were deployed. The SP80 base station was set up for the lidar flight, and the the SP80 rover was used to take check points. 35 vegetation quadrat surveys were completed. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Will be flying multiple sensors on the M600 including a LiDAR and multispectral sensor. The SkyDio will be used to collect thermal and normal RGB imagery and video. GCPs will be deployed and GPS used to collect elevation check points. Vegetation data will also be collected in random quadrats (% cover, type, and height) | ||||||||
| Comments | Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-006-FA. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
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| Principal investigators | Sandra M Brosnahan | ||||
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| Data category: | Visual Identification, Imagery, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Ground Truthing, Photo, Navigation, LIDAR |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Aeropoint targets | AeroPoint RTK-enabled targets were placed on the ground for georeferencing of processed spatial data products. | Navigation, Transects, Profiles | 2 |
| Spectra Precision SP80 | GPS equipment was used to survey ground-truth points and benchmark for data validation. | Navigation | 2 |
| Altum-PT | MicaSense Altum-PT was attached to DJI M600 drone to collect aerial multispectral imagery. | Photo | 1 |
| Skydio X10 | Skydio drone with integrated camera was used to collect RGB and thermal imagery. | Navigation, Other Imagery, Photo | 1 |
| YellowScan Mapper + | Lidar point clouds (LPC) and natural color (RGB) aerial images collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | Navigation, Photo, LIDAR | 2 |
| Reconnaissance | Ground Truthing | (no data expected) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| AeroPoint Targets | Aeropoint targets | GPS data collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | |
| SP80 RTK data | Spectra Precision SP80 | GPS data collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | |
| MicaSense Altum-PT Imagery | Altum-PT | Lidar point clouds (LPC), elevation models, GPS data, image mosaics, and aerial images from thermal infra-red (TIR), natural color (RGB), and multispectral cameras collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | |
| Skydio Imagery | Skydio X10 | image mosaics, and aerial images from thermal infra-red (TIR) and natural color (RGB) cameras collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | |
| YSMP Data | YellowScan Mapper + | Lidar point clouds (LPC), elevation models and aerial images collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024. |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2024020FA_Darby_Aug2024 | Aeropoint targets | Lidar point clouds (LPC), elevation models, GPS data, image mosaics, and aerial images from thermal infra-red (TIR), natural color (RGB), and multispectral cameras collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | Jennifer M Cramer |
| 2024020FA_Darby_Aug2024 | Spectra Precision SP80 | Lidar point clouds (LPC), elevation models, GPS data, image mosaics, and aerial images from thermal infra-red (TIR), natural color (RGB), and multispectral cameras collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | Jennifer M Cramer |
| 2024020FA_Darby_Aug2024 | YellowScan Mapper + | Lidar point clouds (LPC), elevation models, GPS data, image mosaics, and aerial images from thermal infra-red (TIR), natural color (RGB), and multispectral cameras collected during UAS operations at Lower Darby Creek, Darby Township, Pennsylvania, August 14, 2024 | Jennifer M Cramer |
10512 images are associated with this activity.
