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
Collected lidar and RBG data with Wingtra drone and multispectral data with the Altum-PT on the M600. A general vegetation survey was also performed, along with a more specialized tree survey. GNSS data was taken using the Emlid.
Info derived
Will be flying multiple sensors on the M600 including a LiDAR and multispectral sensor. We will also be flying a Wingta Lidar UAS. 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). Summer data collections will add multispectral imagery collection with our MicaSense Altum camera for vegetation analysis.
Comments
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-006-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-020-FA.
Jen Cramer, Amit Millo, Sandy Brosnahan, Seth Ackerman, and Jin-Si Over traveled to Philadelphia to collect UAS imagery and data over the Clearview landfill as part of an ongoing project with the EPA. Datasets include Lidar, RGB imagery, and GPS data.
2025-08-04
2025-08-08
Jen Cramer, Amit Millo, and Sandy Brosnahan will be traveling to Darby Creek to collect repeat UAS imagery and data over the Clearview Landfill for an ongoing project with the EPA. Datasets will include lidar, natural color imagery, multispectral imagery, and GPS data.
