ChesapeakeView is a collaborative project of the AmericaView program. AmericaView (AV) is a nationwide program that focuses on satellite remote sensing data and technologies in...

Small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) are being increasingly utilized to support an array of applications including agriculture, natural resource management,...

Small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS, aka ‘drones’) are being increasingly employed to support an expanding array of applications and business needs. Natural resource...

This manual is intended to provide educators with a resource to support education and instruction in sUAS. The manual includes safety guidelines, a summary of regulations, and...

Grand Forks County, North Dakota, boasts the highest concentration of shelterbelts in the World. As trees age and reach their lifespan limits, renovations should have taken...

Accurately estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) is important in many applications, including monitoring carbon stocks, investigating deforestation and forest degradation, and...

Future weather and climates, especially rainfall, are expected to have larger variability in the Southern Plains of the United States. However, the degree and timing of...

Agricultural production in the Great Plains provides a significant amount of food for the United States while contributing greatly to farm income in the region. However,...

Devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 2016 and 2017 resulted in significant social, economic, and environmental losses, with the agricultural sector among...

Eddy covariance (EC) systems provide integrated fluxes within their footprint areas. Spatial heterogeneity of up-scaled areas and spatio-temporal mismatches between EC footprint...

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) uses geospatial science and technologies, human geography, as well as fundamental knowledge of statistics, mathematics and physics to solve real...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, are a revolutionary technology that are making it easier than ever to collect information from above the Earth’s surface. For...

With more people living in cities, we are witnessing a decline in exposure to nature. A growing body of research has demonstrated an association between nature contact and...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) have been found to be an effective data source for automated mapping of wetlands. However, it is unclear whether high spatial resolution DEMs,...

Despite the need for quality land cover information, large-area, high spatial resolution land cover mapping has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons including...

Excessive erosion and bank failure within river corridors pose a significant risk to infrastructure and natural systems and reliable characterization of bank erosion is a...

Achieving global sustainable agriculture is one of the most incredible challenges of this century, yet many continue to try to solve this problem through the development of...

Interest in mapping bathymetry from multispectral satellite imagery has grown steadily since the 1970s. Notwithstanding the significant advancements made during this time, one...

In anticipation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ICESat-2 mission, which will employ the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), a 532 nm...

NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) was launched in September, 2018. The satellite carries a single instrument, ATLAS (Advanced Topographic Laser...