equipment overview

UAV flight platforms
  • Applied Aeronautics v2 Alabatross inverted V fixed-wing (w/ LiDAR-Lite v3)
  • DJI m600 hexacopter w/ A3 Pro and upgraded batteries
  • 3DR Solo quadcopter w/ gimbal and dual-camera bay
  • 3DR Solo quadcopter w/ Micasense mount
  • Precision Hawk Rev IV fixed-wing
  • 3DR Aero-M fixed-wing w/ LiDAR-Lite v3

Ground stations
  • Applied Aeronautics custom tablet base station
  • Macbook Pro
  • iPad w/ ground station apps (Maps Made Easy preferred for DJI m600)

UAV sensors
  • Headwall Photonics Nano-hyperspectral sensor (270 VNIR spectral bands)
  • Phoenix LiDAR Scout w/ upgraded IMU (STIM 300)
  • Precision Hawk LiDAR VLP-16 w/ tactical-grade IMU (post-processing via cloud required)
  • Micasense RedEdge 3 multispectral camera
  • MAPIR v2 NDVI and RGB cameras
  • GoPro 4 Black (RGB)
  • Sony a6000 RGB camera (18 MP) for Precision Hawk platform

GNSS systems
  • Base station x900S w/ tripod
  • 2x single frequency differential GNSS ()

Tracking systems
  • Satellite tracker
  • Marshall radio tracker
  • Marshall GPS + radio tracker

Hardware (PC)
  • Dell workstation w/ 256 GB RAM, 8 TB Raid drive, dual CPUs w/ 32 processors (liquid cooled)
  • 40 TB Raid external drive w/ cloud backup

Software (remote sensing)
  • ENVI + IDL
  • ENVI LiDAR
  • ENVI Acorn atmospheric correction
  • ERDAS Imagine
  • ArcGIS + extensions
  • Phoenix LiDAR software suite (perpetual license)
  • Agisoft Photoscan *
  • Pix4Dmapper Pro
  • QT Modeller *
  • Inertial Explorer *
  • eCognition *

Software (sensors)
  • HOBOware Pro
  • Wildlife Acoustics Songscope
  • Campbell Scientific Loggernet Pro

Soundscapes
  • 3x Wildlife Acoustics SM3 w/ Garmin GPS and aluminum protective case
  • 1x PR recorder

Camera traps
  • 20+ Aggresor No-glow
  • 4 Reconyx P900

Water quality
  • Hanna 9828 GPS enabled Multiparameter

Gas flux
  • LiCOR 6400XT
  • LiCOR 6400 leaf light and temperature control cuvette
  • LiCOR 6400 soil gas exchange adaptor
  • 20x soil gas collars
  • Gas sampler system

Microclimate
  • 2x CR1000 data loggers
  • 1x weather protective case (Campbell Scientific)
  • 8x PAR sensors
  • 4x HOBO temp/rH sensors

Tower sensors
  • Phenocam infrared camera network enabled