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