Purdue Wildlife Area "Green Up" Operation
Purdue Wildlife Area "Green Up" Operation This post is going to cover our final project for the course. The goal for this project was to show our capability to take UAS data and put it into the context of a Geographic Information System software package for further analysis and use. The overall objective of this assignment was for us to engage in start to finish UAS mapping project. We had to collect the data, create and orthomosaic and DSM, engage in analysis with ArcGIS Pro, create maps, and then generate a final report from the view of a GIS specialist. This post is going to be an overview of the final report that I created as a GIS specialist that was paid to do this type of work. UAS Mission Background: A group of researchers at Purdue Wildlife Area (PWA) are interested in quantifying what areas, and how fast, portions of a recently burned prairie plot ‘green up’ as we move from early to mid-spring. You have been asked to fly over this ...