Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS, also commonly referred to as drones, UAV or RPAS) are an emerging technology that is significantly expanding observational capabilities across the geosciences. The rapid development of these platforms (including multicopters, fixed-wing UAS, and tethered systems) combined with major advances in miniaturized payloads—spanning meteorological sensors, multispectral/hyperspectral cameras, and geophysical instruments—has led to a rapidly growing dataset that supports diverse scientific disciplines.
This session invites abstracts discussing scientific contributions using UAS across all fields of geosciences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Atmospheric and climate sciences: boundary-layer research, weather prediction, urban environment, and climate monitoring networks.
• Agricultural and environmental sciences: precision agriculture, soil characterization, hydrology, and ecology.
• Geophysics and volcanology: high-resolution drone-borne geophysical surveying (e.g., magnetometry, GPR, EMI), site zonation, and hazard monitoring.
We welcome presentations on the development of novel platforms and instrumentation, recent measurement efforts and field campaigns, data analysis and synthesis, and other scientific interpretations of UAS-based datasets to improve process understanding, numerical model prediction, and data assimilation.