UAS
Taking Research with Drones to New Heights
NC State alum and current doctoral student Will Reckling is putting drones to work in new and unique ways to monitor the environment––from finding rare plants on the tops of mountains to mapping harmful algal blooms and even collecting water samples.
UAVs and Christmas Trees: New Research to Help NC Growers Benefit From Drone Technology
A new partnership between NC State’s Christmas Tree Extension Team and Center for Geospatial Analytics will test how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) can help NC Christmas tree growers more efficiently monitor tree size and health.
Student Travel: Delving into Precision Agriculture at AGU
At the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Kellyn Montgomery presented her latest research examining predictors of crop yield with drone imagery of agricultural fields.