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This week marks another milestone for AggieAirTM, the UWRL remote sensing research unit that pioneered the development and use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs) for collecting and processing high-resolution, scientific grade imagery and other data. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the AggieAir program two of their largest Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COAs) to date. The FAA grants COAs to public operators for specific UAS activity only after extensive and comprehensive operational and technical review. These new COAs allow AggieAir open access to a vastly larger area than ever before. One COA covers the entirety of Cache Valley, from the Idaho border to Paradise (excluding urban and mountainous areas), and the second is just over the hill in Box Elder County, stretching from the Idaho border to the Great Salt Lake, both at an elevation of 3000 ft. above ground level (AGL).

Publisher

Utah State University

Publication Date

7-5-2018

Keywords

Utah Water Research Laboratory, UWRL, news

Disciplines

Hydrology

AggieAir is Extending its Wings

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Hydrology Commons

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