3 - Navigating Challenges, Exploring Possibilities: Building a Drone Program at the Colorado State Forest Service

Friday, September 20, 2024

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch A

Speaker(s)

Nic Kotlinski (he/him/his)

Geospatial Data and Analysis Program Manager
Colorado State University, United States
Ethan Bucholz, PhD

Forest Monitoring Program manager
Colorado State Forest Service

UAS offers opportunities to increase forest monitoring and measurement efficiency, however, significant capacity gaps exist for training managers to process and integrate these technologies into an applied agency. The CSFS aims to establish a program that increases our ability to serve Coloradoans with cutting-edge technology for our forests.