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Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) natural color imagery and structure-from-motion data products collected at the Marsh-Felch Quarry in Garden Park Fossil Area, Colorado, July 2024

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2024-07-09
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Scholl, V.M., Burgess, M.A., Brady, L.R., Van Sistine, D.P., 2024, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) natural color imagery and structure-from-motion data products collected at the Marsh-Felch Quarry in Garden Park Fossil Area, Colorado, July 2024: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1RWAALH.

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Uncrewed Systems Office (NUSO) supported the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s Geoheritage Sites of the Nation Project in July of 2024 with the collection of UAS-based high-resolution imagery of the Marsh-Felch Quarry site at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Garden Park Fossil Area. One of the most complete dinosaur skeletons ever unearthed was found here. These discoveries around present-day Garden Park Fossil Area sparked the “Bone Wars” of the late 1800s and inspired the selection of Colorado's state fossil, the Stegosaurus. Three-dimensional (3D) scan flights were conducted at the fossil site using a Skydio X10 UAS, in which the aircraft autonomously determined where [...]

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Purpose

A 3D model of the Marsh-Felch Quarry in Garden Park Fossil Area presented in this data release will be featured in the the Geoheritage Sites of the Nation viewer web application to allow the public to remotely explore geologic sites of scientific, educational, cultural, economic, and aesthetic significance.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
Photo of Marsh-Felch quarry site
Photo of Marsh-Felch quarry site

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