Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge their institutions for their support, including the Virginia Tech Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation,  the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Germanna Community College, and Virginia Cooperative Extension.

This resource was developed under a relatively tight deadline in order to meet the needs of the pending academic semester. While we have burned the midnight oil to make the text ready and available for educational use, we also fully recognize that the text requires improvements in many areas.  Please consider this resource as a work in progress.

Major Contributors:

• John McGee served as the originator, co-author, and designer/publisher.
• Shawn Shields Lyons served as the co-author.
• Chérie Aukland served as the technical editor.
• Seth Peery designed and customized cloud processing solutions designed to provide educators with access to WebODM.
• Paige Williams served as a reviewer.

Additional educational resources are available from www.virginiaview.net (check out the Educational Resources section)

Other Contributors:

Support for this book was provided through the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program and VirginiaView (http://www.virginiaview.net/), through AmericaView, Inc. (www.americaview.org); the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (www.vsgc.org), through the Geospatial Technician Education for Aircraft Systems (GeoTEd-UAS) project (www.geoted-uas.org). This material is supported by NSF ATE DUE 2000715 and the U.S. Geological Survey under Grant/Cooperative Agreement No. G18AP00077.

The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Geological Survey.  Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey, the authors, or other partnering organziations.