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cover — Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2018 1.00 MB

**Drones for the Geosciences: A New Eye in the Sky**
— *Matthew Zimmerer*

Studies of planet Earth are best done using a wide variety of tools because geologic processes occur at all scales. For example, satellites and seismometers are used to study Earth at the global scale, whereas microscopes and mass spectrometers are used to study Earth at the crystal and atomic scales. Earth science discoveries often correlate with technological advances in the tools used to record observations and make measurements. In some cases, these advances allow scientists to detect what was previously unknown. One such tool, which is just starting to revolutionize the study of planet Earth, is unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), more commonly known as drones