…to continue to improve the reliability and accuracy of the aerial survey program.
Second to safety, quality assurance is a priority for discussion at annual meetings and the purpose of pre-season aerial survey workshops. Documents relating to quality assurance are made available and include: aerial survey standards and methods, ground check guidelines, accuracy assessment, considerations in using survey data.
A GUIDE TO CONDUCTING AERIAL SKETCHMAPPING SURVEYS – Planning, conducting, evaluating aerial surveys
AERIAL SURVEY STANDARDS
Describes damage types, defines information to collect for each, QA/QC activities, GIS and Reporting requirements
Post flight quality assurance is conducted to determine that damaged areas have been detected, reasonably located, properly sized and attributed. Ground check guidelines have evolved out of Aerial Survey Working Group Key Issues and Forest Health Monitoring Focus Group Resolutions helping to provide consistency and assisting field units in evaluating aerial survey results.
AERIAL SURVEY GROUND CHECK GUIDELINES – National guidelines and field data form
QUANTIFYING ERROR IN AERIAL SURVEY DATA – Rocky Mountain Region study (information only) does not represent quality assurance within national aerial survey program