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In the Arctic, climate is warming twice as fast as compared to the global average (known as \u2018Arctic amplification\u2019), likely having stronger impacts on arctic tundra vegetation. In order to quantify these changes and assess their impacts on ecosystem structure and function, methods are needed to accurately characterize the canopy properties of tundra vegetation types. However, commonly used ground-based measurements are limited in spatial and temporal coverage, and differentiating low-lying tundra plant species is challenging with coarse-resolution satellite remote sensing. The collection and processing of multi-sensor data from unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) has the potential to fill the gap between ground-based and satellite observations. To address the critical need for such data in the Arctic, we developed a cost-effective multi-sensor UAS (the \u2018Osprey\u2019) using off-the-shelf instrumentation. The Osprey simultaneously produces high-resolution optical, thermal, and structural images, as well as collecting point-based hyperspectral measurements, over vegetation canopies. In this paper, we describe the setup and deployment of the Osprey system in the Arctic to a tundra study site located in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. We present a case study demonstrating the processing and application of Osprey data products for characterizing the key biophysical properties of tundra vegetation canopies. In this study, plant functional types (PFTs) representative of arctic tundra ecosystems were mapped with an overall accuracy of 87.4%. The Osprey image products identified significant differences in canopy-scale greenness, canopy height, and surface temperature among PFTs, with deciduous low to tall shrubs having the lowest canopy temperatures while non-vascular lichens had the warmest. The analysis of our hyperspectral data showed that variation in the fractional cover of deciduous low to tall shrubs was effectively characterized by Osprey reflectance measurements across the range of visible to near-infrared wavelengths. Therefore, the development and deployment of the Osprey UAS, as a state-of-the-art methodology, has the potential to be widely used for characterizing tundra vegetation composition and canopy properties to improve our understanding of ecosystem dynamics in the Arctic, and to address scale issues between ground-based and airborne\/satellite observations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12162638","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,17]],"date-time":"2020-08-17T04:35:51Z","timestamp":1597638951000},"page":"2638","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["A Multi-Sensor Unoccupied Aerial System Improves Characterization of Vegetation Composition and Canopy Properties in the Arctic Tundra"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1705-7823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dedi","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"},{"name":"Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4756-9934","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ran","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"},{"name":"College of Natural Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bailey D.","family":"Morrison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"McMahon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wouter","family":"Hantson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3011-7934","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel J.","family":"Hayes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Amy L.","family":"Breen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2188-551X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Verity G.","family":"Salmon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4136-8971","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shawn P.","family":"Serbin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA"},{"name":"Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1355","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1173113","article-title":"Ecological dynamics across the Arctic associated with recent climate change","volume":"325","author":"Post","year":"2009","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"453","DOI":"10.1038\/nclimate1465","article-title":"Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming","volume":"2","author":"Elmendorf","year":"2012","journal-title":"Nat. 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