On a clear spring morning along the Mississippi coast, Scott Rush, a scientist in Mississippi State University’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center, ascends over an open savannah in a specialized ...

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 30, 2024, Section D, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World.

Laird said the team can provide detailed orthomosaic maps and high-resolution 4K video and imagery of impeded roads and damaged terrain to the larger USACE team within 24 hours of collecting the data.