This work was funded by the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program of the California Energy Commission, Grant 500-09-035, to the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology at the University of Hawaii. We thank Juan Mercado, Joel McElroy, and board members of Reclamation District #341, for graciously enabling the field tests on Sherman Island. We thank John Hurl, Kathy Sharum, and Ryan Cooper of the Bureau of Land Management for Carrizo Plain access. We thank Sara Looney, David Phillips, and Chris Walls of UNAVCO for providing the high rate GNSS observations from the PBO GNSS stations and Dan Determan, Aris Aspiotes, and Keith Stark for providing the high rate GNSS observations from the USGS GNSS stations. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data was acquired at four sites – two on Sherman Island and two along the San Andreas Fault in order to evaluate the accuracy of the pointcloud from the multipurpose system (Figure 9). The scans were acquired with an approximately 1-cm point spacing at 25 m, using a RIEGL VZ-400. The TLS pointclouds were independently georeferenced to the same geodetic datum as the balloon LiDAR surveys with GNSS positioned retro-reflective targets. Post adjustment of the TLS data to the target points shows 1-2 cm RMS agreement, which gives an overall indication of the quality of the TLS observations. Carrizo Plain Compact Adaptable Mobile LiDAR System Deployment