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BOR | 2013
The Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group uses light detection and ranging (lidar) data in conjunction with river and reservoir bathymetric surveys to develop…
USGS | 2013
The increasing societal need for renewable energy from the agricultural sector offers new opportunities and challenges as we redefine ecosystem goods and services in view of sustainable land use and…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation routinely monitors more than 3.5 million acres of agriculture and riparian vegetation along the Lower Colorado River from Hoover Dam to the Southerly International Border. Data generated…
BOR | 2013
The San Joaquin River Restoration Program is a comprehensive long-term effort to restore flows to the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley from Friant Dam to the confluence of the Merced…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is responsible for administration of the Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) for the Newlands Reclamation Project, Nevada. Section 418.8 of OCAP directs Reclamation and the Truckee-…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is charged with measuring consumptive water use (water that is physically removed, either through export or evaporation) within the Upper Colorado River Basin. Irrigated agriculture…
USGS | 2013
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have produced a unique set of land cover projections for the conterminous United States based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios (…
USGS | 2013
The USGS WaterSMART (Water for Sustainable Management of America’s Resources for Tomorrow) Program aims to quantify the year-to-year variability of vegetation water use (consumptive use). WaterSMART…
USGS | 2013
The USGS EarthExplorer (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov) interface has been redesigned to support new functionality required for query, visualization, and distribution of Landsat 8 and other remote…
USGS | 2013
The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) through the Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City,…
USGS | 2013
As changes to ecosystems and the environment continue to occur in response to growing population pressure and natural processes, ways to measure and observe these changes on a regular basis will…
USGS | 2013
The USGS initiated the National Land Imaging Requirements (NLIR) Project as a collaborative effort between the USGS Land Remote Sensing Program, the USGS EROS Center, and National Oceanic and…