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NPS | 2013
One of the key early steps in preparing for sea-level rise and storm surge is ensuring that the geodetic “backbone,” the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) benchmarks, have long-term viability and…
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…
NPS | 2013
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve (TIMU), Jacksonville, FL, contains thousands of acres of healthy and productive salt marsh. These salt marshes provide crucial habitat to a wide variety of…
NPS | 2013
The Alaska Shallow Lake Monitoring Program, part of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, monitors the water quantity and chemistry of shallow lakes along with the composition of the vegetation…
NPS | 2013
The 2010 lidar survey of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, penetrated forested terrain to reveal surface features of the ignimbrite (pyroclastic flow deposit) from the climactic caldera-forming…
NPS | 2013
NPS used high-resolution IKONOS satellite images and a combination of manual and computer-assisted methods to map slumps and small landslides caused by thaw of permafrost in Alaska's Arctic national…
NPS | 2013
Slumps caused by thaw of permafrost are common in Alaska's Arctic national parks. Slumps often occur near rivers or lakes and can shed significant amounts of sediment into the adjacent water body.…
NPS | 2013
On February 11, 2013, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SAMO) staff cheered when we saw rocket contrails from the launch of Landsat 8 a few miles north of the park. Barely 3 months…
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,…