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USGS | 2020
A vital aspect of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fire management is to conduct fuels treatments that maintain habitat for wildlife, reduce the risk of large wildfires and maintain viewsheds. The…
USGS | 2020
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has supported Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams since 2001 by providing satellite image-derived burn severity products. BAER…
USGS | 2020
The USGS Fire Danger Forecast Program develops daily depictions of the potential for large wildfire occurrence based on vegetation and weather conditions for the conterminous U.S. Several products…
USGS | 2020
Historical quantification of invasive grass cover in the Great Basin provides a spatiotemporal 30-meter resolution data cube that can be mined for the environmental envelopes associated with…
USGS | 2020
Invasive annual grass is problematic in much of the Great Basin and surrounding areas. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is by far the most pervasive of these grasses. It outcompetes native plants…
USGS | 2020
The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is leading a study to construct, deploy, and evaluate an underwater Acoustic Deterrent System (uADS) at Lock and Dam 19 (LD19) near Keokuk…
USGS | 2020
A previous study (https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171098) demonstrated that satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) could detect Phragmites australis (marsh grass) dieback caused…
USGS | 2020
Mountain glacier mass change affects water resources, regional ecosystems and global sea level. Understanding the physical processes that control glacier mass change requires field measurements of…
USGS | 2020
Nearly two years ago, the USGS project Patterns in the Landscape–Analyses of Cause and Effect (PLACE) adapted the USGS Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) model to generate monthly maps across the…
USGS | 2020
Fountain Creek, a tributary to the Arkansas River, is located along the Colorado Front Range. Over the last 100 years, considerable changes in land use and water use have occurred within the Fountain…
USGS | 2020
The mapping and monitoring of land use and land cover (LULC) is invaluable for interdisciplinary studies assessing impacts of LULC change on hydrology, climate and regional weather, biodiversity, and…
USGS | 2020
Alterations to river flow can impact natural and cultural resources within river valleys and riparian zones. The USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center and the River Ecosystems Science…