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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…
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…
USGS | 2013
Quantitative high-resolution coastal elevation information is required to build integrated topobathymetric elevation models, inventory wetland and agricultural land resources, and identify flood,…
USGS | 2013
USGS scientists, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), have developed forecasts of the number of large fires to expect in specific geographic regions. The weekly forecasts of the…
USGS | 2013
The Landsat Program is a joint effort of the USGS and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to gather Earth resource data using a series of land-observing satellites. Whereas NASA’…
USGS | 2013
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Terrestrial Essential Climate Variable (ECV) named "Lakes," defined by the global climate research community (http://gosic.org/content/gcos-terrestrial-ecv-…
USGS | 2013
A newly finalized Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement developed among the Federal Government, Tribes, States, and water users provides solutions to contentious water issues affecting the…