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NPS | 2017
Snow wetness and icing can affect ecosystem processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales including hydrology, carbon cycling, wildlife movement, and human transportation. Snow wetness occurs…
NPS | 2017
In 2010, a team of researchers at the University of Washington worked with the NPS to analyze the canopy structure across Crater Lake National Park using lidar data. The data were used to identify…
NPS | 2017
In spring 2017, Denali National Park consulted with the NPS Alaska Regional Office (AKRO) to develop a project for the documentation of the aging Kantishna Roadhouse, a building located near the end…
NPS | 2017
The NPS has partnered with Alaska Biological Research (ABR), Inc., to develop an Alaska-wide map that shows general patterns of snowmelt in the spring at a 30-m (Landsat) scale. This…
NPS | 2017
The NPS, Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN) is using 35-mm aerial photography to monitor the growth of permafrost thaw slumps in the five national parks of northern Alaska. These slumps…
NPS | 2017
The Everglades National Park (EVER) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY) vegetation mapping project is a component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). This is a cooperative…
USGS | 2017
Barrier islands are dynamic environments due to their position at the land-sea interface. Storms, waves, tides, currents, and relative sea-level rise are powerful forces that shape barrier island…
USGS | 2017
Marsh canopy structure indicators of leaf area index (LAI) and leaf angle distribution (LAD) were mapped yearly from 2009 to 2012 in the Barataria Bay, Louisiana, coastal region – an area severely…
USGS | 2017
The USGS has produced datasets that contain probabilities of hurricane-induced erosion for each 1-km section of the Gulf of Mexico coast in response to category 1–5 hurricanes. The analysis is based…
USGS | 2017
An automated shoreline identification method was developed using standard image processing, geographic information system (GIS) techniques (https://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/DSAS/version4…
USGS | 2017
Substantial loss of coastal wetland caused by the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was documented for the first time in recent publications (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL070624/…
USGS | 2017
Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes are environmental processes that modify the land surface and affect a broad range of socioeconomic, biologic, geologic, and hydrologic systems. The goals of…