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BLM | 2015
The Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center (NOC) is leading efforts to collect very large scale aerial (VLSA) imagery in support of the agency’s natural resource programs. Using…
BLM | 2015
The Wyoming State BLM is using digital aerial imagery to identify cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in a portion of the greater sage-grouse core and connectivity areas in northeastern Wyoming. Cheatgrass…
BLM | 2015
Warming climate and chronically diminished snowpacks are straining water resources in the western United States. Properly functioning riparian systems slow runoff and store water, thus regulating…
BLM | 2015
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) leveraged multi-scale imagery to document and measure the impacts of the HX Dam failure in 2014. It is suspected that a 5.2 magnitude earthquake compromised the…
BLM | 2015
The existing in-house holdings of BLM Utah State Office vintage aerial photographic film acquired during 1966 for the Utah Photography for Resource Management (UPRM) project (10,300 images) was…
BLM | 2015
The BLM National Operations Center (NOC) is using multi-date aerial photography and remotely sensed imagery to delineate recent and historical water cover extents and gradients of the Red River (…
FWS | 2015
Documenting bird and bat migration is challenging because of the typically sporadic nature of migration activity and the difficulty of observing nocturnal movements. The FWS uses avian radar to…
FWS | 2015
This project is an expansion of original research completed by the Intermountain West Joint Venture (http://iwjv.org/) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - Sage Grouse Initiative…
FWS | 2015
Patterns of wetland availability and land use practice are examined within keystone migratory bird habitats in the Pacific flyway (southern Oregon and northeastern California). The results provide…
FWS | 2015
Monitoring the waterbird nesting population at Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, Nevada, is essential to detect and evaluate changes in waterbird…
FWS | 2015
Under certain circumstances, wildlife populations can be directly counted or inferred from satellite imagery. The first group to publish a population assessment from space-borne data was the…
FWS | 2015
The Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) once encompassed 10 million ha of floodplain forests, much of which has been converted to agriculture. Many conservation efforts in the MAV revolve around…