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BLM | 2013
Wyoming’s high desert riparian areas cover less than 1% of the landscape but account for up to 20% of forage. Livestock spend disproportionate time in these areas, inflicting disproportionate…
BLM | 2013
A remote sensing project in cooperation with Northern Arizona University and the BLM detects newly created networks from illegal human activities: vehicular routes, human trails, and accumulations of…
BOR | 2013
The Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group uses light detection and ranging (lidar) data in conjunction with river and reservoir bathymetric surveys to develop…
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…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation routinely monitors more than 3.5 million acres of agriculture and riparian vegetation along the Lower Colorado River from Hoover Dam to the Southerly International Border. Data generated…
BOR | 2013
The San Joaquin River Restoration Program is a comprehensive long-term effort to restore flows to the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley from Friant Dam to the confluence of the Merced…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is responsible for administration of the Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) for the Newlands Reclamation Project, Nevada. Section 418.8 of OCAP directs Reclamation and the Truckee-…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is charged with measuring consumptive water use (water that is physically removed, either through export or evaporation) within the Upper Colorado River Basin. Irrigated agriculture…
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,…