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BLM | 2016
Assessment Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) methods are used to monitor landscape condition and trends across many BLM-managed lands. However, the derived fractional cover estimates, which are used to…
BLM | 2016
The Cascades Field Office in the Salem District BLM in Oregon has embraced the the power of light detection and ranging (lidar) data for creating 3D visualizations of timber, recreation, and other…
BLM | 2016
The national-scale BLM Forest Vegetation Information System (FORVIS) provides data about forest attributes and associated land management activities to inform vegetation inventory and monitoring…
BLM | 2016
Native woody juniper shrubs (Juniperus spp.) are expanding beyond their normal historical ranges as a result of wildfire suppression, prolonged drought, and reduced demand for juniper products such…
BLM | 2016
The BLM uses an array of remote sensing technologies to support resource management. The BLM National Operations Center (NOC) is currently employing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and spaceborne high-…
BLM | 2016
During analysis of potential impacts to cultural resources as a result of extraction activities at the Meeteetse Draw Bentonite Mine in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin, concerns of indirect impacts to…
BLM | 2016
The National Operations Center (NOC) provides remotely sensed geospatial data products to support fire management officials conducting Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR) activities on…
BLM | 2016
The BLM has increasingly used an emergent computing platform known as Google Earth Engine (GEE) to harness remote sensing data for resource management. GEE provides a development environment that…
BLM | 2016
The BLM National Operations Center (NOC) is using multi-date aerial photography and remotely sensed imagery to delineate recent and historical river channel extents and gradients of the Red River (…
FWS | 2016
In 2009, the Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV) launched an ambitious, large-scale satellite telemetry study of sea ducks in the Atlantic Flyway. Target species include black scoter,…
FWS | 2016
Documenting bird and bat migration is challenging because migration activity is typically sporadic in nature and nocturnal movements are difficult to observe. The FWS uses avian radar to monitor the…
FWS | 2016
FWS researchers investigated whether the recent, unprecedented scale of sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation in the American West has had beneficial effects on other sagebrush-…