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USGS | 2021
Waterfowl rely on continent-wide wetland networks supporting migratory pathways that connect important breeding and wintering grounds. Globally, 30 to 90% of these networks are threatened or have…
USGS | 2021
Waterfowl populations within California's Central Valley are unusual among most North American waterfowl populations in that the region contains both resident and migratory populations of several…
USGS | 2021
The USGS, in collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute, is advancing the…
USGS | 2021
California’s oceanic waters provide habitat for numerous migratory, resident, and breeding species of seabirds and marine mammals. Recent technological advances have made offshore wind energy…
USGS | 2021
The Delaware River Basin is an important water resource for Philadelphia and other cities in the region. It was chosen to demonstrate USGS’s model integration efforts to investigate the relationships…
USGS | 2021
This project is generating new remote sensing methods for DOI use and across the globe. Recently published research introduced the Augmented Normalized Difference Water Index (ANDWI), which employs…
USGS | 2021
California’s croplands cover roughly 3.8 million hectares (ha) with crop products valued at $33 billion USD according to the UDSA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture. Because of the value of these areas,…
USGS | 2021
Conventional, field-based streamflow monitoring in remote, inaccessible locations such as Alaska poses logistical challenges and make remote sensing an appealing alternative means of collecting…
USGS | 2021
The intersection of land use, water use, water availability, and climate change demands attention as resource constraints increasingly threaten human health and welfare. Long-term analyses of…
USGS | 2021
Approximately 2 billion people are expected to experience diminished water supplies because of seasonal snowpack decline this century. Over the last 50 years, particularly in some regions of…
USGS | 2021
The U.S. portion of the Lower Colorado River between Hoover and Morelos Dams has a critically important riparian ecosystem that is used by avian species as one of the only north-south flyways in this…
USGS | 2021
USGS researchers in the Water Resources Mission Area are partnering with NASA and the University of Southern California (USC) to measure stream surface velocity using a spectrum of sensors and edge-…