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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 (…
BLM | 2011
Lidar and aerial photography are valuable tools for preliminary investigations by cadastral surveyors. Boundary disputes are often decided using survey information. Remote sensing data…
BLM | 2011
The Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework is sponsoring a working group tasked to evaluate the use of lidar-derived DEMs as a principal data source for updating the National Hydrology Database (NHD…
BLM | 2011
The Oregon BLM State Office developed a semi-automated technique to map juniper distribution for specific project areas. The technique uses 0.5 meter color infra-red NAIP imagery to identify…
BLM | 2011
The famous Laetoli footprints were made by a human ancestor 3.56 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Tanzania and are the earliest fossil evidence of bipedalism in our ancestors. The trail…
BLM | 2011
The revised Statue 2477 (RS2477) was enacted by Congress in 1866 to facilitate western settlement. It granted “the right-of-way for the construction of highways across public lands not…
BLM | 2011
BLM has issued a National sage grouse policy to ensure environmentally responsible exploration, authorization, leasing and development of energy resources within the range of the Gunnison sage-grouse…