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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 (…
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…