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FWS | 2016
Each spring since 1987, FWS staff have conducted the Four-Square-Mile Breeding Waterfowl Survey across five states and two FWS regions in the Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains.…
FWS | 2016
Repeated collection of high spatial resolution satellite imagery over the entire Great Lakes coastal zone will allow resource managers to better understand, manage, and preserve the region’s…
FWS | 2016
High resolution multispectral imagery will be used for wetland delineation within 275,000 acres of wetlands in the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. There are important benefits of collecting…
FWS | 2016
At roughly 50,000 mi2, the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta forms a vast, flat expanse in western Alaska that is a critical northern breeding and staging habitat for migrating waterbirds and hosts more…
FWS | 2016
Two-dimensional imagery from satellites and airborne sensors has been an invaluable resource to the scientific understanding of ecosystems. With technologies such as lidar and Interferometric…
FWS | 2016
To facilitate the location of abandoned oil wells, orthomosaic images were created from historical aerial photos acquired in 1972 and 1969. Agisoft Photoscan was used to create camera calibration…
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…
FWS | 2013
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses avian radar along with multiple other methods to monitor bird and bat migration along the shorelines of the Great Lakes (http://www.fws.gov/radar/…
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…