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NPS | 2012
The National Park Service (NPS) Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN) is concerned with understanding widespread ecological changes in the northern Alaskan national parks. Repeat…
NPS | 2012
The lowlands of the NPS ARCN, like much of the arctic and subarctic, have extensive areas of lakes and ponds. According to the National Hydrography Dataset (USGS NHD 2012) there are approximately 1,…
NPS | 2012
The Alaska Shallow Lake Monitoring Program monitors the water quantity, water chemistry, littoral vegetation community composition, and macroinvertebrate communities of shallow lakes in the Arctic (…
NPS | 2012
The NPS along with other Federal and State agencies in Alaska are partnering in a multi-year multi-million-dollar mapping initiative to update topographic (elevation) information for the entire State…
NPS | 2012
Vegetation ecologists within the National Park Service Arctic and Southwest Alaska Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Networks, along with researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks…
NPS | 2012
Tidewater glaciers are a prominent feature along the southeastern and south-central coasts of Alaska and play an important role in landscape and ecosystem processes. Many tidewater glaciers calve…
NPS | 2012
The NPS Alaska Regional Office GIS team has been using the newest Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT) 5 satellite imagery to update hydrography features in the NHD within Denali National…
NPS | 2012
In 2012, GPS and GIS remote sensing technologies were vital tools used for resource management in Kenai Fjords National Park (KEFJ). As part of an ongoing glacier monitoring effort, KEFJ staff used…
NPS | 2012
The NPS Alaska regional compliance team frequently uses aerial photography and satellite imagery to convey resource conditions and locations to the public in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)…
NPS | 2012
Seagrass or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is a valuable and abundant resource found within the Gulf Islands National Seashore of Florida and Mississippi. Seagrass provides habitat for aquatic…
FWS | 2012
The golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo were listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFS) as endangered in 1990 and 1987, respectively. In 1992 the 10,000 hectare Balcones…
FWS | 2012
In an attempt to assess the viability of using legacy lidar data of varying collection density to characterize avian nesting habitat by species at a landscape scale, the existing lidar data from the…