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FWS | 2015
The FWS, Midwest Region has begun an evaluation program to understand the utility of a 4-camera strip video sampling system for migratory bird counts. The camera, although now outdated and no longer…
FWS | 2015
In 2014, a 220,000-acre fire burned within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. To assess the impact of the fire, new high-resolution orhophotography and elevation data were desired for at…
FWS | 2015
Large river ecosystems are an important functional part of the landscape in the southeastern United States. The extent and condition of large river floodplains greatly affect the quality of fish and…
FWS | 2015
The Water Resources Division of the Region 6 FWS generated elevation data for the creation of a storage-capacity curve for MacFarlane Reservoir, which supplies water to the Arapaho National Wildlife…
FWS | 2015
When railway tracks are located close to wetlands, rivers, or lakes, dynamic water level changes can have substantial economic and environmental impacts on railroad operations. For example,…
USGS | 2015
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center is directly involved in all current and planned National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) missions to Mars. This…
USGS | 2015
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center provides cartographic software and other support to both the Dawn and New Horizons missions exploring the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, respectively. This…
USGS | 2015
Permanently shadowed craters near the poles of the Moon may contain substantial ice deposits. The USGS is supporting the search for this ice by producing high precision cartographic products from…
USGS | 2015
The latest edition of the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2011) for Alaska was released in 2015. For Alaska, this database is designed to provide 10-year cyclical updating of the State's land cover…
USGS | 2015
Remote sensing glacier mapping approaches have typically required a substantial time investment from image analysts to select appropriate cloud-free scenes, set threshold values for image…
USGS | 2015
In 2015, NASA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the USGS released a collection of higher resolution (i.e., more detailed) elevation datasets for most of the globe. The broad…
USGS | 2015
Until recently, Landsat imagery has not been commonly used to investigate the link between long-term climate trends, extreme weather events, and vegetation response, in part because of the on-site…