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FWS | 2017
Vegetation structure raster layers developed from lidar data are used in a variety of resource management applications. The ongoing lidar analysis from the USGS QL2 data collected in North Carolina…
FWS | 2017
The Bill Williams River is a tributary to the lower Colorado River and maintains one of the few examples of naturally regenerating cottonwood-willow gallery forest in the region. Gallery forest…
FWS | 2017
Wildland fires are an important natural disturbance in semi-desert grasslands, but they can pose a threat to natural resource values and private property. Predicting the spread and intensity of fires…
FWS | 2017
Wildlife management agencies in North America have a long history of using aircraft to monitor population abundance of ducks, geese, swans, and other migratory birds. While low-level, ocular…
FWS | 2017
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and the FWS are collaborating to develop a multi-sensor, multi-frequency remote sensing approach to mapping and monitoring…
FWS | 2017
Monitoring the dynamic changes of glacial landscapes requires detailed topographic elevation data. In the late summer of 2016, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge collected 75-cm multispectral imagery…
FWS | 2017
As part of a larger Great Lakes Restoration Initiative - Remote Sensing project led by the FWS, Jim Klassen with SharedGeo automatically derived 2-m vegetation surface canopy digital elevation models…
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…
FWS | 2012
Vegetation mapping of the public access side of Desert National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) began in fiscal year 2011 and will be completed at the end of fiscal year 2012. The vegetation mapping is…
FWS | 2012
St. Matthew and Hall Islands are located within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge led a research cruise to these islands for the first time in over 5 years. While there,…
FWS | 2012
As part of a soils survey for the Rose Atoll, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Photo Science to collect lidar data for…