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USGS | 2015
Essential climate variables (ECVs) are used to track critical attributes of atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial systems over time scales appropriate for analyzing their relationships with climate…
NPS | 2015
In September 2014, Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway partnered with the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) National Elk Refuge to collect high-resolution light…
NPS | 2015
As part of the ongoing effort to collect lidar coverage across the entire Shenandoah National Park, the NPS worked with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program liaison to…
NPS | 2015
The NPS is using WorldView-2 high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor coastal change in Alaska's arctic national parks with the help of cooperators at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (…
NPS | 2015
The GIS Team conducted a comprehensive update and densification of interior National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) data features for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GLBA). The editing protocol…
NPS | 2015
As part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), this project is mapping vegetation comunities in Everglades National Park and parts of Big Cypress National Preserve via collaboration…
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…