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USGS | 2017
The USGS, working in partnership with the Federal interagency Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, is developing the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016. NLCD serves as the…
USGS | 2017
The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory utilizes oblique and vertical aerial photography to monitor topographic changes at Mount St. Helens volcano. Annual photogrammetry surveys are conducted to…
USGS | 2017
Climate variability and ballooning populations are putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural croplands and their water use, which are vital for ensuring global food and water security in the…
USGS | 2017
One measure of a society’s security is access to food, which is produced by a functioning, viable agricultural system that has access to sufficient water. An important metric to monitor for…
USGS | 2017
In the Chesapeake Bay region, conservation tillage is an important best management practice that is often emphasized in watershed implementation plans designed to meet water-quality objectives.…
USGS | 2017
Watershed restoration efforts have been made to rejuvenate vegetation, biological diversity, and land productivity at Cienega San Bernardino, an important wetland in southeastern Arizona and northern…
USGS | 2017
The development of lidar as a tool for quantifying forest structure offers new solutions to longstanding challenges of measuring wildlife habitat. For example, wildlife biologists need to predict and…
USGS | 2017
Remote-sensing-based maps of tidal marshes, both of their extents and carbon stocks, have the potential to play a key role in informing greenhouse gas inventories and implementing climate mitigation…
USGS | 2017
The USGS, in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is producing the most comprehensive remote-sensing-based quantification of western U.S. shrublands to date. Nine individual…
USGS | 2017
High-resolution aerial imagery was collected at Palmyra Atoll in October 2016. Collected data include color imagery for all islets at 3.7-cm resolution, multi-band imagery for most islets at 6.5-cm…
USGS | 2017
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Species Status Assessment is currently underway for the monarch butterfly in response to a petition to list the species under the Endangered Species Act. …
USGS | 2017
Using aerial radio-tracking of wolves (Canis lupus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the east-central Superior National Forest (northeastern Minnesota), this study examines the…