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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…
USGS | 2017
The USGS is now partnering with Utah State University (USU) and the Department of the Environment in Nunavut (DEN) to investigate wolves’ (Canis lupus) movements and spacing in the high Arctic.…
USGS | 2017
An algorithm for the automated analysis of multispectral remote sensing data acquired by the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor has been developed that can efficiently identify surface…
USGS | 2017
Energy development in the western U.S. has increased substantially in recent decades, contributing to habitat fragmentation, dust emissions, and soil loss from erosion. Oil and gas well pads are…
USGS | 2017
High-resolution imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) was used to digitize the landscape disturbance related to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and other forms of…
USGS | 2017
LANDFIRE, the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Program, is a vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristic mapping program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest…
USGS | 2017
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…