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USGS | 2021
This project is generating new remote sensing methods for DOI use and across the globe. Recently published research introduced the Augmented Normalized Difference Water Index (ANDWI), which employs…
USGS | 2021
California’s croplands cover roughly 3.8 million hectares (ha) with crop products valued at $33 billion USD according to the UDSA’s 2017 Census of Agriculture. Because of the value of these areas,…
USGS | 2021
Conventional, field-based streamflow monitoring in remote, inaccessible locations such as Alaska poses logistical challenges and make remote sensing an appealing alternative means of collecting…
USGS | 2021
The intersection of land use, water use, water availability, and climate change demands attention as resource constraints increasingly threaten human health and welfare. Long-term analyses of…
USGS | 2021
Approximately 2 billion people are expected to experience diminished water supplies because of seasonal snowpack decline this century. Over the last 50 years, particularly in some regions of…
USGS | 2021
The U.S. portion of the Lower Colorado River between Hoover and Morelos Dams has a critically important riparian ecosystem that is used by avian species as one of the only north-south flyways in this…
USGS | 2021
USGS researchers in the Water Resources Mission Area are partnering with NASA and the University of Southern California (USC) to measure stream surface velocity using a spectrum of sensors and edge-…
USGS | 2021
Post-fire shifts in vegetation composition or successional trajectory will have broad impacts for carbon storage, hydrology, nutrient cycling, and wildlife habitat. However, information…
USGS | 2021
This project uses aerial imagery collected with Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS, or “drones”) to assess and monitor vegetation at contaminated wetlands and neighboring lands being remediated and…
USGS | 2021
The National Map Corps (TNMCorps), a crowdsourced mapping project, relies on volunteers to assist the USGS National Geospatial Program by collecting and editing man-made structures data for The…
USGS | 2021
In cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, instructional media was created for the transfer of remote sensing mapping and GIS technologies used to create and implement the…
USGS | 2021
The USGS Volcano Hazards Program and USGS Land Change Science Program are partnering with NASA Ames, industry entities, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to measure gases with small Uncrewed…