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USGS | 2016
The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is producing a seamless vegetation map of Great Smoky Mountains (GRSM) National Park. The UMESC has been conducting vegetation…
USGS | 2016
The typical assessment of vegetation condition focuses on the relative proportion of living and dead material, which provides no information on the key element of vegetation structure (i.e., density…
USGS | 2016
Land surface phenology is a crucial link between climate and natural resources. The Department of Interior (DOI) North Central Climate Science Center (NC CSC) has partnered with the AmericaView…
USGS | 2016
The Wildland Fuels Research project at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center seeks to develop novel applications of remotely sensed data to better quantify and map wildland fuels in…
USGS | 2016
In the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the use of winter cover crops on agricultural land has been identified as a priority conservation practice for improving soil health and reducing the loss of…
USGS | 2016
Shrub and grassland ecosystems in the western United States are especially prone to fire events, yet available data for assessing fire risk in these areas are inadequate. Part of the difficulty…
USGS | 2016
The coastal marsh within Barataria Bay on the western side of the Mississippi River Delta was heavily impacted by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR)…
USGS | 2016
On the San Carlos Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona, vegetation types such as ponderosa pine forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and grasslands have important ecological, cultural, and…
USGS | 2016
In March 2011, USGS and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologists conducted a pilot project designed to estimate the abundance of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) at one roost at the Monte…
USGS | 2016
Little is known about the movements, habitat use, and causes of mortality of common loons during their first few years. To address this knowledge gap, scientists with the USGS Upper Midwest…
USGS | 2016
Millions of landbirds migrate through the Gulf of Mexico region each spring and autumn. Migration is energetically taxing, and these migrants depend on stopover habitats to provide the food and cover…
USGS | 2016
To facilitate the recovery of federally endangered wolves (Canis lupus), it is critical to learn as much as possible about their behavior and habitat use. The direct study of wolves is difficult,…