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USGS | 2014
USGS ecology and biology researchers met with colleagues from the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to discuss interest by the State of Oregon in acquiring and using…
USGS | 2014
Stream-channel geomorphologic characteristics determine water flow dynamics and are important features to capture when performing physical habitat assessments. The USGS is using airborne lidar to…
USGS | 2014
The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program is collecting water, ecological, and sediment data from hundreds of sites across the country in support of Regional Stream Quality Assessments (…
USGS | 2014
The Lower Colorado River High Flow Experiment in Mexico is a collaborative monitoring project with teams of scientists from governments, universities, and non-profits on both sides of the border. The…
USGS | 2014
Water accounting is becoming critical globally, and balancing consumptive water demands with environmental water requirements is especially difficult in arid and semiarid regions. Within the Murray-…
USGS | 2014
To help assess the applications and value of Landsat imagery, social scientists at the USGS Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch of the Fort Collins Science Center in Colorado are leading a…
USGS | 2014
A Cooperative Agreement between the USGS National Geospatial Program and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources was established for acquisition and processing of lidar-derived elevation…
USGS | 2014
The USGS, working in partnership with the Federal interagency Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, has completed the production of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 for…
USGS | 2014
The Landsat Program is a joint effort of the USGS and NASA to use Earth-observing satellites to capture, process, and freely distribute land-surface image data. Landsat imagery enables users to…
USGS | 2014
Currently, no lidar coverage exists for the Tribal lands on the Colville Reservation, Washington. Any existing coverage in the area is outside of Colville Tribal managed lands. A project to…
USGS | 2014
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) provides critical data for many management and science applications. One example is the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA). The Landsat-…
USGS | 2014
Buffelgrass is a perennial grass that is invasive to the Sonoran Desert, where it threatens desert ecosystems by out-competing native plants and altering fire regimes. Buffelgrass forms a continuous…