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BLM | 2016
During analysis of potential impacts to cultural resources as a result of extraction activities at the Meeteetse Draw Bentonite Mine in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin, concerns of indirect impacts to…
BLM | 2016
The National Operations Center (NOC) provides remotely sensed geospatial data products to support fire management officials conducting Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR) activities on…
BLM | 2016
The BLM has increasingly used an emergent computing platform known as Google Earth Engine (GEE) to harness remote sensing data for resource management. GEE provides a development environment that…
BLM | 2016
The BLM National Operations Center (NOC) is using multi-date aerial photography and remotely sensed imagery to delineate recent and historical river channel extents and gradients of the Red River (…
FWS | 2016
In 2009, the Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV) launched an ambitious, large-scale satellite telemetry study of sea ducks in the Atlantic Flyway. Target species include black scoter,…
FWS | 2016
Documenting bird and bat migration is challenging because migration activity is typically sporadic in nature and nocturnal movements are difficult to observe. The FWS uses avian radar to monitor the…
FWS | 2016
FWS researchers investigated whether the recent, unprecedented scale of sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation in the American West has had beneficial effects on other sagebrush-…
FWS | 2016
FWS Region 3 Aviation Program, FWS Division of Migratory Bird Management, FWS National Aviation Management Branch, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory, USGS…
FWS | 2016
Lidar data are being leveraged to characterize avian nesting sites. Forty counties having USGS Quality Level 2 lidar data in eastern North Carolina (240.5 billion points) were processed to extract…
FWS | 2016
The 48,000-ha Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) was established in 1985 for the re-introduction of the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) to…
FWS | 2016
Each spring since 1987, FWS staff have conducted the Four-Square-Mile Breeding Waterfowl Survey across five states and two FWS regions in the Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains.…
FWS | 2016
Repeated collection of high spatial resolution satellite imagery over the entire Great Lakes coastal zone will allow resource managers to better understand, manage, and preserve the region’s…