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USGS | 2011
Current climate predictions indicate that high northern latitude ecosystems will experience significant change over the next century and beyond. USGS scientists developed an approach for…
USGS | 2011
The USGS LandCarbon program, is using MERIS 1km Chlorophyll and total suspended sediment estimates to determine the impact of sediment discharge on settling and burial of anthropogenic carbon on the…
USGS | 2011
USGS scientists, in partnership with USAID, developed forecasts of drought conditions and supported the United Nations famine declaration for southern Somalia. Parts of eastern Africa,…
USGS | 2011
Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data were acquired over a portion of the Yukon Flats in Alaska to map the three-dimensional distribution of permafrost to depths of approximately 100m. Images of…
USGS | 2011
The USGS is using remote sensing technology as part of a field-to-sky approach for integrated monitoring and assessment of wetland-upland landscapes across the United States and Canada. This…
USGS | 2011
More than 50 years ago, as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), nine Alaskan glaciers were photographed and mapped at a 1:10,000 scale by the American Geographical Society (AGS) to: “…
USGS | 2011
Arctic sea ice, the vital habitat of polar bears, has undergone basin-wide reductions in extent and thickness over the past few decades. Indices used to delineate pan-Arctic polar bear habitat…
USGS | 2011
The USGS, working in partnership with the interagency Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium, completed a new version of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD). NLCD 2006 is a land…
USGS | 2011
The Cold Regions Lake and Landscape Research at the Alaska Science Center studies the Arctic and Subarctic landscape. The primary objective is to understand landscape change in the recent (50 years)…
USGS | 2011
In the late-summer of 2010 and 2011, high-resolution color infrared aerial photography was collected covering the 2.75 million acre Upper Mississippi River System, including the full length of the…
USGS | 2011
In 2011, the USGS worked closely with ecologists from NPS and NatureServe to produce detailed vegetation datasets and mapping products for the NPS Vegetation Inventory Program. The NPS uses these…