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USGS | 2012
Cover crops have been shown to be effective in reducing nutrient and sediment losses from farmland, and planting of winter cover crops is a critical agricultural conservation practice in the…
USGS | 2012
Understanding land use and cover change at the regional scale to inform adaptive management practices relies heavily on multi-scale remotely sensed imagery to supplement the USGS National Land Cover…
USGS | 2012
The USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center is conducting research to understand the effects of land cover change due to exploration and development of conventional and unconventional natural gas…
USGS | 2012
The greater Platte River Basins is an area that contains many fragile ecosystems that could be sensitive to changes in climate and land use. Geologic mapping of surficial deposits in the South…
USGS | 2012
USGS scientists have long used remote sensing imagery to map historical and current land cover. USGS land cover databases were used in an assessment of future potential landscape change. In support…
USGS | 2012
This research utilizes a combination of in situ and remote sensing technologies and algorithms to monitor the changing landscape of the Navajo Nation due to climatological influences. The Tribal land…
USGS | 2012
This project is in progress and will evaluate two methodologies and produce two distinct GIS-based vegetation databases for Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. One method employs traditional…
USGS | 2012
Federal public lands in the western United States are becoming increasingly surrounded by Gateway Communities. "Gateway Communities” are communities that are adjacent to or near Federal lands and…
USGS | 2012
A cooperative study between the NPS, USGS, and NASA has developed a toolset to distribute summarized MODIS land surface phenology data and to graphically display phenological patterns observed at…
USGS | 2012
Land use in areas near or adjacent to protected areas can influence the success of protected areas as a conservation method. The USGS Western Geographic Science Center developed a methodology to…
USGS | 2012
The USGS conducts national-scale mineral resource and geoenvironmental assessments to map and characterize mineral exposures related to mined and unmined hydrothermally altered rocks and mine waste…
USGS | 2012
In 2012 the Land Remote Sensing Program of the USGS continued its active participation with strategic international partners and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites to improve access to…