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ScienceCache was originally developed as a mobile device data collection application for a citizen science project. ScienceCache communicates with a centralized database that facilitates near-real-time use of collected data that enhances efficiency of data collection in the field. We improved ScienceCache by creating a flexible, reliable platform that reduces effort required to set up a survey and manage incoming data. Now, ScienceCache can be easily adapted for citizen science projects as well as restricted to specific users for private internal research. We improved scEdit, a web application interface, to allow for creation of more-complex data collection forms and survey routes to support scientific studies....
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The evaluation of historical water use in the Upper Rio Grande Basin (URGB), United States and Mexico, using Landsat-derived actual evapotranspiration (ETa) from 1986 to 2015 is presented here as the first study of its kind to apply satellite observations to quantify long-term, basin-wide crop consumptive use in a large basin. The rich archive of Landsat imagery combined with the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model was used to estimate and map ETa across the basin and over irrigated fields for historical characterization of water-use dynamics. Monthly ETa estimates were evaluated using six eddy-covariance (EC) flux towers showing strong correspondence (r2 > 0.80) with reasonable error rates...
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Tags: Landsat,
New Mexico,
SSEBop model,
Upper Rio Grande Basin,
actual evapotranspiration,
Additional documents pertaining to the Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP) Expert Panel meeting held on March 14, 2012 in Lakewood Colorado. This meeting was held to introduce potential panelists to the LEAP project and discuss their role in the development process. Documents include a list of meeting participants; a draft list of Conservation Elements to be included in the Wyoming pilot Landscape-scale Vulnerability Assessment (LVA), some of which will be addressed by Expert Panels; and a list of spatial data sets that have been collected by the Wyoming and R6 offices for possible use in the LVA or related analyses.
Working in partnership since 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Nisqually Indian Tribe have restored 902 acres of tidally influenced coastal marsh in the Nisqually River Delta (NRD), making it the largest estuary-restoration project in the Pacific Northwest to date. Marsh restoration increases the capacity of the estuary to support a diversity of wildlife species. Restoration also increases carbon (C) production of marsh plant communities that support food webs for wildlife and can help mitigate climate change through long-term C storage in marsh soils. In 2015, an interdisciplinary team of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers began to study the benefits of carbon for wetland wildlife and storage...
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Tags: Carbon balance,
Carbon stock,
Coastal marshes,
Nisqually River Delta,
Wildlife benefits
Presentation given at the Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP) Expert Panel meeting held on March 14, 2012 in Lakewood Colorado. This meeting was held to introduce potential panelists to the LEAP project and discuss their role in the development process.
Periodic newsletter for the USFWS Mountain-Prairie Region's Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP).
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Presentation from the Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP) End User Workshop held on March 13, 2012 in Lakewood Colorado. This meeting was held to solicit information from potential end users of LEAP (biologists, managers, project proponents), in order to better understand how LEAP tools can be built to meet their specific needs.
When the Earth experiences changes in its climate, wildlife respond by moving – species adjust their ranges to track changes in climate, moving out of areas that become too hot or otherwise inhospitable, and moving into areas that become newly hospitable. However, climate change is now proceeding so quickly that it is becoming difficult for species to move fast enough to keep pace. In addition, today’s landscapes feature significant barriers to movement presented by human land uses (e.g., roads, cities, farms). Such is the case in the region around the border of Washington and British Columbia, where increasing development pressure and limited coordination of land and wildlife management across the border pose a...
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Tags: Connectivity,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Landscapes,
Northwest CASC,
Other Landscapes,
This page provides access to the most current Gap Analysis Program fact sheets and brochure published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Periodic newsletter for the USFWS Mountain-Prairie Region's Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP).
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Additional documents pertaining to the Landscape-scale Energy Action Plan (LEAP) End User Workshop held on March 13, 2012 in Lakewood Colorado. This meeting was held to solicit information from potential end users of LEAP (biologists, managers, project proponents), in order to better understand how LEAP tools can be built to meet their specific needs. Documents include a list of meeting participants, and notes taken at the meeting.
The Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model uses the principle of satellite psychrometry to produce spatially explicit actual evapotranspiration (ETa) with remotely sensed and weather data. The temperature difference (dT) in the model is a predefined parameter quantifying the difference between surface temperature at bare soil and air temperature at canopy level. Because dT is derived from the average-sky net radiation based primarily on climate data, validation of the dT estimation is critical for assuring a high-quality ETa product. We used the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to evaluate the SSEBop dT estimation for the conterminous United States. MODIS data (2008–2017)...
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Tags: SSEBop ET,
dT,
land surface temperature,
temperature difference
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