Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, May 2021, v1

This dataset provides early estimates of 2021 exotic annual grasses (EAG) fractional cover predicted on May 3rd. We develop and release EAG fractional cover map with an emphasis on cheatgrass (Bromus tectrorum) but it also includes number of other species, i.e., Bromus arvensis L., Bromus briziformis, Bromus catharticus Vahl, Bromus commutatus, Bromus diandrus, Bromus hordeaceus L., Bromus japonicus, Bromus madritensis L., Bromus racemosus, Bromus rubens L., Bromus secalinus L., Bromus texensis (Shear) Hitchc., and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae. The dataset was generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring data (AIM) plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

5. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 6.0, July 1st, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2024

These datasets provide early estimates of 2024 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from April to late June. Typically, the EAG estimates are publicly released within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains five fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) Field Brome (Bromus arvensis); 4) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 5) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory,...

Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Field Brome, Great Basin, All tags... Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, Idaho, Kansas, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 1.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

USGS Rangeland Exotic Plant Monitoring System

The introduction of exotic plant species into the western United States has caused substantial changes to rangeland disturbance regimes and ecosystem structure and function. For example, exotic annual grass (EAG) invasion in western rangelands has increased wildfire frequency, which greatly reduces rangeland ecosystem diversity and leads to single-species dominance in many areas. Rangeland monocultures do not provide optimal carbon sequestration and other environmental processes necessary to sustain historically normal ecosystem structure, including the ecological diversity needed to support sagebrush obligates like Greater Sagegrouse, pygmy rabbit, and pronghorn. These obligates, as well as others, require contiguous,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bromus japonicus, Bromus tectorum, California (CA), Cheatgrass, Colorado (CO), All tags... Deserts, Great Basin, Idaho (ID), Montana (MT), Nevada (NV), Oregon (OR), Sagebrush ecosystem, Snake River, Taeniatherum caput-medusae, Utah (UT), Washington (WA), Wyoming (WY), annual grass, exotic species, invasive species; information management, noxious weeds, red brome, rye brome, sagebrush, satellite, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, July 2021, (ver 2.0, January 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2021 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and a native perennial grass predicted on July 1 using satellite observation data available no later than June 28th. Four fractional cover maps comprise this release, along with the corresponding confidence maps, for: 1) a group of 17 species of EAGs (i.e., Bromus arvensis L., Bromus briziformis, Bromus catharticus Vahl, Bromus commutatus, Bromus diandrus, Bromus hordeaceus L., Bromus hordeaceus spp. hordeaceus, Bromus japonicus, Bromus madritensis L., Bromus madritensis L. ssp. rubens (L.) Duvin, Bromus L., Bromus racemosus, Bromus rubens L., Bromus secalinus L., Bromus tectorum L., Bromus texensis (Shear) Hitchc.,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

3. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 4.0, June 3rd, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 2.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Herbaceous Annual Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (May 1, 2019)

The dataset provides a spatially explicit estimate of 2019 herbaceous annual percent cover predicted on May 1st with an emphasis on annual grasses. The estimate is based on the mean output of two regression-tree models. For one model, we include, as an independent variable amongst other independent variables, a dataset that is the mean of 17-years of annual herbaceous percent cover (https://doi.org/10.5066/F71J98QK). This model's test mean error rate (n = 1670), based on nine different randomizations, equals 4.9% with a standard deviation of +/- 0.15. A second model was developed that did not include the mean of 17-years of annual herbaceous percent cover, and this model's test mean error rate (n = 1670), based...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Bromus tectorum, California, Colorado, Desert, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Remote Sensing, Snake River Plain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, fire, geoscientificInformation, habitat, invasive, ndvi, sagebrush, satellite, Fewer tags

Fractional Estimates of Multiple Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) Species and Sandberg bluegrass in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2016 - 2022 (ver. 3.0, July 2023)

This dataset release provides historical (2016 - 2022) estimates of fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and a native perennial bunch grass in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of the western United States. The dataset includes four fractional cover maps per year, accompanied by corresponding confidence maps, for a group of 16 species of EAGs, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). The data were generated using a combination of field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) plots; remotely sensed data from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) product (specifically Normalized...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:61716970d34ea36449a77130, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial bunch grass, poa secunda, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 6.0, June 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

2. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 3.0, May 18th, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Predicted exotic annual grass abundance in rangelands of the western United States using various precipitation scenarios for 2022

Invasion of exotic annual grass (EAG), such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), red brome (Bromus rubens), and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), could have irreversible degradation impact to arid and semiarid rangeland ecosystems in the western United States. The distribution and abundance of these EAG species are highly influenced by weather variables such as temperature and precipitation. We set out to develop a machine learning modelling approach using a lightGBM algorithm to predict how changes in annual and immediate past precipitation regimes impact the abundance of EAG in the study area. The predictive model primarily utilized edaphic and weather variables and a seed source proxy from previous years to...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Land Use Change, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Remote Sensing, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, field brome, invasive species, japanese brome, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, precipitation, red brome, remote sensing, sagebrush, scenarios, soft brome, weather, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 5.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 7.0, June 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

A Time Series of Herbaceous Annual Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem

We integrated 250-m enhanced Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (eMODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with land cover, biogeophysical (e.g., soils, topography) and climate data into regression-tree software (Cubist®). We integrated this data to create a time series of spatially explicit predictions of herbaceous annual vegetation cover in sagebrush ecosystems, with an emphasis on annual grasses. Annual grass cover in sagebrush ecosystems is highly variable year-to-year because it is strongly dependent on highly variable weather patterns, particularly precipitation timing and totals. Annual grass cover also reflects past disturbances and management decisions. We produced 17 consecutive...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bromus tectorum, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Idaho, All tags... MODIS, Montana, NDVI, National Land Cover Database, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, PRISM, SageDAT-data, Sagebrush, Snake River Plain, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wyoming, annual grass, cheatgrass, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, elevation, environment, fire, geoscientificInformation, habitat, herbaceous annual cover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive, regression-tree model, remotely sensed data, satellite, spatially explicit, time series, Fewer tags

4. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 5.0, June 17th, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

1. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022, May 6th, 2022 (revised on May 17th, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 6.0, July 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data Release - Revised; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags