UAVs, or drones, are an emerging technology for high-resolution aerial mapping and provide a powerful new tool for agriculture, forestry, and environmental monitoring throughout the growing season.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has awarded a $2.6 million contract to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden to conduct vegetation surveys in support of the statewide ...

An ecological analyst with ODNR works on the new interactive vegetation map of 18 th century Ohio. If you've been wondering what Ohio looked like, well, before it was a state, the Ohio Department of ...

In light of recent devastating wildfires in California, many public agencies, municipalities and landowners are actively pursuing new tools for vegetation management and fuel-load monitoring, ...

The USNVC is used by the USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) to assess and support the overall conservation status of wildlife. The habitats of common, unthreatened plants and animals have been ...

Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC), key for ecological studies, has historically been mapped at coarse resolutions. Recent high-resolution satellite data have increased the demand for finer FVC ...

Missing knowledge in the global distribution of plant traits could be filled with data from species identification apps. Researchers were able to demonstrate this based on data from the popular ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

Ecologists have developed powerful modelling tools to predict the distributions of individual species, especially those of conservation importance. Ecologists have developed powerful modelling tools ...