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Forest cover and land surface temperature (LST) around Maine's Penobscot River during Summer 2021. The shades of green distinguish between evergreen (dark) and deciduous (light) forest which were classified using Landsat 8 OLI imagery. The purple gradient corresponds to LST derived from Terra MODIS where the warmest areas, including Bangor, are white. Changing land use and warming temperatures along Maine’s rivers are associated with reducing juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) survivorship.

Utilizing Earth Observations to Monitor Federally Endangered Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar) Habitat in Maine: An Interactive Workshop 

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Ecological Conservation
Maine Ecological Forecasting III (Summer 2022) Team: Jonathan Falciani (Project Lead), Colin Hogan, Linda Mitchell, Makario Sarsozo Summary: Shifting patterns in land use and land...
2022 Spring CO Boulder County Disasters Website Image

Mapping Forest Carbon Stocks to Understand Carbon Implications of Treatments and Wildfire

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Disasters
Boulder County Disasters (Spring 2022) Team: Sarah Hettema (Project Lead), Jennifer Rogers, Ibuki Sugiura, Erin Twaddell Summary: In recent years, record-breaking wildfire activities in the...
Predicted cheatgrass green-up imagery from Landsat 8 OLI data. This composite image of the western portion of the Mullen Fire Study Area is from June 2022. Shades of green and yellow indicate an earlier green-up time, while orange, brown, and white areas show later predicted green-up times. This data was used to create NDVI difference maps which will help managers predict when and where to apply treatments to limit the spread of cheatgrass.

Improving Invasive Species Detection Mapping with Novel Phenology Approaches

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Ecological Conservation
Southern Wyoming Ecological Conservation II (Summer 2023) Team: Bryan Graybill (Project Lead), Lillian Gordon, Estelle Lindrooth, Sarah Sathe Summary: Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an invasive...
Annual max biomass calculated from 2021 daily Harmonized LandSat Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset. Dark purple colors show low biomass while the bright orange show high biomass. Regions with high vegetation and tree canopy cover are shown in orange on the left of the image. High biomass values are of an interest to rangeland managers to help inform their grazing decisions based on which areas of the ranch produce the most biomass/vegetation.

Rangeland Monitoring to Inform Grazing Management in Eastern Colorado

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Agriculture
Eastern Plains Agriculture (Fall 2022) Team: Jillian Joubert, Sarah Hettema, Deni Ranguelova, TR Ingram, Max Stewart Summary: Adaptive management on cattle ranches requires rangeland managers...

Employing NASA Earth Observations to Map Riparian Flooding in Guatemala and El Salvador

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Central America is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to natural disasters, including landslides and precipitation-driven flooding. In an effort to support disaster management...
Land use land cover unsupervised classification derived from Landsat 9 OLI-2 TOA imagery acquired in spring 2023. The image shows the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. Lighter blue and greens show vegetation and agriculture, and darker blues show the urban area (left) invading the river (right). Heavily urbanized areas nearby rivers are at higher risk of flooding and are candidates for the Audubon Great Plains' environmental restoration and flood mitigation initiative.

Assessing Urban Flood Vulnerability to Select Restoration Sites for Urban Woods and Prairies in the Great Plains

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Water Resources
Platte River Basin Water Resources (2024 Spring) Team: Jennifer Mathis (Project Lead), Jackie Encinas, Olivia Kirkland, Emma Vail Summary: In the Platte River Basin, wetlands...

Improving California Groundwater Assessments using GRACE and InSAR Datasets for Water Resource Management

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California’s Central Valley is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world, producing approximately $20 billion in crops annually. The recent California droughts...
Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) to visualize drainage networks around the Unalakleet River in Alaska, calculated from an August 2021 Landsat 8 OLI image. Yellow represents standing or flowing water and potential flood zones, while the dark blue represents drier, upland regions. Unalakleet's climate resilience planning prioritizes relocation to upland regions while avoiding areas that have experienced significant permafrost degradation.

Analyzing Permafrost Degradation and Drainage Networks in Unalakleet, Alaska

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Climate
Unalakleet Climate (Summer 2023) Team: Ian Lee (Project Lead), Clara Maxwell, Daniel J. Marsden, M. Jaweed Nazary Summary: The coastal community of Unalakleet is currently...

Validating the Effectiveness of the NASA Open Data Cube on Augmenting Deforestation Analysis in Colombia

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Colombia contains a variety of endemic species, making it one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. Due to a recent peace treaty between...

Monitoring Surface Water Extents of Remote Stock Ponds in the Southwestern United States Using Earth Observing Systems for Enhanced Water Resources Management

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Due to increasingly frequent and severe drought conditions in the southwestern US, land managers and livestock producers need to monitor stock ponds with increasing regularity...

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