Accurate and consistent characterization of shrub and grassland components and how they change across time is crucial to understanding and managing these ecosystems.� The USGS and BLM have been working together to provide new remote-sensing products that characterize Western shrub and grasslands by their fractional proportions of shrub, sagebrush, herbaceous, bare ground and other targets. These component products offer maximum flexibility to develop a variety of applications at ecosystem scales that can then be monitored for change across time. Additionally, by using the Landsat archive of imagery since 1984, historical trends can be developed to help understand future land change trajectories. This presentation will overview these new remote sensing products that are being generated across the west, and outline their potential utility for management applications in climate change, wildlife habitat, restoration and other areas.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.