Since 2010 Open Range Consulting has been taking overhead pictures of vegetation throughout the Western United States. These images which are up to 20 million pixels a piece now number over 5,000.� These images have a classification accuracy of greater than 90 percent. The classified images are used to create landscape wide maps covering millions of acres. They are highly accurate and depict functional vegetation cover attributes which are vital to land management. These maps we develop are used by agencies, businesses, and ranch personnel to report on vegetative characteristics and drive management decisions.� Accurately classifying each image was taking an hour per image, this is a problem. Streamlining this process could significantly reduce costs and the timeliness of this product.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.