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Remote Sensing Conference. USDA Forest Service/BLM sponsored 12 th biennial conference on remote sensing and its relevance/application to resource management Salt Lake City – April 15-17, 2008 “Supporting Resource Management with Technology”. Sponsors. USDA Forest Service
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Remote Sensing Conference USDA Forest Service/BLM sponsored 12th biennial conference on remote sensing and its relevance/application to resource management Salt Lake City – April 15-17, 2008 “Supporting Resource Management with Technology”
Sponsors • USDA Forest Service • Remote Sensing Application Center (RSAC) • Forest Service Geospatial Service • USDA Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) • BLM • NASA – Earth Science Research
Agenda • Thursday • Mid-level Veg Mapping • Post-Fire • Data Sources 2 • Gen. Resources Applications • Soils and Ecological Mapping • Tuesday • Inventory • Forest Health • Monitoring • Wednesday • Data Sources • Riparian • Fire • Watershed • Lidar
Conference Highlights • Data Sources • Riparian • Mid-Level Veg Mapping • Applications • Soils and Ecological Unit Mapping
Data Sources • America View Program through Universities/USGS and internships • Virtual Globes; Google Earth, MS Virtual Earth, NASA WorldWind • KML use • Nationwide GIS data over a network using ArcGIS Image Server extension in ArcGIS 9.x • Riparian • RA applications used for riparian inventories and monitoring • Wyoming State Riparian Inventory
Mid-Level Vegetation Mapping • Fire/Fuels maps to Veg Maps (i.e. LandFire) • SPOT vs Landsat Datasets using eCognition • Applications • Soils and Ecological Unit Mapping • Filling the Gaps in Discontinuous SSURGO Datasets