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High-Tech Landscapes and Data Products
YERC’s High Tech Landscapes Initiative focuses on the use of advanced remote sensing techniques for ecological research in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. YERC believes that critical information for a large number of ecological questions can be obtained from remote sensing data. Whether research is focused on habitat selection by a small mammal or regional atmospheric carbon modeling, remote sensing data can provide critical model inputs including land cover, plant phenology and vegetation structure. YERC’s focus on long-term, large-scale research stresses the use of remote sensing and GIS which can provide consistent, objective measurements of critical ecological features across the landscape and over large time-spans.
YERC researchers are involved in a range of research applications with remote sensing. Current and past projects have focused on mapping wildfire fuels and forest regeneration following the 1988 fires, classifying vegetation for an assessment of invasive weeds risk, retrieving water temperatures to aid the study of whirling disease, mapping whitebark pine and blister rust infection, and habitat mapping for a range of wildlife species. The links above highlight a few of these research efforts.
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