Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for
human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage forests depend upon …

Remotely sensed data provide many opportunities for enhancing our understanding of the
built and natural environment. Representations of the urban landscape from light detection …

Transportation energy is a significant portion of the energy consumption of the US economy.
While various policies such as changing the fuel mix and alternative fuels are proposed to …

This paper presents a prototype Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) developed to produce
regionally unbiased annual estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB). Our CMS employed …

Geographically isolated wetlands, those entirely surrounded by uplands, provide numerous
landscape‐scale ecological functions, many of which are dependent on the degree to which …

For wildland firefighters, the ability to efficiently evacuate the fireline is limited by terrain,
vegetation, and fire conditions. The impacts of terrain and vegetation on evacuation time to a …

Understanding historical forest dynamics, specifically changes in forest biomass and carbon
stocks, has become critical for assessing current forest climate benefits and projecting future …

Low-cost methods to measure forest structure are needed to consistently and repeatedly
inventory forest conditions over large areas. In this study we investigate low-cost pushbroom …

Abstract The New Madrid seismic zone has been the source of multiple major (M~ 7.0–7.5)
earthquakes in the past 2 ka, yet the surface expression of recent deformation remains …

The US Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is tasked with making
and reporting estimates of various forest attributes using a design-based network of …