WEBINAR: Mapping Cross-Scale Transitions in Rangelands
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UPCOMING WEBINAR | FEBRUARY 26, 2019 | 2 PM EASTERN TIME
Mapping Cross-Scale Transitions in Rangelands
Join NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Montana for this webinar. Learn how new technological innovations in rangeland monitoring are allowing unprecedented tracking of vegetation response to wildfires, brush management, and drought.
This hour-long webinar is focused utilizing the powerful new Rangeland Analysis Platform in the Great Plains ecosystem to improve rangeland management.
The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is a new mapping technology that allows for the tracking of vegetation change at unprecedented scales in both space (United States rangelands from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean at a 30-m resolution) and time (annually from 1984–present). The RAP is free, readily available online, and developed for use by landowners and natural resource managers to track vegetation through time and plan actions to improve America’s grazing lands.
The RAP can be used to inform strategies to improve productivity of grazing lands, manage weeds, mitigate impacts of wildfire and drought, and benefit wildlife habitats. Powered by Google Earth Engine, RAP merges machine learning and cloud-based computing with remote sensing and field data to provide the first-ever annual cover maps of rangeland vegetation. This new platform, when combined with local knowledge, allows users to better understand vegetation change through time and to aid in conservation planning and outcome evaluation. This webinar provides an overview of the innovative breakthrough in the monitoring of rangeland vegetation and examples of how the technology is being applied to advance key missions of existing science-agency-landowner partnerships in the Great Plains.
(No pre-registration required)
Presenters:
- Dr. Dirac Twidwell, Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
- Dr. Brady Allred, Associate Professor, Rangeland Ecologist, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
- Dr. Matthew Jones, Research Scientist, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
CEU Credits / Certifications offered:
- Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) – 1 hour SER-CERP Credit [credits applied for]
- Society for Range Management (SRM) – 1 hour SRM Credit [credits applied for]
- Certified Crop Advisors (CCA) – 1 hour CCA – CM Credit
- Certificate of Participation
