Final Report and Data: Remote sensing to segregate grass and shrub mixed habitats in Janos Grassland Priority Conservation Area

Creation

2017-08-30 23:37:25

Last Update

2017-09-13 16:40:22

Start Date

2013-07-15

End Date

2014-09-01

Start Date

2013-07-15 05:00:00

End Date

2014-09-01 05:00:00

LCC Network Data Steward(Point of Contact), Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative(administrator), Greg Levandoski(Principal Investigator), Duane Pool(Co-Investigator), Irene Ruvalcaba(Cooperator/Partner), Juan Carlos Guzman(Cooperator/Partner), Antonio Moreno Talamantes,(Cooperator/Partner), 2017-08-30(creation), 2017-09-13(lastUpdate), 2013-07-15(Start), 2014-09-01(End), Final Report and Data: Remote sensing to segregate grass and shrub mixed habitats in Janos Grassland Priority Conservation Area, https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/59a74c35e4b0fd9b77cf6cb1, https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog

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Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative(Distributor)

The need for a consistent and detailed land cover classification has been highlighted by several teams within the Desert LCC (for use in habitat inventory, fire-fuel modeling, landscape change and risk assessments. The team leading CMQ 3 specifically identified the need to better segregate the grass and shrub composition that make up much of the desert habitats. We will identify a grassland remote sensing methodology that can be applied consistently throughout the desert grasslands any time an organization with the desire, means and capacity wishes to extend its geographic land cover inventory. The goals/objectives of this proposal are to identify which approach or combination of remote sensing approaches results in the best delineation between levels of shrub encroached grasslands, assess whether any combination of these approaches can be used at an implementation scale to delineate grass-shrub at threshold levels with biological meaning for species with available information (i.e. birds, antelope, herptiles or other grassland endemic species), classify the grasslands and shrublands of the Janos Grassland Priority Conservation Area, evaluate the compatibility for cross-walks of the classification outputs with existing classification products (LandFire, GAP, ReGAP).

• Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative
• LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal