bee mapping

Mapping and Assessing Landscape Suitability for Bee Migration

May 31, 2018By Claudia WindeckSpatial Analysis

Recent studies have showed how GIS and remote-sensing applications could help to assess and map landscape suitability for bees.

Land use map from CARETS Final Report, 1979.

In the early 1970s, a joint pilot project between NASA and the USGS sought to test out the feasibility of integrating data from Landsat and high-altitude aircraft sensors into a regional land use database.

Geospatial Climate Models Show How Fire Seasons Are Changing

Changing technologies, including new satellite systems, and better climate and fire modeling, including the integration of these tools and data capture methods, will likely mean improved fire modeling in the future.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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