Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT)

With funding support from the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC), Eastern Threat Center scientists are developing the Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) to help natural resource conservation practitioners monitor and assess impacts on changing landscapes and the ecological services and benefits they provide to people.

LanDAT logoLanDAT features a web-based map viewer that includes an annually-updated set of spatial data products. With the LanDAT viewer, users can visualize broad patterns in vegetation change at large scales and better understand how landscape properties support or compromise ecosystem services. Findings can be applied to local and regional monitoring, planning, and management decisions.

For training and assistance, a full list of project partners, and upcoming training events, visit the LanDAT website.

Key Uses

Inventory, Monitoring and Assessments

Scale

Mid-Scale

User Experience Level

Intermediate

What do you need to get started?

All that is needed is internet access to the LanDAT website.

Outputs

Annual and multi-year land surface phenology and vegetation change maps and graphs. Quantitative measures of the landscape-scale consequences of vegetation disturbance and recovery for overall ecosystem dynamics.

Strengths

LanDAT helps visualize and understand the long-term vegetation dynamics that result from drivers such as wildfire, wind disturbance, land use change, and drought in any ecosystem type across North America.

Limitations

Currently the system includes land surface phenology data and derived long-term vegetation dynamics products for the years 2000-2018, to be updated.

Online Resources

LanDAT

Authors

Person
Danny C. Lee, PhD
Center Director
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/danny.c.lee
Person
Lars Y. Pomara, PhD
Ecologist
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/lazarus.y.pomara
Person
Bjorn Brooks, PhD
Ecologist, ORISE Fellow
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/bjorn-gustaf.brooks