New landscape change monitoring system tool helps us understand and visualize landscape-level changes over time

Sean P. Healey

Treesearch

New landscape change monitoring system tool helps us understand and visualize landscape-level changes over time

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Sean P. Healey

Year:

2020

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), October 2020. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.

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Abstract

The Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) is an important new dataset and tool that allows the user to create landscape scale historical disturbance maps. LCMS combines satellite imagery with other monitoring data to produce annual maps showing change (vegetation loss and vegetation gain), land cover, and land use, generating a “best available” map covering multiple disturbance processes and diverse cover types.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS), landscape management, monitoring

Citation

Healey, Sean P. 2020. New landscape change monitoring system tool helps us understand and visualize landscape-level changes over time. Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), October 2020. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.