This educational poster was created as part of the 2017 IowaView Earth as Art exhibit to give exhibit visitors information about how the images were made using Landsat imagery....

This page contains links to the following documents: Supplemental Data for the the Handbook zip – This zip contains a template file geodatabase, a template mxd, template excel...

This document provides an overview of the Iowa BMP project and three associated projects. It provides background on the project, information about the data structure and...

The goal of the Iowa BMP (Best Management Practices) Mapping Project is to provide a complete baseline set of BMPs dating from the 2007-2010 timeframe for use in watershed...

This site provides free access to Iowa geographic map data through online map viewers and web map services. The site was developed by the Iowa State University Geographic...

Manual and scripts in Python for conducting “agnostic” image classification and accuracy assessment.

Grand Forks County, North Dakota, boasts the highest concentration of shelterbelts in the World. As trees age and reach their lifespan limits, renovations should have taken...

Accurately estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) is important in many applications, including monitoring carbon stocks, investigating deforestation and forest degradation, and...

Future weather and climates, especially rainfall, are expected to have larger variability in the Southern Plains of the United States. However, the degree and timing of...

Agricultural production in the Great Plains provides a significant amount of food for the United States while contributing greatly to farm income in the region. However,...

Devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 2016 and 2017 resulted in significant social, economic, and environmental losses, with the agricultural sector among...

Eddy covariance (EC) systems provide integrated fluxes within their footprint areas. Spatial heterogeneity of up-scaled areas and spatio-temporal mismatches between EC footprint...

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) uses geospatial science and technologies, human geography, as well as fundamental knowledge of statistics, mathematics and physics to solve real...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, are a revolutionary technology that are making it easier than ever to collect information from above the Earth’s surface. For...

With more people living in cities, we are witnessing a decline in exposure to nature. A growing body of research has demonstrated an association between nature contact and...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) have been found to be an effective data source for automated mapping of wetlands. However, it is unclear whether high spatial resolution DEMs,...

Despite the need for quality land cover information, large-area, high spatial resolution land cover mapping has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons including...

Excessive erosion and bank failure within river corridors pose a significant risk to infrastructure and natural systems and reliable characterization of bank erosion is a...

Achieving global sustainable agriculture is one of the most incredible challenges of this century, yet many continue to try to solve this problem through the development of...

This exercise developed by Dr. Tom Mueller of California University of Pennsylvania addresses two National Geographic Standards: Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic...