Rangeland vegetation monitoring has always been hampered by landscape variability, site selection bias, and available time to get to remote areas. With the Rangeland Analysis Platform, range managers can get landscape-scale cover values (perennial grass, annuals, shrubs, and trees) over both space and time, with data going back to 1984. Brady Allred and Matt Jones discuss the origins of the RAP, the mechanics of the technology, and applications for land managers.

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RESOURCES DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW

Rangeland Analysis Platform. https://rangelands.app/

Working Lands for Wildlife. http://bit.ly/322b83g

Journal article "Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for U.S. rangelands, 1984–2017", available in full text at http://bit.ly/32YowXK.

Journal article "Patterns of rangeland productivity and land ownership: Implications for conservation and management", available in full text at http://bit.ly/325fDKN.

1976 journal article by Eugene Maxwell: "A Remote Rangeland Analysis System", available at http://bit.ly/2phKJ4v.

Convert Google Earth KML file into shapefile for importing into the RAP. https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/kml-to-shp

TRANSCRIPT

The full transcript of this episode is available at: https://bit.ly/2N9IZmR