Integrating a Rangeland Health Assessment With Successional Management

Rangeland Health Standards Assessment

Challenges of Integrating Geospatial Tehcnologies into Rangeland Research and Management

Author is the GIS Director at Idaho State University, GIS Training and Research Center, Campus box 8130, Pocatello, ID 83209-8130. Much of the research described in this paper was funded by grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center. Idaho State University would also like to acknowledge the Idaho Delegation for their assistance in obtaining this gr...

CARMA: A Case-Based Rangeland Management Adviser

CARMA is an advisory system for rangeland grasshopper infestations that demonstrates how AI technology can deliver expert advice to compensate for cutbacks in public services. CARMA uses two knowledge sources for the key task of predicting forage consumption by grasshoppers: (1) cases obtained by asking a group of experts to solve representative hypothetical problems and (2) a numeric model of ...

Adaptive Management of Rangeland Systems

Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that uses structured learning to reduce uncertainties for the improvement of management over time. The origins of adaptive management are linked to ideas of resilience theory and complex systems. Rangeland management is particularly well suited for the application of adaptive management, having sufficient controllability and redu...

Final Report: Comparing Effects of Management Practices on Rangeland Health with Geospatial Technologies

Understanding the distribution of landscape variables presents several advantages to researchers focusing on ecological studies. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a relatively common productivity variable used to assess, monitor, and compare landscapes. In this study, an NDVI layer was created using Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre 4 (SPOT 4) satellite imagery to comp...