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Looking
at Prairies From Space
A
point and click of the mouse will transport land managers
to prairie communities in and around Midewin National Tallgrass
Prairie via Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (HSS). An interactive
Web page at http://wetlands-initiative.org/wetlands_app/index.html
allows visitors to evaluate the use of HSS for the analysis
and monitoring of natural communities. The Web page is a
cooperative project between The Wetlands Initiative, the
Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing at Purdue
University, and Hey and Associates, and is funded by Chicago
Wilderness.
HSS
offers a synoptic, yet detailed, perspective of the plant
community structure and development, especially for large-scale
ecological restorations involving hundreds of thousands
of acres.
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