Western Geographic Science Center
Multimedia
How an area changes through time with a well pad
Graph showing A) Landsat time series of the Soil-Adjusted Total Vegetation Index (SATVI) from 1984-2011. Phases include pre-drilling from 1984-2002, active from 2002-2006, and post-abandonment 2006-2011, B) Bfast model of trends used to estimate breaks in the time series, and C) orhtophotos showing the site during different points in time and where those dates fall on the
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Well pads in the Colorado Plateau
Location map of the Colorado Plateau ecoregion; ecoregion detail (A) with individual well sites identified by a black dot; Google Earth Pro aerial photography showing the footprint of oil and gas development at the landscape scale as small light colored patches (B); Google Earth Pro close-up of well pads and roads (C).
Disturbed desert landscape with erosion
Disturbed desert landscape with erosion
distressed desert of the Sonoran Desert - carousal
distressed desert of the Sonoran Desert, carousal image
Arid Landscape
Aerial view of a desert landscape
Field Crew Measuring Density of Grasses
Field crew measuring cover of Lehmann Lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) and Boer Lovegrass (E. curvula var. conferta = E. chloromelas) in a desert grassland of southern Arizona.
Sonoran Desert of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
The Sonoran Desert of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
Disturbed desert landscape
Disturbed desert landscape
Field Crew
Field crew collecting validation information for remote sensing products.
