Using Satellite-derived Maps in Rangeland Management

Rangeland management has used Landsat imagery for 50 years. Satellite imagery can provide a more comprehensive view of native pastures and prairies that cover swaths of Western America.



A new paper in Elsevier provides four guiding principles for ranges:

1. Use maps within a decision-making framework

2. Use maps to better understand and embrace landscape variability

3. Keep error in perspective

4. Think critically about contradictions.



Find the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052821000845?via%3Dihub#fig0001