GISCafe: ForWarn monitors forest disturbances across the U.S.

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Susan Smith
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ForWarn monitors forest disturbances across the U.S.

April 24th, 2012 by Susan Smith

ForWarn is a satellite-based forest disturbance monitoring system for the conterminous United States. It delivers new forest change products every eight days and provides tools for attributing abnormalities to insects, disease, wildfire, storms, human development or unusual weather. Archived data provide disturbance tracking across all lands since 2000. Interactive maps are accessible via the Forest Change Assessment Viewer.

ForWarn.forestthreats.org

-USGS

Tags: disturbance tracking, forestry, ForWarn, geospatial, GIS, interactive maps, mapping, satellite imagery, weather

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