Dang I love this place. Image of Boise foothills during a spring storm.

Climate Fiction Won't Save Us
As the world burns, readers increasingly look to climate fiction for hope, predictions, and actionable solutions. But can the genre really be a manual for useful change?
Esquire@coreysnipes thanks Corey! you were really helpful in initiating our open drone map journey!
finally, if you are interested in learning more about these methods, come to our workshop
at the Ecological Society's Annual Meeting in Portland: "An Open Source Workflow to Quantify Canopy Structure from Aerial Imagery with OpenDroneMap" (1417678)
Friday, Aug 11th from 10-11:30 AM PST
we've also published our open source workflow, which uses
@OpenDroneMap
for orthomosaic and structure-for-motion products:
https://doi.org/10.7923/92HF-GP09 #opendronemap #uas #drone #orthomosaic #sfmOpen Drone Map: Structure-from-Motion Workflow | RCDS Data Repository
if you like high-res
#drone data for ecological data collection, check out our published data products:
https://data.nkn.uidaho.edu/dataset/digital-aerial-imagery-rgb-and-multispectral-2010-south-trail-wildfire-boundary-near-hammett These 1-1.5 cm imagery are detailed enough to pick out shrubs, forbs, and grasses. data from >10 post-fire landscapes available
#uas #sagebrush #opendataDigital aerial imagery (RGB and multispectral) from the 2010-SOUTH TRAIL wildfire boundary near Hammett Idaho USA-2022 | RCDS Data Repository
So excited to be at my favorite academic meeting for the week! @iale_na
#landscapeecologynew paper out: the Western US is experiencing an unprecedented population boom. We found declining rangeland quality in fast-growing counties. This result should raise alarm bells for ecosystem integrity, even in areas outside the footprint of cities
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gKPB_3sEQ8uu2I’m sure others have made this point, but the constant policing of how other people should post here, in the name of “civility” or “community”, is why Mastodon feels more racist than Twitter. It’s basically the MLK white moderate quote: