Background
The Idaho Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is working with both public and private land management partners to develop a set of analytical and monitoring tools, the Landscape Toolbox, which are designed to enable better rangeland management at landscape scales by integrating existing and emerging field, remote sensing, and landscape scenario modeling methods for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and planning.
Assessment & Monitoring
The multi-scale landscape assessment component helps users match field and remote-sensing methods and technologies to scale-specific management questions, provides guidance on using the information, and determines ecologically-relevant scale from remotely-sensed imagery.
Cumulative Analysis
The cumulative landscape and restoration analysis component will help uses investigate how dynamic landscapes may change over time under different management and disturbance scenarios.
Visualization
Three-dimensional visualization software tools to help transform the arcane language of planning and management into a more realistic depiction of landscapes and their potential future.