Recording bear (BEAR-1 and BEAR-2) and Douglas-fir beetle (1-1) tree mortality using the new Digital Mobile Sketch Map (DMSM) system. Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
Note: 2018 is the first year the Digital Mobile Sketch Map (DMSM) system's used for forest health data collection in Oregon and Washington. "DMSM is tablet hardware, software, and back end data support processes (ArcGIS Desktop Tools) that allow trained aerial surveyors, in light aircraft, and ground observers to record forest disturbances and their causal agents. DMSM replaces the legacy Digital Aerial Sketch Mapping (DASM) and will greatly enhance the quality and quantity of forest health data while improving safety by integrating with programs such as operational remote sensing (ORS) which uses satellite imagery to monitor disturbances." For more about DMSM see:
www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/applied-sciences/mapping-repor... For the 2018 arcgis storymap covering aerial surveys conducted in Oregon and Washington, see:
arcg.is/fKr0f For more about the Region 6 aerial survey program see:
www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/insects-... Photo by: Justin Hof
Date: July 5, 2018
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Aerial Survey Program collection.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:
www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
