{"id":782,"date":"2025-07-08T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.umaine.edu\/wheatland-lab\/?page_id=782"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:23:50","slug":"forest-monitoring-disturbance-mapping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wheatland-lab\/forest-monitoring-disturbance-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Monitoring &amp; Disturbance Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-id782_1db7d3-0e > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id782_1db7d3-0e > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id782_1db7d3-0e > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:80px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1268px;padding-top:75px;padding-bottom:75px;grid-template-columns:repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));}.kb-row-layout-id782_1db7d3-0e{background-image:linear-gradient(235deg,rgb(8,46,88) 0%,rgb(65,118,161) 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.kadence-column782_a8dc3b-ce{align-self:center;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column782_a8dc3b-ce{align-self:auto;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column782_a8dc3b-ce > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column782_a8dc3b-ce\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\"]{margin-right:-10px;text-align:left;font-size:32px;font-weight:900;font-style:normal;font-family:stratum-1-web;text-transform:uppercase;color:#082e58;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\"]{text-align:center!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_b72e16-c2\">forest Conservation Easement Monitoring<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\"]{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;text-align:left;font-size:20px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;color:#082e58;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\"]{text-align:center!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading782_faccab-1a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_faccab-1a\">The University of Maine has been an essential technical partner to the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) in stewarding its large-scale conservation easements in Maine. UMaine faculty collaborated with NEFF to create a three-level inspection process. Originally, UMaine&#8217;s School of Forest Resources and the Maine Image Analysis Lab provided satellite imagery analyses for the program.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\"]{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;text-align:left;font-size:20px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;color:#082e58;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\"]{text-align:center!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading782_7b29ba-ad\">Following a collaborative reassessment, the process was refined. Today, the Wheatland Geospatial Lab conducts the first two tiers of the annual monitoring process. Level One consists of a manual scan of recent public aerial imagery. For Level Two, Wheatland lab personnel fly a UMaine Cessna equipped with a specialized near-infrared camera to take high-resolution aerial photos of identified areas of interest. The imagery is then georectified and analyzed in a GIS to flag disturbances for potential on-the-ground (Level Three) inspections by NEFF staff. This partnership provides the crucial remote analyses needed to monitor vast forestlands efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;}.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kt-row-column-wrap > .kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e{align-self:center;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e{align-self:auto;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column782_a1c2fb-5e 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