USGS - Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center

Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center

Our Vision

The Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center (RMGSC) is a leading scientific authority in evaluating, understanding, and predicting the risks, vulnerabilities, causes, and consequences of landscape change on the physical environment and the human condition.

RMGSC scientists observe, describe, and analyze the state and condition of the natural and human environments by mapping, modeling, and monitoring geographic landscape change at regional, national, and global scales.

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Our Science Agenda

	The RMGSC strives to implement this vision by performing leading edge geographic and land remote sensing science, and applying state-of-the-art information technology to changing geographic landscapes, ecosystems, and environments. Specifically, the RMGSC emphasizes research and investigations in:
	Land Cover Mapping, Status & Trends Landscape Change Analysis & Modeling Natural Hazards Risk & Vulnerabilities Assessment Remote Sensing Research & Development
This agenda supports the Geography Discipline's primary goal "To improve people's ability to prosper by either affecting how the land will change (positive) or by becoming more adaptive to change (forecasting)." It also allows the RMGSC to provide federal, state, and local decision makers with timely, objective, relevant, and innovative geographic science, tools, models, information and reports that will help to improve and sustain environmental quality and public safety in an ever-changing world.

Featured Science

Roadless Space in America

Converting the average distance to any road within a landscape into a volume metric yields a measure of roadless space for use in ecology and urban planning. more>

Featured in the May '07 copy of
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Hazards Monitoring

The RMGSC's Natural Hazards Support System displays near-real-time natural hazard events.

Wildland Fires

The RMGSC currently hosts and supports the GeoMAC wildland fire application.

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