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Welcome to the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program. KARS is a research program of the Kansas Biological Survey at the University of Kansas that conducts research on environmental and agricultural applications of remote sensing technology. In cooperation with its commercial partner TerraMetrics, Inc., KARS facilitates technology transfer of products and services derived from remote sensing technologies to commercial, governmental, and other end users.

Location

Higuchi Hall
2101 Constant Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66047-3759

Contact KARS

Phone: 785-864-1500
Fax: 785-864-1534

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Kansas Flood Depth Mapping Severe, widespread flooding in southeast Kansas in 2007 resulted in a Federal Disaster Declaration in 20 counties. Researchers at the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program (KARS), a research unit of the Kansas Biological Survey, helped gather and interpret satellite and ...

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KARS Program Develops International Relationships Jude Kastens, Research Assistant Professor at the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program (KARS), recently spent a week in Campinas, Brazil (about 50 km northwest of São Paulo), at Embrapa, the Brazilian agricultural research agency similar to the USDA. Jude worked ...

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KU Works for Kansas: Protecting the Prairie Collaborative research by teams from KU and K-State was featured in the 2009 issue of KU Works for Kansas, a publication of the KU Office of University Relations. The article describes the purpose of a three-year, statewide, ecological-forecasting study. To ...

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KU Works for Kansas: The View from There Researchers in the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, a unit of the Kansas Biological Survey, were featured in the 2009 edition of KU Works for Kansas, a publication of the KU Office of University Relations. The article provides information on ...

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Satellites Are Watching Your Corn... Article on crop yield forecasting entitled 'Satellites are watching your corn'

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Sedimentation Threatens Sources of Drinking Water, Flood Control KARS scientists are studying the rate of sedimentation in state reservoirs that threatens sources of drinking water.

Research

Ecological Forecasting: 2005 Land Cover - Level I

Started: July 2009

2005 Kansas Land Cover Patterns - Level I

Started: July 2009

Maps

Depth To Flood Eastern Kansas

Published: September 2009

Natural Resource Planner

Published: June 2009

Kansas Applied Remote Sensing
Higuchi Hall
2101 Constant Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66047-3759
P: 785-864-1500

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