Haiti Earthquake Disaster Portal
UPDATED 29 Jan 2010 -- The KARS program has been working to develop the Haiti Earthquake Disaster Portal, a website designed to help share geographic data with humanitarian organizations and the public.
Kansas Land Cover Patterns 2005 data released
KARS is pleased to announce the release of the Level IV classification of the Kansas Land Cover Patterns 2005 (KLCP2005) map. This second phase of KLCP2005 contains a significantly more detailed analysis of the Kansas landscape. Utilizing 26 bi-weekly satellite ...
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 ...
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 ...
KARS Researchers Present Posters at Statewide EPSCoR Conference
A number of KARS and KBS researchers made presentations at the 2009 Kansas Statewide EPSCoR Conference in Manhattan, KS, in October. The purpose of the conference was to provide information about recent EPSCoR research and its importance to Kansans as ...
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 ...