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Digital Mobile Sketch Mapping

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Digital Mobile Sketch Mapping Screen Capture 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…
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Detection Surveys

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Insect and Disease Detection Survey Acre Summaries The Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, As Amended Through 2008, Section 8, [16 U.S.C. 2104] FOREST HEALTH PROTECTION, authorizes the Forest Service to "conduct surveys to detect and appraise insect infestations and disease conditions and man-made stresses affecting trees and establish a monitoring system throughout the forests of the…
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