Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR) is home to a long-term ecological research site (LTER) located within a network of long-term monitoring sites funded by the National Science Foundation. The Sevilleta LTER seeks to understand the impacts of climatic variability on dryland dynamics. ASPIRE is partnering with the LTER to develop a thirty-year map of vegetation dynamics to illuminate these processes on the landscape scale. The maps will be derived from Landsat satellite imagery using a multi-endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) to map vegetation species at sub-pixel scales.
