Tao Huang

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape

A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit

🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

11.06.2025 21:49 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2

I am actively seeking opportunities in geospatial analysis & modeling. PhD in Ecology (2025), with experience in machine learning/deep learning, remote sensing, and hydrology. #geospatial #remotesensing

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🚀 The GeoAI Python package just added a new building regularization method. 🎉

Check it out:
📝 Notebook: geoai.gishub.org/examples/reg...
📂 GitHub: github.com/opengeos/geoai

Give it a try! 🌍✨

#geoai #python #building

10.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! We're exploring a similar approach comparing UAS and satellite imagery in a post-fire environment here in Idaho. We're particularly interested in investigating the consequences of hillslope runoff and erosion.

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Nature fuels creativity

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Quantifying rangeland fractional cover in the Northern Great Basin sagebrush steppe communities using high-resolution unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) imagery - Landscape Ecology Context Satellite products of fractional vegetation cover are often used to manage rangelands. However, they frequently miss the details of heterogeneous landscapes. The use of unoccupied aerial syste...

Our paper shows how high-resolution multispectral drone imagery can effectively map vegetation cover in spatially heterogeneous landscapes: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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