Ecosystems serve many critical ecological functions for our land including flood reduction, air quality improvement, and soil stabilization to name a few. Efforts associated with conservation and land protection can help enhance, restore and prolong how well these ecosystem functions are being performed by natural systems. Land managers such as land trusts are currently providing easement monitoring and land protection services, which focus on legal obligations tied to holding these lands from ill treatment of lands. Unfortunately, these monitoring efforts fall short of evaluating, documenting and planning for ecological improvement. Applied Ecological Services (AES) has recently developed an aerial imagery and remotes sensing method that offers a cost-effective approach to serving both the legal and ecological monitoring obligations of conservation easements.
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