Through the implementation of six joint projects beginning in 2001, NASA’s Applied Science Program and Innovim have been assisting the USGS in fulfilling one of its missions to provide advanced decision support capabilities for managing invasive plant species in the United States. The USGS has the responsibility to make available these latest technologies to a host of federal agencies whose charters entail taking preemptive actions in defense of our ecosystem. Placing significant importance on this initiative, NASA has identified the Invasive Species Forecasting System as an application of national priority.

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