Geographic Resource Solutions

GRS Releases Galena Forest (Biomass) Inventory and Management Plan Report

January, 2013 – In late January Geographic Resource Solutions (GRS) released the Galena Forest Inventory and Management Plan Report developed for a consortium of the Louden Tribal Council, the Galena School District, and the City of Galena, Alaska. This report describes the detailed vegetation/land cover/biomass inventory developed for approximately 1.25 million acres of wildlands in the vicinity of Galena that was used to estimate forest growth and biomass availability and project the magnitude and sustainability of future harvest levels through the end of this century. This information will provide the basis for a determination of the feasibility of developing biomass fueled power generation for the community of Galena. This Project was partially funded by grants from the Alaska Energy Authority and the Bureau of Land Management.

GRS has recently posted the two presentations made by Ken Stumpf of GRS, Director Of Remote Sensing Applications, under the Remote Sensing Page of our Presentations and Workshops subject.  These presentations were titled Accuracy Assessment, "The Emperor's New Clothes," and Other Fairy Tales and The Lassen Volcanic National Park Comparative Mapping Project - Preliminary Results.

Two versions of The Lassen Volcanic National Park Comparative Mapping Project - Preliminary Results were posted.  One version has notes that describe information shown on many of the slides, whereas the other version does not.

For further information about these presentations or the materials contained within them, contact Ken at GRS by email or phone.

We have posted the slides from a recent land cover mapping accuracy assessment presentation at ASPRS based on work performed at Lassen Volcanic National Park by Ken Stumpf on our Remote Sensing Downloads page.

We have posted the slides from a new land cover mapping presentation by Ken Stumpf on our Remote Sensing Downloads page.

GRS Densitometers for Education Program

GRS is pleased to announce the continuation of our GRS Densitometers for Education Program.  Since 2009, GRS has been providing GRS Densitometers to qualified academic institutions for reduced cost or no-cost.   As of April of 2025 GRS has provided 189 GRS Densitometers to over 60 academic institutions in nine countries in six of the seven continents of the world.

GRS was selected by National Park Service to perform land-cover mapping of the 20-million acre Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. This park is the largest national park within the national park system and is characterized by its rugged terrain, magnificent mountains and glaciers, and diverse ecosystems. The park contains five of the nine tallest mountains in North America as well as some of the largest glacial features, including Hubbard Glacier, Malaspina Glacier (larger than the state of Rhode Island), and the massive Bagley Ice Field