Uses

The USDA Forest Service’s ForWarn system provides near-real-time tracking of vegetation changes across landscapes in the United States, for both monitoring disturbance events as well as year-to-year variability. This system helps with wildfire, pest management, drought and many other forest…

One of the uses of PAD-US is for explaining public lands and protected areas to very broad audiences.  The Story Maps team at Esri developed a web application on their platform for Earth Day that features PAD-US, to provide just…

Global efforts to conserve biodiversity include targets to protected certain percentages of land and water areas. Puerto Rico has used PAD-US to define its protection accomplishments.