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Long Island Sound Watershed's Changing Landscape

Land cover information for the LI Sound Watershed

Changing Landscape is a remote sensing-based land cover study that charts landscape changes in the portions of CT and NY draining to Long Island Sound. The study covers the 25-year period from 1985 to 2010, and includes information on basic land cover, riparian corridor land cover, and impervious cover LEARN MORE

  • LIS Watershed's Changing Landcscape

    Long Island Sound Watershed's Changing Landscape

    Changing Landscape is a remote sensing-based land cover study that charts landscape changes in the portions of CT and NY draining to Long Island Sound. The study covers the 25-year period from 1985 to 2010, and includes information on basic land cover, riparian corridor land cover, and impervious cover. LEARN MORE

  • CT ECO

    CT ECO

    Online maps & geospatial data

    CT ECO provides a variety of tools for sharing natural resources and environmental information. Types of information include water resources, soils, open space, geology and aerial imagery. LEARN MORE

  • Rain Garden Website

    Rain Gardens

    Learn how to create a rain garden

    A shallow, planted depression in the landscape that reduces runoff by allowing it to soak into the ground as opposed to flowing into storm drains or surface waters. LEARN MORE

  • Geospatial Training Program

    Geospatial Training

    Hands-on training courses

    GTP provides technical education and training outside the traditional academic environment. The program's goal is to help municipal land use officials, staff and commission members understand and apply geospatial information technologies to help solve local land use problems and to develop environmentally sensitive land use plans. LEARN MORE

CLEAR provides information, education and assistance to Connecticut's land use decision makers, community organizations and citizens on how to better protect natural resources while accommodating economic growth. Read More

PROGRAMS

CLEAR is comprised of the following award-winning outreach and research programs, each focused on providing information, education and other assistance to Connecticut Communities.

CT NEMO

Educating land use decision-makers and community organizations about the impacts of land use on natural resources, particularly water resources.

National NEMO Network

A national network of NEMO programs that educate land use decision-makers and community organizations about the links between land use and natural resource protection.

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Land Use Academy

Provides land use decision-makers the knowledge and skills needed to serve effectively on a land use board through a series of workshops.

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Geospatial Training

Hands-on training courses for land use decision-makers to introduce new users to geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and remote sensing technologies.

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Forestry

Provides information and assistance to private land owners and local communities on how to better manage their forest lands.

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LERIS

LERIS is the main research program of CLEAR, and the principal place at the University of Connecticut for conducting remote sensing and GIS research focused on natural resources, landscape characterization and change, and the interaction of the two.

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Additional Information
Emerald Ash Borer Trapping Program

The emerald ash borer (EAB) is a non-native insect with the potential to have a devastating effect on the ash trees of Connecticut. This insect, a bark boring beetle, is perilously close to the state, with a major outbreak outside of Kingston, NY, just 25 miles west of the state line. [learn more]

CLEAR Calendar

Check out the Calendar for details on CLEAR-related trainings, workshops, webinars and other events. The Calendar does not always reflect all upcoming events; please visit our programs' websites or contact the program coordinator for the latest event details.

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Support CLEAR

We hope that you find the information, data, tools, training, outreach, and mapping resources of CLEAR useful.

Over 75% of CLEAR's work is supported not by direct state dollars, but by competitive grants acquired from a variety of sources. Hence, our ability to develop and implement our projects is limited, and our work is largely determined by this ever-changing mixture of funding. CLEAR programs and staff are often in a tenuous position, thereby jeopardizing CLEAR's ability to maintain its record of excellence and service to the communities and citizens of Connecticut

If you value our work, we hope that you would consider supporting it through a tax-deductible donation to CLEAR's UConn Foundation account.

For detailed instructions visit our Donation page.

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