About Resource Assessment
Resource Assessment (RA) supports DNR goals by providing inventory, monitoring, and data analysis products and services to the Minnesota government, collaborators, and the public to help them manage, conserve, and sustain natural resources.
New technology, frequent data acquisition, and modernized methods for analyzing data continue to make RA a leader in statewide natural resource management. The support model we developed enables us to build partnerships and provide the most cost-effective solutions to all stakeholders for long-term natural resource management decision-making.
Services and data products available
Resource Assessment provides high-quality data and information for our partners and customers, including public agencies, municipalities, tribal nations, private industry, non-profit organizations, and private land owners. Our services include fieldwork, aerial photography, mapping, reports and recommendations, and various spatial data analyses. Additional examples include:
- Forest inventory (e.g., fieldwork, modeling)
- Fall color and supplemental aerial photography
- Cartographic mapping and map production
- Forest Resources Reports and Action Plan
- Forest canopy change detection
- Forest cover type mapping
- Wetland inventories
- GIS analyses
- Hydrographic modeling
- Large raster processing
- Lidar processing and derived product creation
- Wetland status and trends monitoring
- Forest fire vegetation health analysis
- Natural disaster mapping and monitoring
Please use our contact information below to find out more about our services.
Looking for private woodland owners to help expand forest inventory.
Woodland owners with greater than two acres are eligible to participate in a new effort to expand forest inventory. Learn more about how you help expand Minnesota’s forest inventory database.
In the news and upcoming events
Resource Assessment keeps growing! Email Resource Assessment or check out the Minnesota Careers webpage for job opportunities.
Check out this WCCO News Story about how RA uses lidar-derived information to enhance and update our forest inventory!
Other resources
- Videos
For more information about Resource Assessment:
Dennis Kepler, Resource Assessment Supervisor
Jason Langenecker, Assistant Resource Assessment Supervisor for Field Services
Lucas Spaete, Assistant Resource Assessment Supervisor for Geospatial Services
Jennifer Corcoran, Remote Sensing Program Consultant, Remote Sensing and GIS
Keb Guralski, Statewide Inventory Coordinator, Forest Inventory and GIS
Lila Westreich, Guideline Monitoring Program Consultant
General questions: Resource Assessment
Questions about Forest Inventory or Field Procedures: MN Forest Inventory or email Keb Guralski
Questions about the Minnesota Lidar Plan: LidarHUB or email MN Lidar or Jennifer Corcoran