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Millions of dollars have been spent on brush management, or removal of unwanted woody vegetation, as a conservation practice to control the presence of woody species. Land managers need an inexpensive means of monitoring the effects of brush management conser- vation methods for decreasing degradation in rangeland systems. In this study, free, publically available, high-resolution (1 m) imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) and moderate-resolution (30 m) Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery were com- bined to produce a large-scale technique for mapping woody cover. High-resolution imagery- based estimates of woody cover were found to be reasonable (RMSE ¼ 3.8%, MAE ¼ 2.9%) surrogates for ground-based woody cover. An equation for TM-derived woody cover was developed. TM scenes of woody cover (TMWC) were produced and validated using NAIP and ground-based data. Results showed that the developed relation produced viable (RMSE ¼ 8.5%, MAE ¼ 6.4%) maps of woody cover that could be used to successfully track the occurrence of brush removal, as well as monitor the presence or lack of subsequent reemergence. This work provides land managers with an operational means of determining where to allocate resources to implement brush management, as well as a cost-effective method of monitoring the effects of their efforts. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. (DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9

Errata: Development of an integrated multiplatform approach for assessing brush management conservation efforts in semiarid rangelands