Open Range Consulting (ORC) brings more than 40 years of experience managing and assessing landscapes for biological condition. Over the past 25 years, we’ve developed tools and metrics that combine remote sensing with high resolution dimensional on-the-ground sampling. That work has led to the Earth Sense Technology (EST) suite. ORC's Earth Sense Technology Tools and on the ground validation broaden the rangeland perspective from small expensive samples to robust landscape assessments that offer valid and useful tools which can be used to effect real change, improvements and provide feedback. A wealth of landscape management experience coupled with remote sensing at the appropriate spatial and temporal resolutions gives us the ability to provide tools and data developed to mangers specific needs and questions as they relate to the unique conditions found throughout the west.
