A system and method for land management using a remote monitoring network including a plurality of sensor operation towers that utilize renewably sustained stationary and mobile sensors, including vertical takeoff and landing remotely piloted aircraft (VTOL RPA), that are autonomously launched, recovered, stored, and maintained by the sensor operation towers to autonomously and remotely acquire environmental, electro-optic, infrared, and light detection and ranging sensor data which is then organized via computer programs encoded on a storage medium and then communicated via a network in a manner that updates and enhances the short-term and long-term situational awareness and decision making capabilities of modern land management entities and thereby aids in land management practices.