selected publications
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academic article
- treetop: A Shiny-based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13:1164-1176. 2022
- A Comparison of Multitemporal Airborne Laser Scanning Data and the Fuel Characteristics Classification System for Estimating Fuel Load and Consumption. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 127. 2022
- Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment. 270. 2022
- Characterizing individual tree-level snags using airborne lidar-derived forest canopy gaps within closed-canopy conifer forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13:476-484. 2022
- Evaluating the Use of Lidar to Discern Snag Characteristics Important for Wildlife. Remote Sensing. 14. 2022
- Environmental Influences on Density and Height Growth of Natural Ponderosa Pine Regeneration following Wildfires. Fire-Switzerland. 4. 2021
- Evaluating the Persistence of Post-Wildfire Ash: A Multi-Platform Spatiotemporal Analysis. Fire-Switzerland. 4. 2021
- Tree Mortality in Western US Forests Forecasted Using Forest Inventory and Random Forest Classification. Ecosphere. 12:e03419. 2021
- Regional Modeling of Forest Fuels and Structural Attributes Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data in Oregon. Remote Sensing. 13:261. 2021
- Biophysical Settings that Influenced Plantation Survival During the 2015 Wildfires in Northern Rocky Mountain Moist Mixed-Conifer Forests. Journal of Forestry. 2021
- Estimating Time Since the Last Stand-Replacing Disturbance (TSD) from Spaceborne Simulated GEDI Data: A Feasibility Study. Remote Sensing. 2020
- A Carbon Monitoring System for Mapping Regional, Annual Aboveground Biomass Across the Northwestern USA. Environmental Research Letters. 15:095003. 2020
- Monitoring Pinyon-juniper Cover and Aboveground Biomass Across the Great Basin. Environmental Research Letters. 15:025004. 2020
- Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda. Fire Ecology. 16. 2020
- Reconstruction of the Disturbance History of a Temperate Coniferous Forest Through Stand-level Analysis of Airborne LiDAR Data. Forestry. 93:38-55. 2020
- Fuel Dynamics Following Wildfire in US Northern Rockies Forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 3:UNSP 51. 2020
- Using Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality Reported in Aerial Surveys in a Mixed Conifer Forest in Northern Idaho, USA. Forests. 11:529. 2020
- Does Burn Severity Affect Plant Community Diversity and Composition in Mixed Conifer Forests of the United States Intermountain West One Decade Post Fire?. Fire Ecology. 15. 2019
- Short- and long-term effects of ponderosa pine fuel treatments intersected by the Egley Fire Complex, Oregon, USA. Fire Ecology. 15. 2019
- Characterizing persistent unburned islands within the Inland Northwest USA. Fire Ecology. 15:UNSP 20. 2019
- Applications of the United States Forest Inventory and Analysis dataset: a review and future directions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 48:1251-1268. 2018
- Supervised spatial classification of multispectral LiDAR data in urban areas. PLOS One. 13:e0206185. 2018
- Corrigendum to: Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27:498-+. 2018
- Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27:228-240. 2018
- Estimating Stand Height and Tree Density in Pinus taeda plantations using in-situ data, airborne LiDAR and k-Nearest Neighbor Imputation. Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias. 90:295-309. 2018
- Forest productivity varies with soil moisture more than temperature in a small montane watershed. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 259:211-221. 2018
- Preface: Special Issue on Wildland Fires. Land. 7. 2018
- Semi-Automated Delineation of Stands in an Even-Age Dominated Forest: A LiDAR-GEOBIA Two-Stage Evaluation Strategy. Remote Sensing. 10:1622. 2018
- Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014. Ecosphere. 9:e02029. 2018
- Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are oppositely associated to productivity and heterogeneity in temperate forests. Remote Sensing of Environment. 215:145-156. 2018
- Multidecadal trends in area burned with high severity in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 1880-2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26:930-943. 2017
- Impacts of Airborne Lidar Pulse Density on Estimating Biomass Stocks and Changes in a Selectively Logged Tropical Forest. Remote Sensing. 9. 2017
- Individual Tree Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Derived Canopy Height Model in an Open Canopy Mixed Conifer Forest. Forests. 8. 2017
- Prediction of Forest Canopy and Surface Fuels from Lidar and Satellite Time Series Data in a Bark Beetle-Affected Forest. Forests. 8. 2017
- Modeling and mapping basal area of Pinus taeda L. plantation using airborne LiDAR data. Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias. 89:1895-1905. 2017
- Combined effect of pulse density and grid cell size on predicting and mapping aboveground carbon in fast-growing Eucalyptus forest plantation using airborne LiDAR data.. Carbon Balance and Management. 12:13. 2017
- Erratum to: Combined effect of pulse density and grid cell size on predicting and mapping aboveground carbon in fast-growing Eucalyptus forest plantation using airborne LiDAR data.. Carbon Balance and Management. 12:14. 2017
- Long-Term Vegetation Response Following Post-fire Straw Mulching. Fire Ecology. 15. 2017
- Indicators of burn severity at extended temporal scales: a decade of ecosystem response in mixed-conifer forests of western Montana. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26.0:755.0-771.0. 2017
- Relationships among Vegetation Structure, Canopy Composition, and Avian Richness Patterns across an Aspen-Conifer Forest Gradient. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 43.0:231.0-243.0. 2017
- A principal component approach for predicting the stem volume in Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil using airborne LiDAR data. Forestry. 89:422-433. 2016
- The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities. BioScience. 66:130-146. 2016
- Development of Height-Volume Relationships in Second Growth Abies grandis for Use with Aerial LiDAR. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 42:400-410. 2016
- Imputation of Individual Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) Tree Attributes from Field and LiDAR Data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 42:554-573. 2016
- Laboratory experiments to estimate interception of infrared radiation by tree canopies. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25:1009-1014. 2016
- Mapping Forest Structure and Composition from Low-Density LiDAR for Informed Forest, Fuel, and Fire Management at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 42:411-427. 2016
- Simulated water budget of a small forested watershed in the continental/maritime hydroclimatic region of the United States. Hydrological Processes. 2016
- Occupancy of red-naped sapsuckers in a coniferous forest: using LiDAR to understand effects of vegetation structure and disturbance. Ecology and Evolution. 5:5383-5393. 2015
- A Case Study Comparison Of Landfire Fuel Loading And Emissions Generation On A Mixed Conifer Forest In Northern Idaho, USA. Fire Ecology. 11:108-127. 2015
- Vegetation response to burn severity, native grass seeding, and salvage logging. Fire Ecology. 11:31-58. 2015
- Vegetation, topography and daily weather influenced burn severity in central Idaho and western Montana forests. Ecosphere. 6. 2015
- Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23:1045-1060. 2014
- Landsat Time Series and Lidar as Predictors of Live and Dead Basal Area Across Five Bark Beetle-Affected Forests. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 7:3440-3452. 2014
- How much does the time lag between wildlife field- data collection and LiDAR- data acquisition matter for studies of animal distributions? A case study using bird communities. Remote Sensing Letters. 5:185-193. 2014
- Is proportion burned severely related to daily area burned?. Environmental Research Letters. 9. 2014
- Remote sensing the vulnerability of vegetation in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 154:322-337. 2014
- Vegetation Response After Post-Fire Mulching And Native Grass Seeding. Fire Ecology. 10:49-62. 2014
- Using Satellite and Airborne LiDAR to Model Woodpecker Habitat Occupancy at the Landscape Scale. PLOS One. 8:e80988. 2013
- The relationship of post-fire white ash cover to surface fuel consumption. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22:780-785. 2013
- Fuel moisture influences on fire-altered carbon in masticated fuels: An experimental study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 118:30-40. 2013
- Evaluating methods to detect bark beetle-caused tree mortality using single-date and multi-date Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 132:49-58. 2013
- Lidar-Derived Canopy Architecture Predicts Brown Creeper Occupancy Of Two Western Coniferous Forests. Condor. 115:614-622. 2013
- Quantifying aboveground forest carbon pools and fluxes from repeat LiDAR surveys. Remote Sensing of Environment. 123:25-40. 2012
- Investigating the influence of LiDAR ground surface errors on the utility of derived forest inventories. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 42:413-422. 2012
- Estimating aboveground carbon stocks of a forest affected by mountain pine beetle in Idaho using lidar and multispectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 124:270-281. 2012
- Landscape-scale analysis of aboveground tree carbon stocks affected by mountain pine beetles in Idaho. Environmental Research Letters. 7. 2012
- Evaluation of the MODIS LAI product using independent lidar-derived LAI: A case study in mixed conifer forest. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115:3625-3639. 2011
- Using hyperspectral imagery to estimate forest floor consumption from wildfire in boreal forests of Alaska, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 20:255-271. 2011
- A Comparison of Two Open Source LiDAR Surface Classification Algorithms. Remote Sensing. 3:638-649. 2011
- Landscape-scale parameterization of a tree-level forest growth model: a k-nearest neighbor imputation approach incorporating LiDAR data. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40:184-199. 2010
- Burn Severity Of Areas Reburned By Wildfires In The Gila National Forest, New Mexico, USA. Fire Ecology. 6:77-85. 2010
- Spectral analysis of charcoal on soils: implications for wildland fire severity mapping methods. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 19:976-983. 2010
- Discrete Return Lidar in Natural Resources: Recommendations for Project Planning, Data Processing, and Deliverables. Remote Sensing. 1:776-794. 2009
- Remote sensing for prediction of 1-year post-fire ecosystem condition. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 18:594-608. 2009
- A cross-comparison of field, spectral, and lidar estimates of forest canopy cover. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 35:447-459. 2009
- Characterizing forest succession with lidar data: An evaluation for the Inland Northwest, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113:946-956. 2009
- Review: LiDAR Utility for Natural Resource Managers. Remote Sensing. 1:934-951. 2009
- Discrete return lidar-based prediction of leaf area index in two conifer forests. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:3947-3957. 2008
- The influence of conifer forest canopy cover on the accuracy of two individual tree measurement algorithms using lidar data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 34:S338-S350. 2008
- Characterizing Forest Fragments in Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Ecosystems. Ambio. 37:569-576. 2008
- Burn Severity and Vegetation Response Following Eight Large Wildfires Across the Western US. Journal of Fire Ecology. 31:91-108. 2007
- The Relationship of Multispectral Satellite Imagry to Immediate Fire Effects. Journal of Fire Ecology. 3:64-90. 2007
- Evaluation of linear spectral unmixing and DNBR for predicting postfire recovery in a North American ponderosa pine forest. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28:5159-5166. 2007
- Production of Landsat ETM plus reference imagery of burned areas within Southern African savannahs: comparison of methods and application to MODIS. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28:2753-2775. 2007
- Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Active Fire and Post-Fire Effects. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 15:319-345. 2006
- Automated estimation of individual conifer tree height and crown diameter via two-dimensional spatial wavelet analysis of lidar data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 32:153-161. 2006
- Regression modeling and mapping of coniferous forest basal area and tree density from discrete-return lidar and multispectral satellite data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 32:126-138. 2006
- Testing the potential of multi-spectral remote sensing for retrospectively estimating fire severity in African Savannahs. Remote Sensing of Environment. 97:92-115. 2005
- Characterizing and mapping forest fire fuels using ASTER imagery and gradient modeling. Forest Ecology and Management. 217:129-146. 2005
- Estimating combustion of large downed woody debris from residual white ash. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 14:245-248. 2005
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chapter
- Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning Events. Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing. Springer. 2013
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software