Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Paul E Gessler Professor of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Ecology

Positions

Participating Faculty, Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI)
Professor, Forest, Rangeland & Fire Sciences , College of Natural Resources
Research Faculty, Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem , University of Idaho

Research Areas

Big data (LCSH)
Cyberinfrastructure (LCSH)
Data mining (LCSH)
Ecology (LCSH)
Geospatial data (LCSH)
Remote sensing (LCSH)
Soil science (LCSH)

Geographic Focus

Australia and New Zealand Continent
United States of America Country

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Precision of Headwater Stream Permanence Estimates from a Monthly Water Balance Model in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Water. 14. 2022
- Bridging the gap: Using Reservoir Ecology and Human Serosurveys to estimate Lassa Virus Spillover in West Africa. PLOS Computational Biology. 17:e1008811. 2021
- The Influence of Climate Variability on the Accuracy of NHD Perennial and Nonperennial Stream Classifications. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2020
- Building an Open Science Framework to Model Soil Organic Carbon. Journal of Environmental Quality. 47:726-734. 2018
- A service-based framework for the OAIS model for earth science data management. Earth Science Informatics. 2017
- Distribution and Properties of Podzolized Soils in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 80:1308-1316. 2016
- Land use/land cover change detection and prediction in the north-western coastal desert of Egypt using Markov-CA. Applied Geography. 63:101-112. 2015
- The application of ensemble techniques for land-cover classification in arid lands. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 36:5613-5636. 2015
- Examining Soil Parent Material Influence Over Douglas-Fir Stem Growth Response to Fertilization: Taking Advantage of Information from Spatiotemporally Distributed Experiments. Forest Ecology and Management. 286:101-107. 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
- Terrain Attribute Modeling of Volcanic Ash Distributions in Northern Idaho. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 76:179-187. 2012
- Spatiotemporal Relationships between Climate and Whitebark Pine Mortality in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Forest Science. 57:320-335. 2011
- The multispectral separability of Costa Rican rainforest types with support vector machines and Random Forest decision trees. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 31:2885-2909. 2010
- 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
- Flatland in flames: a two-dimensional crown fire propagation model. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 18:527-535. 2009
- Characterizing forest succession with lidar data: An evaluation for the Inland Northwest, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113:946-956. 2009
- DEM Production Methods and Sources. Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications. 33:65-85. 2009
- Landscape-Scale Environmental and Floristic Variation in Costa Rican Old-Growth Rain Forest Remnants. Biotropica. 41:16-26. 2009
- Preparation of DEMs for Geomorphometric Analysis. Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications. 33:87-120. 2009
- Quantifying successional rates in western aspen woodlands: Current conditions, future predictions. Forest Ecology and Management. 257:1705-1715. 2009
- Sensitivity of Ground-Based Remote Sensing Estimates of Wheat Chlorophyll Content to Variation in Soil Reflectance. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 73:1715-1723. 2009
- The Future of Geomorphometry. Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications. 33:637-652. 2009
- The design and the development of a hyperspectral and multispectral airborne mapping system. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 64:184-192. 2009
- Combined Spectral Index to Improve Ground-Based Estimates of Nitrogen Status in Dryland Wheat. Agronomy Journal. 100:1694-1702. 2008
- Development of a Landsat time series for application in forest status assessment in the Inland Northwest United States. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 23:53-62. 2008
- Integrating Landsat TM and SRTM-DEM derived variables with decision trees for habitat classification and change detection in complex neotropical environments. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:2145-2159. 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
- Using in-situ measurements to evaluate the new RapidEye (TM) satellite series for prediction of wheat nitrogen status. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28:4183-4190. 2007
- Pedogenesis-terrain links in zero-order watersheds after chaparral to grass vegetation conversion. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 70:2065-2074. 2006
- Spatially and temporally distributed modeling of landslide susceptibility. Geomorphology. 80:178-198. 2006
- Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Active Fire and Post-Fire Effects. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 15:319-345. 2006
- Suitability of existing and novel spectral indices to remotely detect water stress in Populus spp.. Forest Ecology and Management. 229:170-182. 2006
- An heuristic approach for mapping landslide hazard by integrating fuzzy logic with analytic hierarchy process. Control and Cybernetics. 35:121-146. 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
- Wavelet estimation of plant spatial patterns in multitemporal aerial photography. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 27:2049-2054. 2006
- Characterizing and mapping forest fire fuels using ASTER imagery and gradient modeling. Forest Ecology and Management. 217:129-146. 2005
- Evaluation of novel thermally enhanced spectral indices for mapping fire perimeters and comparisons with fire atlas data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26:4801-4808. 2005
- The relationship between effective plant area index and Landsat spectral response across elevation, solar insolation, and spatial scales in a northern Idaho forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34:465-480. 2004
- Spatially explicit treatment of soil-water dynamics along a semiarid catena. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 66:1571-1583. 2002
- Modeling soil-landscape and ecosystem properties using terrain attributes. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 64:2046-2056. 2000
conference paper
- Potential for boom - mounted remote sensing applications in seedling quality monitoring. Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations. 48-51. 2009
conference poster
- Northwest Knowledge Network: Knowledge from Data 2012

Research

principal investigator on

CC-NIE: Networking Infrastructure: Enhancing Network Capabilities to Foster Big Data Science at the University of Idaho awarded by NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) 2013 - 2014

co-principal investigator on

investigator on

Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture awarded by National Institute for Food and Agriculture 2011 - 2014

other research activities

Teaching

advisees

faculty mentoring relationship
- Ma, Marshall (Xiaogang)

Contact

full name

Paul E Gessler