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Vegetation and Land Cover

Shengli Huang, Christopher Potter, Robert L. Crabtree, Stacey Hager, and Peggy Gross, 2009. Fusing optical and radar data to estimate sagebrush, herbaceous, and bare ground cover in Yellowstone, Remote Sensing of Environment, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2009.09.013.

Alan Swanson, Shengli Huang, and Robert Crabtree, 2009. Using a LiDAR Vegetation Model to Predict UHF SAR Attenuation in Coniferous Forests, Sensors, 9(3), 1559-1573; doi:doi:10.3390/s90301559 (available at http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/3/1559)

Shengli Huang, Robert Crabtree, Chris Potter, and Peggy Gross, 2009. Estimating the quantity and quality of coarse woody debris in Yellowstone's post-fire forest ecosystem from fusion of SAR and optical data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 1926-1938.

Shengli Huang, Robert Crabtree, Alan Swanson, Kerry Halligan, and Josh Harmsen, 2009. Error analysis and correction for extracting the forest height from airborne C-band interferometric SAR and national elevation datasets. International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.

Shengli Huang, Stacey Hager, Kerry Halligan, Ian Fairweather, Alan Swanson, Robert Crabtree, 2009. A comparison of individual tree and forest plot height derived from LiDAR and InSAR. ASPRS Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75(2), 159-167.

Shengli Huang, Florian Siegert, Johann G. Goldammer and Anatoly I. Sukhinin, 2009. Satellite-derived 2003 wildfires in southern Siberia and their potential influence on carbon sequestration, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(6), 1479 – 1492.

Halligan, KQ, Clark ML, Roberts D, Crabtree RL.  2007 (in review).  A Two-scale Local Minima Filter for Tree Height Estimation from 1st Return Small Footprint LiDAR.  Remote Sensing of the Environment.

Crabtree, R. L., Moorcroft, P. R., Saatchi, S. S., Huang, S., Potter, C. S., Sheldon, J. W., and K. Q. Halligan. 2006. Forecasting in the Yellowstone Ecosystem: development of remotely-sensed estimates of vegetation 3-D structure, and disturbance dynamics for initializing, constraining and testing terrestrial biosphere models [Poster]. The Joint Workshop on NASA Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Applied Sciences Research, August 21-25, 2006, Washington, D. C., USA.

Mirik, M., Norland, J. E., Biondini, M. E., Crabtree, R. L., and G. J. Michak. In press. Capacity of one-meter hyperspectral imagery for biomass prediction in a big sagebrush (Artemisia tridantata) dominated area in Yellowstone National Park. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry.

Saatchi, S., Despain, D. G., Halligan, K. Q., and R. L. Crabtree. In press. Estimation of forest fuel load from radar remote sensing. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing.

Roberts, D. A., Clark, M. L., Dennison, P. E., Halligan, K. Q., Natour, B., and G. G. Parker. 2006. LiDAR height measures in tropical and coniferous forests [Poster]. The Joint Workshop on NASA Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecology, and Applied Sciences Research, August 21-25, 2006, Washington, D. C., USA.

Huang, S., R. L. Crabtree, A. Swanson, K. Q. Halligan, L. Jones, and J. Harmsen, 2006a. Canopy height estimation from TOPSAR AIRSAR and National Elevation Datasets. International Journal of Remote Sensing, under review.

Huang, S., R. L. Crabtree, A. Swanson, K. Q. Halligan, L. Jones, and J. Harmsen, 2006a. Canopy height estimation from TOPSAR AIRSAR and National Elevation Datasets. International Journal of Remote Sensing, under review.

Huang, S., F. Siegert, 2006. Land cover classification optimized to detect areas at risk of desertification in North China based on SPOT VEGETATION imagery, Journal of Arid Environment, 67(2), 308-327.

Griffiths, R. P., Madritch, M.D., and A.K. Swanson. 2005. Conifer invasion of forest meadows transforms soil characteristics in the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 208: 347-358.

Mirik, M., Norland, J. E., Crabtree, R. L., and M. E. Biondini. 2005. Hyperspectral one-meter resolution remote sensing in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: I. Forage nutritional values. Rangeland Ecology & Management 58:452-458.

Huang, S., F. Siegert, B. Fruth and G. Hohmann. 2003. Assessment of land cover and land use in the Salonga National Park based on satellite imagery. Poster. International Symposium "Sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity", 1 - 4 December 2003, Berlin.

Mirik, M., Norland, J. E., Crabtree, R. L., and M. E. Biondini. 2005. Hyperspectral one-meter resolution remote sensing in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: II. Biomass. Rangeland Ecology & Management 58:459-465.

Aspinall, R. J. 2002. Use of logistic regression for validation of maps of the spatial distribution of vegetation species derived from high spatial resolution hyperspectral remotely sensed data. Ecological Modelling 157:301-312.

Halligan, K. Q. 2002. Multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis of vegetation in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Stoughton , J. A., and W. A. Marcus. 2000. The persistent impacts of trace metals from mining on grass communities along Soda Butte Creek, Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Management 25:305-320.

Moorcroft, P. R., Lewis, M. A., and R. L. Crabtree. 1999. Home range analysis using a mechanistic home range model. Ecology 80:1656-1665.

 


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