Publications & Reports | Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center

Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States

Published in: 2016 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Wildfire

Meddens, A. J. H., C. A. Kolden, and J. A. Lutz. 2016. Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment 186:275–285.

Reconstructing semi-arid wetland surface water dynamics through spectral mixture analysis of a time series of Landsat satellite images

Published in: 2016 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Wetlands, Water

Halabisky, M., L. M. Moskal, A. Gillespie, and M. Hannam. 2016. Reconstructing semi-arid wetland surface water dynamics through spectral mixture analysis of a time series of Landsat satellite images (1984–2011). Remote Sensing of Environment 177:171–183.

Statistical correction of lidar-derived digital elevation models with multispectral airborne imagery in tidal marshes

Published in: 2016 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Wetlands, Oceans and Coasts

Buffington, K. J., B. D. Dugger, K. M. Thorne, and J. Y. Takekawa. 2016. Statistical correction of lidar-derived digital elevation models with multispectral airborne imagery in tidal marshes. Remote Sensing of Environment 186:616–625.

Multi-temporal LiDAR and Landsat quantification of fire-induced changes to forest structure

Published in: 2017 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Wildfire, Forests

McCarley, T. R., C. A. Kolden, N. M. Vaillant, A. T. Hudak, A. M. S. Smith, B. M. Wing, B. S. Kellogg, and J. Kreitler. 2017. Multi-temporal LiDAR and Landsat quantification of fire-induced changes to forest structure. Remote Sensing of Environment 191:419–432.

Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org

Published in: 2018 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Water, Plants

Hausner, M. B., J. L. Huntington, C. Nash, C. Morton, D. J. McEvoy, D. S. Pilliod, K. C. Hegewisch, B. Daudert, J. T. Abatzoglou, and G. Grant. 2018. Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org. Ecological Engineering 120:432–440.

Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive

Published in: 2016 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Water

Huntington, J., K. McGwire, C. Morton, K. Snyder, S. Peterson, T. Erickson, R. Niswonger, R. Carroll, G. Smith, and R. Allen. 2016. Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Environment 185:186–197.

Springs as hydrologic refugia in a changing climate? A remote-sensing approach

Published in: 2018 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Water

Cartwright, J., and H. M. Johnson. 2018. Springs as hydrologic refugia in a changing climate? A remote-sensing approach. Ecosphere 9:e02155.

Empirical methods for remote sensing of nitrogen in drylands may lead to unreliable interpretation of ecosystem function

Published in: 2019 | Research Themes: Remote Sensing, Grasslands, Plants

Dashti, H., N.F. Glenn, S. Ustin, J.J. Mitchell, Y. Qi, N.T. Ilangakoon, A.N. Flores, J.L. Silvan-Cardenas, K. Zhao, L.P. Spaete, and M.A. de Graaff. 2019. Empirical methods for remote sensing of nitrogen in drylands may lead to unreliable interpretation of ecosystem function. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 57:3993-4004.