Projects


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Current Projects


Ag 20/20: Detection of cotton stress using remote sensing.

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs in the Hawaiian Islands
Ecological and Economic Influences on Small-scale Tropical Rainforest Succession: A Remote Sensing Approach
SERDP: Detection of invasive weeds on military bases and camps.
Leafy spurge detection
Vineyards: Detection of grapevine canopy parameters using remote sensing.



Landscape Ecology

Rainfall Interception by Sacramento's Urban Forest (1998)

Forest Distribution and Topographic Features -- A Cell-Based Modeling Application (1994)

Geobotany:  Vegetation Mapping for Earth Sciences. (1998)

Connections among Canopy Biochemistry, Foliar Reflectance and Remote Sensing Hyperspectral Images (1994)

Remote Sensing Using Multi-spectral, Multi-angle Polarized POLDER Data (1992-1998) Five articles

Remote Sensing of Ecological Processes: A Strategy for Developing and Testing Ecological Models Using Spectral Mixture Analysis: HTML Format and PDF Format

Landscape Structure is an Integrated Measure of Earth System Response to Climate Change (1995-1998)

Multitemporal Diurnal AVIRIS Images of a Forested Ecosystem (1992)

Scaling Up from Leaf to Stands: Coupling Ecophysiological Models with Remote Sensing (1997)

Opportunities for Using the EOS Imaging Spectrometers and Synthetic Aperture Radar in Ecological Models (1991)

Remote Sensing Projects in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA (1992-1998) Ten articles

Walnut Orchard Studies at the UC Kearney Agricultural Center (1988-1993) Seven articles 

Remote Sensing of Salt Marshes in California (1984-1997) Six articles

The Future of Remote Sensing in Ecological Studies (1991): HTML Format and PDF Format

Remote Sensing Projects at Jasper Ridge, CA (1992 -1997) Nine articles

Vegetation in deserts (1990) 
I. A regional measure of abundances from multispectral images
II. Environmental influences on regional abundance

Landscape Ecology of the Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area, Nepal

Discriminating semiarid vegetation using airborne imaging spectrometer data: a preliminary assessment (1987)

Simulation of Below-Canopy Irradiance at the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility

Thematic mapper studies of semiarid shrub communities (1986)

Mapping the Land Surface for Global Atmosphere-Biosphere Models (1995)

Relationships between sunfleck dynamics and red fir seedling distribution (1984)


Environmental Hazards and Disaster Response

Fire-Related Remote Sensing Projects (1993-1998) Six articles

Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Mine Site Location and Environmental Hazards Classification (1996)

Chevron Hyperspectral Brochure and White Paper (1998)

Soil Erosion Mitigation Library (1996)

Monitoring Vegetation Encroachment Along Electric Power Transmission and Delivery Lines With Remote Sensing Techniques (1998)    


Leaf Anatomy and Canopy Studies

Vegetation Mapping of Forested Ecosystems in Interior Central Alaska (1998)
1994 Version

Image Registration by Non-linear Wavelet Compression and Singular Value Decomposition (1997)

Diurnal reflectance changes in vegetation observed with AVIRIS (1998)

Modeling of Leaf Anatomy and Properties (Includes PROSPECT Models and 3-D Models, 1993-1997) Eight articles 

Robust spatial and spectral feature extraction for multispectral imagery (1998)

Using Foreground / Background Analysis to Determine Leaf and Canopy Chemistry (1995)

Robust feature extraction for hyperspectral imagery using both spatial and spectral redundancies (1998)

Projects at the UC Stebbins Cold Canyon Preserve (1992-1995) Four articles 

Heterogeneity of Savanna Canopy Structure and Function from Imaging Spectrometry and Inverse Modeling (1998)

Effects of Ozone Exposures on the Spectra of Foliage of Loblolly Pine (1991)

Sources of Variability in Plant Canopy Hyperspectral Data in a Savanna Ecosystem (1998)

Large scale ecosystem modeling using parameters derived from imaging spectrometer data (1990)

Biophysical and Biochemical Sources of Variability in Canopy Reflectance (1998)

Parameters affecting reflectance of coniferous forests in the region of chlorophyll pigment absorption (1989)

Investigating The Relationship Between Liquid Water and Leaf Area in Clonal Populus (1998)

Anisotropy of thermal infrared exitance in sunflower canopies (1989)

Investigation of Leaf Biochemistry by Hierarchical Foreground/ Background Analysis (1998)  


Agriculture

Ag 20/20 (2001)

Multivariate Statistical Classification of Soil Spectra (1996)

Use of Low Altitude AVIRIS Data for Identifying Salt Affected Soil Surfaces in Western Fresno County, California (1999)

The Effects of Global Warming on Evapotranspiration and Alfalfa Production in California (1996)

Proceedings of the Workshop on Remote Sensing for Agriculture in the 21st Century (1997)

High Spectral Resolution Spectrophotometry for Classification of Soils and Vegetation

Quantifying the Agricultural Landscape (1998)

Vegetation and biochemical indices retrieved from a multitemporal AVIRIS data set (1993)

Developing Site-Specific Farming Information for Cropping Systems in California (1997)

Multitemporal AVIRIS Images of forested anagricultural units in southern Germany (1993)


Hydrology and Watershed Assessment

SPLASH: Simulator for Processes on Landscapes: Surface/subsurface Hydrology

Modeling Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem Responses into Hydrologic Regime in a California Watershed (1996)

A Spatial and Temporal Continuous Surface-Subsurface Hydrologic Model (1996)

Pesticide Occurrence in Groundwater in Tulare County, California (1996)

Remote Sensing and GIS for Rapid Regional Watershed Assessment and Erosion Potential Monitoring