Experience & Education:
- Associate Professor of Remote Sensing & Geospatial Ecology, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, 2003-present
- Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing & GIS, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, 1997-2003
- Affiliate Faculty, Centro Agronmico Tropical de Investigacin y Enseanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica, 2001-present
- Co-director, Natural Resource Ecology & Conservation Biology Undergraduate Program, University of Idaho, 2002
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, University of California - Santa Barbara, 1996-1997
- Senior Experimental Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) - Division of Land & Water, Canberra, Australia, 1990-1997
- Research Assistant, Environmental Remote Sensing Center, University of Wisconsin, 1988-1990
- Ph.D. Environmental Modeling, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1996
- M.S. Environmental Monitoring (Remote Sensing), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990
- B.S. Natural Resources (Soil Science), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986
Specialty Areas of Interest:
- Remote Sensing & GIS for Forest Ecosystem Analysis & Monitoring
- Soil-landscape Modeling
- Wildland Fire Fuels and Fire Hazard Mapping
- Airborne Sensor Development
- Environmental, Ecosystem and Soil-Landscape Modeling
- Terrain and Watershed Analysis
- Forest Soils
- Spatial Statistics
Courses Taught at University of Idaho:
- Introduction to Geospatial Analysis for Natural Resource Management - Ugrad
- Remote Sensing of the Environment - Ugrad
- Forest Soils - Ugrad
- Spatial & Biophysical Modeling- Grad
- Advanced RS/GIS Research Topics - Grad
Continuing Education or Service Activities:
- Leader, IdahoView Program
- Course instructor: Intro to GPS
- Leader, Inland Northwest Infomart, Raytheon Synergy Program
- Leader, Inland Northwest Remote Sensing Laboratory for Bioregional Analysis - NASA Funded Center of Excellence
- USFS landcover classification and change detection training course
- Idaho representative, Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
Recent and Current Research:
- Remote sensing of forest characteristics for process models
- Development of a forest health/stress index
- Ecosystem modeling on the Sedgwick Natural Reserve
- Effect of topography on soil carbon dynamics
- Incorporation of digital terrain analysis methods for quantitative soil-landscape modeling
Recent Peer Reviewed Publications and Submissions:
Eitel, J., D.S. Long, P.E. Gessler, E.R. Hunt, and D. Brown. Accepted. Sensitivity of ground-based remote sensing estimates of wheat chlorophyll content to variation in soil reflectance. Soil Science Society of America Journal.
Falkowski, M.J., J. Evans, S. Martinuzzi, P.E. Gessler and A.T. Hudak. Accepted. Characterizing forest succession with LiDAR data: an evaluation for the Inland Northwest, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment.
Strand, E.K., L.A. Vierling, S.C Bunting, and P.E. Gessler. Accepted. Quantifying successional rates in western aspen woodlands: Current conditions, future predictions. Forest Ecology and Management.
Dickinson, J., A.Robinson, P.E. Gessler, A.M.S. Smith, and R.J. Harrod. Accepted. Flatland in flames: a more simple canopy fire propagation model. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
Gorsevski, P.V. and P.E. Gessler. Accepted. The design and development of a hyperspectral and multispectral airborne mapping system. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Sesnie, S., B. Finegan, P. Gessler, S. Rajaniemi, and A. Smith. Accepted. The multispectral separability of Costa Rican rain forest composition and structural types with Landsat TM imagery and support vector machines. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Gorsevski P.V., P.E. Gessler and P. Jankowski. In press. Integrating a fuzzy k-means classification and a Bayesian approach for spatial prediction of landslide hazard. In Fischer MM and Getis A (eds), Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis, Springer.
Sesnie, S., B. Finegan, P. Gessler, Z. Ramos. 2009. Landscale-scale environmental and floristic variation in Costa Rican old-growth rain forest remnants. Biotropica. 41(1): 16-26.
Gessler. P.E., R. Pike, T. Hengl, R.A. MacMillan and H.I. Reuter. 2008. The future of geomorphometry. Chapter 28 In: Hengl, T. and H.I. Reuter (eds.) Geomorphometry: concepts, software, applications. Elsevier. page numbers to come.
Nelson, A., H.I. Reuter and Gessler. P.E. 2008. DEM production methods and sources. Chapter 3 In: Hengl, T. and H.I. Reuter (eds.) Geomorphometry: concepts, software, applications. Elsevier.
Reuter, H.I., T. Hengl, P.E. Gessler and P. Soille. 2008. Preparation of DEMs for geomorphometric analysis. Chapter 4 In: Hengl, T. and H.I. Reuter (eds.) Geomorphometry: concepts, software, applications. Elsevier.
Sesnie, S.E., P.E. Gessler, B. Finegan, and S. Thessler. 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. Special Issue: Earth observation for biodiversity and ecology.
Beck, R.N. and P.E. Gessler. 2008. Development of a Landsat time-series for the Inland Northwest and an application in forest status assessment. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 23:1:53-60.
Eitel, J., D. Long, P.E. Gessler, and A.M.S. Smith. 2007. Using in-situ spectroradiometry to evaluate RapidEye satellite data for prediction of wheat nitrogen status. Int. J. Remote Sensing. Vol.28. 18:4183-4190.
Eitel, J.U.H., P.E. Gessler, A.M.S. Smith, and R. Robberecht. 2006. Suitability of Existing NIR and Novel SWIR Spectral Indices to Remotely Detect Water Stress in Populus spp. Forest Ecology and Management. 229:170-182.
Lentile, L.B., Z.A. Holden, A.M.S. Smith, M.J. Falkowski, A.T. Hudak, P. Morgan, P.E. Gessler, N. Bensen, and C.H. Key. 2006. Remote sensing techniques to assess fire and fire effects. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 15:319-345.
Gorsevski, P.V., P.E. Gessler, J. Boll, W.J. Elliot, and R.B. Foltz. 2006. Spatially distributed process modeling of landslide hazard. Geomorphology. 80, 3-4:178-198.
Williamson, T.N., P.E. Gessler, P.J. Shouse, and R.C. Graham. 2006. Links between pedogenesis and terrain attributes in zero-order watersheds four decades after vegetation conversion from chaparral to grass. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 70:2065-2054.
Falkowski, M.J., A.M.S. Smith, A.T. Hudak, P.E. Gessler, L.A. Vierling and N.L. Crookston. 2006. Automated Estimation of Individual Conifer Tree Height and Crown Diameter via Two-dimensional Wavelet Analysis of Lidar Data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 32, 2:153-161.
Gorsevski P.V., Jankowski P., and P.E. Gessler. 2006. Heuristic approach for mapping landslide hazard integrating fuzzy logic with analytic hierarchy process. Control and Cybernetics. 35(1):121-146.
Gorsevski, P.V., P.E. Gessler, R.B. Foltz, and W.J. Elliot. 2006. Spatial prediction of landslide hazard using logistic regression and ROC analysis. Transactions in GIS. 10, 3:395-415.
Hudak, A.T., N.L. Crookston, J.S. Evans, M.J. Falkowski, A.M.S. Smith, P.E. Gessler, and P. Morgan. 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, 2:126-138.
Strand, E.K., A.M.S. Smith, S.C. Bunting, L.A. Vierling, D.B. Hann, and P.E. Gessler. 2006. Wavelet estimation of plant spatial patterns in multi-temporal aerial photography. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 27, 9-10:2049-2054.
Holden, Z.A., A.M.S. Smith, P. Morgan, M.G. Rollins and P.E. Gessler. 2006. Evaluation of novel thermally enhanced spectral indices for mapping fire perimeters and comparisons with fire atlas data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26, 217:4801-4808.
Gorsevski, P.V., P. Jankowski, and P.E. Gessler. 2005. Spatial prediction of landslide hazard using fuzzy K-means and Dempster-Shafer theory. Transactions in GIS. 9(4): 455-474. PDF Link
Falkowski, M.J., P.E. Gessler, P. Morgan, and A.M.S. Smith. 2005. Evaluation of the ASTER sensor for fire fuels mapping in North Idaho. Forest Ecology and Management. 217:129-146. PDF Link
Gorsevski, P.V., Gessler P.E., Jankowski P. 2004. "Spatial prediction of landslide hazard using fuzzy k-means and Bayes Theorem" chapter in W. Widacki, A. Bytnerowicz, and A. Riebau (eds.), 2004, A Message From the Tatra: Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing in Mountain Environmental Research, Jagiellonian University Press: Krakow, Poland, pp 159-172.
Robinson, A.P., A.L. Pocewicz, and P.E. Gessler. 2004. A cautionary note on scaling variables that appear only in products in ordinary least squares. Forest Biometry, Modeling and Information Systems. 1:83-90. PDF link
Pocewicz, A., P.E. Gessler, and A.P. Robinson, 2004. The relationship between leaf 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. PDF link
Gorsevski, P.V., P.E. Gessler, and P. Jankowski, 2003. Integrating a Fuzzy k-means classification and a Bayesian approach for spatial prediction of landslide hazard. Journal of Geographical Systems. 5:223-251. PDF link.
Chamran, F., P.E. Gessler, and O.A. Chadwick, 2002. Spatially Explicit Treatment of Soil-Water Dynamics along a Semiarid Catena. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66:1571-1583. PDF link.
Vert, G., M. Stock, P. Jankowski, and P.E. Gessler. 2002. An architecture for the management of GIS datasets. Transactions in GIS. 6(3):259-275.
Gessler, P.E., O.A. Chadwick, F. Chamron, K. Holmes, and L. Althouse. 2000. Modeling soil-landscape and ecosystem properties using terrain attributes. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64:2046-2056. PDF link
N.J. McKenzie, P.E. Gessler, P.J. Ryan, and D.A. O'Connell. 2000. The role of terrain analysis in soil mapping. In Terrain Analysis: Principles and Applications. J.P. Wilson and J.C. Gallant (Eds.). Chapter 10. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. New York.
Cook, S.E., R.J. Corner, G.J. Grealish, P.E. Gessler, and C.J. Chartres. 1996. A rule based system to map soil properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 60:1983-1900.
Gessler, P.E., N.J. McKenzie, and M.F. Hutchinson. 1996. Progress in soil-landscape modeling and spatial prediction of soil attributes for environmental models. Third International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling. Sante Fe, New Mexico. January 21-26, 1996. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/SANTA_FE_CD-ROM/main.html
Gessler, P.E., I.D. Moore, N.J. McKenzie, and P.J. Ryan. 1995. Soil-landscape modeling and spatial prediction of soil attributes. Special issue: Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, Volume 9, 4:421-432.
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