ForestPARC                                   
The Forestry Remote Sensing Outreach Program                                    
ForestPARC Success Stories                                     

May 2004:

The 1st Annual ForestPARC workshop was held in 17-19th May in Moscow, Idaho. This workshop was organized to demonstrate to land managers amd the community the uses of light detecton and ranging (Lidar) data in forestry. The workshop was attended by National experts with Keynote talks by Michael Lefsky and Ross Nelson.



This meeting included Vendor presentations and particpation by fedearal researchers within the USDA Forest Service, the United States Geological Survey; in addtion to University, tribal, and private researchers.

Although no proceedings were generated for this workshop pdf presentations of the contributions are available via the following Link.



May 2005:

For the 2nd Annual ForestPARC workshop; ForestPARC co-sponsered a workshop with the USDA Forest Service's Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC).

This workshop was entitled, ' Lidar Concepts & Resource Applications', and was held on 17-19th May 2005 at the Salt Lake City Public Library.

The workshop involved over 100 persons, including university researchers, forest service managers and researchers, students, and lidar vendors

This workshop included an Expert Panel Discussion, Vendor presentations, and Breakout sessions. The presentations of this workshop are available on a CD-ROM from RSAC.



April 2006:

We coordinated with the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) Eleventh Biennial Conference and had an afternoon post-fire session focusing on the 'Mapping and Monitoring of Burn Severity'.

The panel contained a representative cross-section of researchers and managers, including: Caty Clifton, Colin Hardy, Randy McKinley, Annette Parsons, Brian Schwind, Henry Shovic, and Dean Sirucek


Publications and Reports:

In press:

Falkowski, M.J., Smith, A.M.S., Hudak, A.T., Gessler, P.E., Vierling, L.A. and Crookston, N.L., in press. Automated estimation of individual conifer tree height and crown diameter via Two-dimensional spatial wavelet analysis of lidar data, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Chen, X. and Vierling, L. in press. Spectral mixture analyses of hyperspectral data acquired using a tethered balloon. Remote Sensing of Environment

Strand, E., Smith A.M.S., Bunting, S.C., Vierling, L.A., Hann, D.B., and Gessler, P.E., in press., Wavelet estimation of plant spatial patterns in multi-temporal aerial photography, International Journal of Remote Sensing

Vierling, L., Fersdahl, M., Chen, X., and Zimmerman, P. in press . The Short Wave Aerostat-Mounted Imager (SWAMI): A novel platform for acquiring remotely sensed data from a tethered balloon. Remote Sensing of Environment

2006:

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. (PDF)

2005:

Chen, X., Vierling, L.A., and Deering, D.W. 2005 A simple and effective radiometeric correction method to improve landscape change detection across sensors and across time. Remote Sensing of Environment, 98, 63-79.

Falkowski, M.J., Gessler, P.E., Morgan, P., Hudak, A.T. and Smith, A.M.S., 2005, Evaluating ASTER satellite imagery and gradient modeling for mapping and characterizing wildland fire fuels, Forest Ecology and Management, 217, 129-146.

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. 

Holden, Z.A, Morgan, P., Smith, A.M.S., Rollins, M,G. and Gessler, P.E., 2005, 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. (PDF).

Toomey, M. and Vierling, L. 2005. Multispectral remote sensing of landscape level foliar moisture: techniques and applications for forest ecosystem monitoring. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1087-1097.

Smith, A.M.S. and Hudak, A.T., 2005, Estimating combustion of large downed woody debris from residual white ash, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 245-248.

Smith, A.M.S. and Wooster, M.J., 2005, Remote classification of head and backfire types from MODIS fire radiative power observations, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 249-254.

Smith, A.M.S, Wooster, M.J, Drake, N., Dipostso, F., Falkowski, M. and Hudak, A.T., 2005. Testing the Potential of Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing for Retrospectively Estimating Fire Severity in African Savanna Environments, Remote Sensing of Environment, 97, 1, 92-115.

Smith, A.M.S., Wooster, M.J., Drake, N.A., Perry, G.L.W. and Dipotso, F.M., 2005, Fire in African savanna: Testing the impact of incomplete combustion on pyrogenic emissions estimates, Ecological Applications, 15, 1074-1082

Zimmerman, P.R., Price, M., Peng, C., Capehart, W.J., Updegraff, K., Kozak, P., Vierling, L., Baker, E., Kopp, F., Duke, G., and Das, C. 2005. C-Lock (patent pending): a system for estimating and certifying carbon emission reduction credits for the sequestration of soil carbon on agricultural land. Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Global Change, 10: 307-331

2004:

Chen, X., Vierling, L., Rowell, E., and DeFelice, T. 2004. Using lidar and effective LAI data to evaluate IKONOS and Landsat 7 ETM+ vegetation cover estimates in a ponderosa pine forest. Remote Sensing of Environment, 91(1): 14-26. 

Gorsevski PV, Gessler PE, 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.

Harley, P., Vasconcellos, P., Vierling, L., Cleomir de S. Pinheiro, C., Greenberg, J., Guenther, A., Klinger, L., Soares de Almeida, S., Neill, D., Baker, T., Phillips, O., and Malhi, Y.R. 2004. Variation in potential for isoprene emissions among Neotropical forest sites. Global Change Biology, 10: 1–21. 

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. 

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. 

Vierling, L., Frykholm, J., and Glasson, G. 2004. The Earth Systems Connections Elementary Curriculum. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA publication number EC-2004-03-004-HQ.