selected publications

• journal article

  • Designing an Observing System to Study the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) of the Earth in the 2020s.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2022
  • A Camera-Based Method for Collecting Rapid Vegetation Data to Support Remote-Sensing Studies of Shrubland Biodiversity.  Remote Sensing. 2022
  • Fires that matter: reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment.  Environmental Research Letters. 2022
  • Systematic Integration of Applications into the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Earth Mission Architecture Study.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2022
  • Wicked Problems Need WKID Innovation Innovation as a Process to Develop a Disruptive Technology Product.  Research Technology Management: international journal of research management. 39-47. 2021
  • Diverse biosphere influence on carbon and heat in mixed urban Mediterranean landscape revealed by high resolution thermal and optical remote sensing.  Science of the Total Environment. 2021
  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 2021
  • Comparison of Thermal Infrared-Derived Maps of Irrigated and Non-Irrigated Vegetation in Urban and Non-Urban Areas of Southern California.  Remote Sensing. 2020
  • Evaluating the potential of LiDAR data for fire damage assessment: A radiative transfer model approach.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 2020
  • A Simplified Framework for High-Resolution Urban Vegetation Classification with Optical Imagery in the Los Angeles Megacity.  Remote Sensing. 2020
  • Satellite hydrology observations as operational indicators of forecasted fire danger across the contiguous United States.  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 1097-1106. 2020
  • Introducing Spatially Distributed Fire Danger from Earth Observations (FDEO) Using Satellite-Based Data in the Contiguous United States.  Remote Sensing. 2020
  • A Quantitative Framework to Inform Cloud Data System Architecture and Services Requirements Based on User Needs and Expected Demand.  IEEE Access. 138088-138101. 2020
  • Flux towers in the sky: global ecology from space.  New Phytologist. 570-584. 2019
  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of fire: State-of-the-art and future perspectives.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 105-121. 2018
  • Imaging spectrometer emulates Landsat: A case study with Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) and Operational Land Imager (OLI) data.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 157-169. 2018
  • Deconstructing the King megafire.  Ecological Applications. 1565-1580. 2018
  • Workshop on Using NASA Data for Time-Sensitive Applications.  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 52-58. 2017
  • ISS observations offer insights into plant function.  Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2017
  • THEO concept mission: Testing the Habitability of Enceladus's Ocean.  Advances in Space Research. 1117-1137. 2016
  • Assessing fire severity using imaging spectroscopy data from the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) and comparison with multispectral capabilities.  Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal. 153-163. 2014
  • The climate-wildfire-air quality system: interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change. 719-733. 2014
  • Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous Western United States.  Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change. 455-468. 2014
  • Smoke consequences of new wildfire regimes driven by climate change.  Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management. 35-59. 2014
  • Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA.  International Journal of Wildland Fire. 899-914. 2014
  • Photoelectrons as a tool to evaluate spectral variations in solar EUV irradiance over solar cycle timescales.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2009