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Peer Reviewed Publications

2025

Filippelli, S.K., Vogeler, J.C., Mauro, F., Coetsee, C., Fekety, P.A., McHale, M., & Bunn., D. In Review. Tracking savanna woody structure by extension of space-borne lidar metrics with radar and optical imagery across the Greater Kruger National Park region, South Africa. Science of Remote Sensing. (pre-print https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.16.664478)

Fekety, P.A., Vogeler, J.C., Filippelli, S.K., & Nelson, M.D. (2025). Forest disturbance attribution and sensitivity to harvest detection with Landsat in the Greak Lakes region, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 595, p.123039. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1lVkJ_8cEVTqL3

Vicini, M., Vogeler, J., Fornwalt, P., & Stevens-Rumann, C. (2025). Bird Communities Follow Alternate Recovery Trajectories Two Decades after Wildfire. Forest Ecology and Management, 596(15). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123058
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Cardenas-Ritzert, O.S., Shah Heydari, S., Rode, D.T., Filippelli, S., Laituri, M., McHale, M.R. and Vogeler, J. (2025). The Role of Data Selection in Mapping Urban Green and Open Spaces: A Comparison Across High and Very-High Resolution Satellite Imagery Sources in Two African Cities. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 6, p.1625373.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2025.1625373

Laituri, M., Cardenas-Ritzert, O., Vogeler, J., Shah Heydari, S. and McHale, M. (2025). The last urban frontier-Assessing hotspots of urban change associated with LCLUC in Africa. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 7, p.1529440.  https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2025.1529440

2024

Cardenas-Ritzert, O.S., Vogeler, J.C., Shah Heydari, S., Fekety, P.A., Laituri, M. and McHale, M.R. (2024). Effects of Land Use Data Spatial Resolution on SDG Indicator 11.3. 1 (Urban Expansion) Assessments: A Case Study Across Ethiopia. Sustainability, 16(22), p.9698.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su16229698

Schleeweis, K., Drohan, J., Megown, K., Ruefenacht, B., Ryerson, D. and Vogeler, J. (2024). A brief history of trees: The National Land Cover Database Tree Canopy Cover data now available annually. Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 69. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 13 p., 69. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/68706

Barry, B., Holbrook, J., Vogeler, J., Elliott, L., Weldy, M., Lesmeister, D., Epps, C., Wilson, T., & Vierling, K. (2024). Using spaceborne LiDAR to reveal drivers of animal demography. Ecological Applications, p.e3048. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3048
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Bonney, M.T., He, Y., Vogeler, J., Conway, T., & Kaye, E. (2024). Mapping canopy cover for municipal forestry monitoring: Using free Landsat imagery and machine learning.  Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, p.128490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128490
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Elliott, L.H., Vierling, K.T., Holbrook, J.D., Barry, B., & Vogeler, J.C. (2024). Using GEDI data fusions to map keystone cavity excavator distributions and associated biodiversity hotspots in the Marine West Coast Forest ecoregion, USA. Environmental Research Letters (GEDI for Biodiversity Special Issue), 19(9), p.094027.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad64eb

Shah Heydari, S., Vogeler, J.C., Cardenas-Ritzert, O., Filippelli, S.K., McHale, M., & Laituri, M. (2024). Multi-tier land use and land cover mapping framework and its application in urbanization analysis in three African countries. Remote Sensing, 16(14), 2677. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16142677

Cardenas-Ritzert, O.S.E., Vogeler, J.C., Shah Heydari, S., Fekety, P.A., Laituri, M., McHale, M. (2024). Automated Geospatial Approach for Assessing SDG Indicator 11.3.1: A Multi-Level Evaluation of Urban Land Use Expansion across Africa. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf., 13, 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13070226

Eastburn, J.F., Campbell, M.J., Dennison, P.E., Anderegg, W.R.L., Barrett, K.J., Fekety, P.A., Flake, S.W., Huffman, D.W., Kannenberg, S.A., Kerr, K.L, Sánchez Meador, A.J., & Vogeler, J.C. (2024). Ecological and climatic transferability of airborne lidar-driven aboveground biomass models in Piñon-Juniper woodlands. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 61(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2024.2363577

Campbell, M.J., Eastburn, J.F., Dennison, P.E., Vogeler, J.C., & Stovall, A.E.L. (2024).  Evaluating the performance of airborne and spaceborne lidar for mapping biomass in the United States’ largest dryland woodland ecosystem. Remote Sensing of Environment, 208, p.114196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114196

Filippelli, S.K., Schleeweis K., Nelson, M.D., Fekety, P.A., & Vogeler, J.C. (2024). Testing temporal transferability of remote sensing models for large area monitoring. Science of Remote Sensing, 9, p. 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2024.100119

Hanna, L., Tinkham, W.T., Battaglia, M.A., Vogeler, J.C., Ritter, S.M., & Hoffman, C.M. (2024). Characterizing Heterogeneous Forest Structure via UAS-Derived Structure from Motion Methods. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(6), p.530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12703-1

Menick, C., Tinkham, W., Hoffman, C., Vanderhoof, M., Vogeler, J. (2024). Snow-cover remote sensing of conifer tree recovery in high-severity burn patches. Remote Sensing of Environment, 305, p.114114. ​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114114

2023

Schultz, E.L., Filippelli, S.K., Vogeler, J.C., and Shriver, R.K. (2023). Density-dependent dynamics help explain the simultaneous expansion and decline of woodlands in the western US. Forest Ecology and Management, 546, p. 121359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121359

McEachran, Z.P., Reese, G.C., Karwan, D.L., Slesak, R.A. and Vogeler, J. (2023). Effects of forest disturbance on water yield and peak flow in low‐relief glaciated catchments assessed with Bayesian parameter estimation. Hydrological Processes, 37(8), p.e14956. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14956

Berini, J., Runck, B., Vogeler, J., Fox, D.L., & Forester, J.  (2023). Estimates of woody biomass and mixed effects improve isoscape predictions across a northern mixed forest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, p.1060689. ​https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1060689
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Vogeler, J.C., Fekety, P.A., Swayze, N.C., Filippelli, S.K., Barry, B., Elliot, L., Holbrook, J.D., & Vierling, K.T. (2023). Evaluating GEDI data fusions for continuous characterizations of forest wildlife habitat. Frontiers in Remote Sensing: Women in Remote Sensing Special Issue (Invited), 4, p.1196554. ​https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2023.1196554

2022  

Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D. M., Hancock, S., Healey, S. et al [including Fekety, P.A.]. (2022). Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112845 

Filippelli, S. K., Sloggy, M. R., Vogeler, J. C., Manning, D. T., Goemans, C., & Senay, G. B. (2022). Remote sensing of field-scale irrigation withdrawals in the central Ogallala aquifer region. Agricultural Water Management, 271, 107764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107764 

Mauro, F., Monleon, V. J., Gray, A. N., Kuegler, O., Temesgen, H., Hudak, A. T., Fekety, P. A., & Yang, Z. (2022). Comparison of Model-Assisted Endogenous Poststratification Methods for Estimation of Above-Ground Biomass Change in Oregon, USA. Remote Sensing, 14(23), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14236024 

Ojima, D. S., DeFries, R. S., Goward, S. N., Hansen, A., Hansen, M. C., Loveland, T., Skole, D., & Vogeler, J. (2022). Landsat@50. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(6), 340–342. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2541 

Smith, A. B., Vogeler, J. C., Bjornlie, N. L., Squires, J. R., Swayze, N. C., & Holbrook, J. D. (2022). Spaceborne LiDAR and animal-environment relationships: An assessment for forest carnivores and their prey in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management, 520, 120343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120343 

Swayze, N. C., Tinkham, W. T., Creasy, M. B., Vogeler, J. C., Hoffman, C. M., & Hudak, A. T. (2022). Influence of UAS Flight Altitude and Speed on Aboveground Biomass Prediction. Remote Sensing, 14(9), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14091989 

Wei, L., Zhou, H., Hudak, A. T., Link, T. E., Marshall, A., Kavanagh, K. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Jain, T. B., Byrne, J. C., Denner, R., Fekety, P. A., Sandquist, J., Yu, X., & Marshall, J. D. (2022). White pine blister rust, logging, and species replacement increased streamflow in a montane watershed in the northern Rockies, USA. Journal of Hydrology, 612, 128230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128230

2021
 

Creasy, M. B., Tinkham, W. T., Hoffman, C. M., & Vogeler, J. C. (2021). Potential for individual tree monitoring in ponderosa pine dominated forests using unmanned aerial system structure from motion point clouds. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(8), 1093–1105. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0433

Mauro, F., Hudak, A. T., Fekety, P. A., Frank, B., Temesgen, H., Bell, D. M., Gregory, M. J., & McCarley, T. R. (2021). Regional Modeling of Forest Fuels and Structural Attributes Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data in Oregon. Remote Sensing, 13(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13020261 

Temesgen, H., Mauro, F., Hudak, A. T., Frank, B., Monleon, V., Fekety, P., Palmer, M., & Bryant, T. (2021). Using Fay–Herriot Models and Variable Radius Plot Data to Develop a Stand-Level Inventory and Update a Prior Inventory in the Western Cascades, OR, United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.745916 
 
2020 

Fekety, P. A., Crookston, N. L., Hudak, A. T., Filippelli, S. K., Vogeler, J. C., & Falkowski, M. J. (2020). Hundred year projected carbon loads and species compositions for four National Forests in the northwestern USA. Carbon Balance and Management, 15(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-020-00140-9 

Filippelli, S. K., Falkowski, M. J., Hudak, A. T., Fekety, P. A., Vogeler, J. C., Khalyani, A. H., Rau, B. M., & Strand, E. K. (2020). Monitoring pinyon-juniper cover and aboveground biomass across the Great Basin. Environmental Research Letters, 15(2), 025004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6785 

Filippelli, S. K., Vogeler, J. C., Falkowski, M. J., & Meneguzzo, D. M. (2020). Monitoring conifer cover: Leaf-off lidar and image-based tracking of eastern redcedar encroachment in central Nebraska. Remote Sensing of Environment, 248, 111961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111961 

Hudak, A. T., Fekety, P. A., Kane, V. R., Kennedy, R. E., Filippelli, S. K., Falkowski, M. J., Tinkham, W. T., Smith, A. M. S., Crookston, N. L., Domke, et al. (2020). A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 095003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab93f9 

Reinhardt, J. R., Filippelli, S., Falkowski, M., Allred, B., Maestas, J. D., Carlson, J. C., & Naugle, D. E. (2020). Quantifying Pinyon-Juniper Reduction within North America’s Sagebrush Ecosystem. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 73(3), 420–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2020.01.002 

Vogeler, J. C., Slesak, R. A., Fekety, P. A., & Falkowski, M. J. (2020). Characterizing over Four Decades of Forest Disturbance in Minnesota, USA. Forests, 11(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11030362 

2019

Lesmeister, D. B., Sovern, S. G., Davis, R. J., Bell, D. M., Gregory, M. J., & Vogeler, J. C. (2019). Mixed-severity wildfire and habitat of an old-forest obligate. Ecosphere, 10(4), e02696. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2696 

Mangan, A. O., Chestnut, T., Vogeler, J. C., Breckheimer, I. K., King, W. M., Bagnall, K. E., & Dugger, K. M. (2019). Barred Owls reduce occupancy and breeding propensity of Northern Spotted Owl in a Washington old-growth forest. The Condor, 121(3), duz031. https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/duz031 
 
2018 

Bae, S., Müller, J., Lee, D., Vierling, K. T., Vogeler, J. C., Vierling, L. A., Hudak, A. T., Latifi, H., & Thorn, S. (2018). Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are oppositely associated to productivity and heterogeneity in temperate forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 215, 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.031 

Vogeler, J. C., Braaten, J. D., Slesak, R. A., & Falkowski, M. J. (2018). Extracting the full value of the Landsat archive: Inter-sensor harmonization for the mapping of Minnesota forest canopy cover (1973–2015). Remote Sensing of Environment, 209, 363–374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.046 

2016 

Kline, J. D., Harmon, M. E., Spies, T. A., Morzillo, A. T., Pabst, R. J., McComb, B. C., Schnekenburger, F., Olsen, K. A., Csuti, B., & Vogeler, J. C. (2016). Evaluating carbon storage, timber harvest, and habitat possibilities for a Western Cascades (USA) forest landscape. Ecological Applications, 26(7), 2044–2059. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1358 

Vogeler, J. C. and Cohen, W. B. (2016). A review of the role of active remote sensing and data fusion for characterizing forest in wildlife habitat models. Revista de Teledetección, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.4995/raet.2016.3981 

Vogeler, J. C., Yang, Z., & Cohen, W. B. (2016a). Mapping post-fire habitat characteristics through the fusion of remote sensing tools. Remote Sensing of Environment, 173, 294–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.011 

Vogeler, J. C., Yang, Z., & Cohen, W. B. (2016b). Mapping Suitable Lewis’s Woodpecker Nesting Habitat in a Post-Fire Landscape. Northwest Science, 90(4), 421–432. https://doi.org/10.3955/046.090.0404 
 
2015 

Lorenz, T. J., Vierling, K. T., Vogeler, J., Lonneker, J., & Aycrigg, J. (2015). Incorporating Shrub and Snag Specific LiDAR Data into GAP Wildlife Models. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, 6(2), 437–447. https://doi.org/10.3996/092013-JFWM-064 
 
2014 

Vierling, K. T., Swift, C. E., Hudak, A. T., Vogeler, J. C., & Vierling, L. A. (2014). How much does the time lag between wildlife field-data collection and LiDAR-data acquisition matter for studies of animal distributions? A case study using bird communities. Remote Sensing Letters, 5(2), 185–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2014.891773 

Vogeler, J. C., Hudak, A. T., Vierling, L. A., Evans, J., Green, P., & Vierling, K. T. (2014). Terrain and vegetation structural influences on local avian species richness in two mixed-conifer forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 147, 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.006 
 
2013 

Vogeler, J. C., Hudak, A. T., Vierling, L. A., & Vierling, K. T. (2013). Lidar-Derived Canopy Architecture Predicts Brown Creeper Occupancy of Two Western Coniferous Forests. The Condor, 115(3), 614–622. https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2013.110082 

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