M. A. Lefsky

Colorado State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications(83), Forest ecology and management(63), Remote Sensing in Agriculture(55), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies(12), Forest Management and Policy(10)

Publications115 total

Maps of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands forest functional groups, biomass, height, and species counts (2001-2008) and satellite image composites (1980-2000)
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2023Open Access
Virgin Islands land cover and forest structure
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2021Open Access
The Case for an Open Water Balance: Re‐envisioning Network Design and Data Analysis for a Complex, Uncertain World
Water Resources Research·2020· 60 citedOpen Access
Dividing the Topographical Advantage of Forestland by Spatial Analysis and the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Journal of Sustainable Forestry·2020· 3 cited
Persistent effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforest canopy structure after 20 yr of isolation
Ecological Applications·2019· 78 citedOpen Access
Comparison and integration of lidar and photogrammetric point clouds for mapping pre-fire forest structure
Remote Sensing of Environment·2019· 55 cited
Rainfall Thresholds for Flow Generation in Desert Ephemeral Streams
Water Resources Research·2018· 49 citedOpen Access
Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals
Remote Sensing·2018· 18 citedOpen Access
Stream Tracker: Crowd sourcing and remote sensing to monitor stream flow intermittence
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2017· 3 cited
Controls on streamflow intermittence in the Colorado Front Range
AGUFM·2017· 1 cited
Predictions of Tropical Forest Biomass and Biomass Growth Based on Stand Height or Canopy Area Are Improved by Landsat-Scale Phenology across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Remote Sensing·2017· 20 citedOpen Access
Landsat-Scale Phenology Detection for Tropical Forest Composition, Structure and Productivity Assessment from Dry to Wet Ecological Zones in Puerto Rico and us Virgin Islands
2016
Differences in Forest Structure and Topography Across Transitions in Burn Severity in the High Park Fire
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2016
Review of studies on tree species classification from remotely sensed data
Remote Sensing of Environment·2016· 961 cited
Spatial Modeling of Lidar-Derived Woody Biomass Estimates Collected Along Transects in a Heterogeneous Savanna Landscape
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing·2016· 7 cited
Abiotic Controls on Macroscale Variations of Humid Tropical Forest Height
Remote Sensing·2016· 15 citedOpen Access
Prospects of the ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission for savanna ecosystem structural studies based on airborne simulation data
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing·2016· 80 cited
Plot-level aboveground woody biomass modeling using canopy height and auxiliary remote sensing data in a heterogeneous savanna
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing·2016· 10 cited
Combining Lidar and Stereo Imagery for Mapping Forest Structure Prior to Wildfire
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2015
Transition of dominant peak flow source from snowmelt to rainfall along the <scp>C</scp>olorado <scp>F</scp>ront <scp>R</scp>ange: Historical patterns, trends, and lessons from the 2013 <scp>C</scp>olorado <scp>F</scp>ront <scp>R</scp>ange floods
Water Resources Research·2015· 78 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Warren B. Cohen(15), Geoffrey G. Parker(10), David J. Harding(10), Sassan Saatchi(5), Steven A. Acker(5), Michael Guzy(5), David P. Turner(4), Steve Van Tuyl(4), B. E. Law(4), Edward T. A. Mitchard(3), Simon L. Lewis(3), Lee White(3), Michael Keller(3), M. O. Hunter(3), Andrew T. Hudak(3), Juliana Schietti(3), S. R. Saleska(3), Stephanie K. Kampf(3), Yong Pang(3), Osbert Jianxin Sun(3)