Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Susan L. Ustin

Distinguished Professor of Resource Science

Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources

Associate Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment

Head, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)

Address

University of California, Davis, CA 95616

139 Veihmeyer Hall, LAWR office: (530) 752-0621

119A The Barn, JMIE office: (530) 754-9167

email:  slustin@ucdavis.edu

 

Education

University of California, Davis, Ph.D. Botany, 1983; California State University, Hayward, M.A. Biology, 1978; California State University, Hayward, B.S. Biology, 1974

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999-present Professor of  Environmental Resource Science, Dept. of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis, CA

2011-2018 Vice Chair, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis, CA

2001-present Director, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS)

2001-2006  Director, California Space Institute Remote Sensing of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment

2001-2007 Director, DOE’s Western Regional Center for Global Environmental Change

1995-2001  Associate Director, DOE’s Western Regional Center for Global Environmental Change (WESTGEC), University of California, Davis, CA  95616

1996-1999 Associate Professor of Resource Science, Dept. of L.A.W.R., U.C., Davis, CA 95616

1990-1996 Assistant Professor of Resource Science, Dept. of L.A.W.R., U.C., Davis, CA 95616

 

SELECTED HONORS

2017  – Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2010 – Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004  – Outstanding Service Award, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

2004  – Elected Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

2004 – SERDP Conservation Project of the Year Award

2002 –  Elected Fellow, The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, PANELS AND COMMITTEES (LAST 5 YEARS)

Member, National Research Council, Committee on Earth Studies, Decadal Survey Committee, 2016-2018.

Member, Science, Technology and Education Advisory Committee (STEAC)Advisory Committee on NEON to Battelle, 2016- present.

HyspIRI Science Team and HyspIRI Preparatory Science Team 2007-2018

MODIS Science Team Member, 2004-2008, 2010-2014

 

PUBLICATIONS

Reviewed Publications

232.Huesca, M., D. Riano, S.L. Ustin 2018. Spectral mapping methods applied to Lidar data: application to fuel type mapping. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 74: 159-168.

231. Ustin, S.L. 2019. Biophysical and Biochemical Characterization and Plant Species Studies. forward for second edition, P.S. Thenkabail, J.G. Lyon, A. Huete  Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation, volume 2. Hyperspectral indices and image classifications for Agriculture and Vegetation. CRC press, Taylor & Francis Group.  Page 16.

230. Garcia, M., S. Saatchi, S. Ustin, H. Balzter. 2018.  Modelling forest canopy height by integrating airborne LiDAR samples with satellite Radar and multispectral imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformatiion 66: 159-173.

229. Zhou, K., X. Deng, X. Yao, Y. Tian, W. Cao, Y. Zhu, S.L. Ustin, T. Cheng 2017.  Assessing the spectral properties of sunlit and shaded components in rice canopies with near-ground imaging spectroscopy data.  Sensors 17(3): 578. Doi 10.3390/s17030578.

228. Fongaro, C.T., J.A.M. Dematté, R. Rizzo, J.L. Safanelli, W.de Sousa Mendes, A.C. Dotto, L.E. Vicente, M.H.D. Franceschini, S.L. Ustin 2018. Improvement of clay and sand quantification based on a novel approach with a focus on multispectral satellite images. Remote Sensing 10(10): 1555, https://doi.org/10.3390/ra`10101555.

227. Qi, Y., S.L. Ustin, N.F. Glenn 2018. Imaging spectroscopic analysis of biochemical traits for shrub species in the Great Basin, USA.  Remote Sensing 10(10): 1621, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101621,

226.Tane, Z., D. Roberts, S. Veraverbeke, Á. Casas, C. Ramirez, S. Ustin 2018.  Evaluating endmember and band selection techniques for multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis using post-fire imaging spectroscopy.  Remote Sensing 10(3): 389, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030389.

225. Santos, M.J. and S.L. Ustin 2018. Spectral identification of native and non-native plant species for biodiversity assessments. IEEE IGARSS’18 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 22-27, 2018 Valencia, Spain. Doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517397, Accession # 18244163

224. Khanna, S., M.J. Santos, S.L. Ustin, K. Shapiro, P. J. Haverkamp, M. Lay 2018. Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact.  Sensors 18(2):558, https://doi.org/10.3390/s18020558

223. Huesca, M., K. Roth, M. Garcia, S.L. Ustin 2018. Discrimination of Canopy Structural Types in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Central California. Remote Sensing (invited, special issue; in press).

222. Khanna S., M.J. Santos, J.D. Boyer, K. Shapiro, J. Bellvert, S.L. Ustin 2018.  Water primrose invasion changes successional pathways in an estuarine ecosystem. Ecosphere 9(9): e02418.)

221. Huesca, M., Riaño, D, Ustin SL 2019. Spectral mapping methods applied to LiDAR data: Application to fuel type mapping. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 74: 159-168.

220. Garcia, M., S.S. Saatchi, A. Ferraz, C.A. Silva; S. Ustin, A. Koltunov, H. Balzter (2017c). Impact of data model and point density on aboveground forest biomass estimation from airborne LiDAR. Carbon Balance and Management 12” 4/ doi: 10.1186s13021-017-0073-1.

219.  Garcia, M,., S. Saatchi, A. Casas, A. Koltunov, S.L. Ustin, C. Ramirez, and H. Balzter 2017b.  Extrapolating forest canopy fuel properties in the California Rim fire by combining airborne LiDAR and Landsat OLI data.  Remote Sensing 9: 394, doi: 10.3390/rs9040394.

218. Stavros, N., D. Schimel, R. Pavlik, S. Serbin, A. Swann, L. Duncanson, J.B. Fisher, F. Fassnacht, S. Ustin, R. Dubayah, A. Schweiger and P. Wennberg. 2017.  ISS instruments offer insights into plant function.  Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 0194   DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0194.

217. Liu, H.J., M.L. Whiting, S.L. Ustin, P.J.-Tejada, T. Huffmam and X.L. Zhang.  2018.  Maximizing the relationship of yield to site-specific management zones with object-oriented segmentation of hyperspectral images.  Precision Agriculture 19: 348-364.

216. Zhou, K. X. Deng, X. Yao, Y.C. Tian, W.X. Cao, Y. Zhu, S.L. Ustin, T. Cheng  2017. Assessing the spectral properties of sunlit and shaded components in rice canopies with near-ground imaging spectroscopy data. Sensors 17(3): 578 DOI 10.3390/s17030578.

215. Khanna, S., M.J. Santos, A. Koltunov, K.D. Shapiro, M.C. Lay, S.L. Ustin 2017. Marsh loss due to cumulative impacts of hurricane Isaac and the deepwater horizon oil spill in Louisiana. Remote Sensing 9: 169; doi:10.3390/rs9020169

214. Koltunov, A., S.L. Ustin, B. Quale, B. Schwind, V.G. Ambrosia, and W. Li. 2016. The development and first validation of the GOIES Early Fire Detection (GOES-EFD) algorithm. Remote Sensing of Environment 184: 436-453.

213. Rodriguez, J., S. Ustin, S. Sandoval-Solis and T. O’Geen. 2016. Food, water and fault lines: Remote sensing opportunities for earthquake-response management of agricultural water. Science of the Total Environment 565: 231-241.

212. Santos, M.J., Rosalino, L.M., Santos-Rios, M., Ustin, S.L. 2016. Testing remotely-sensed predictors of meso-carnivore habitat use in Mediterranean ecosystems, Landscape Ecology 31: 1763-1780;  DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0360-3.

211. Huesca, M., M. García, M., K. Roth, K., A. Casas A., Ustin, S.L. 2016. Canopy Structural Attributes Derived from AVIRIS imaging spectroscopy data in a mixed broadleaf/conifer forest.  Remote sensing of Environment 182:208-226.

210. Roth, K.L., Casas, A.,  Huesca, M.,  Ustin, S.L., Alsina, M.M., Mathews, S.A. and Whiting, M.A. 2016 Leaf spectral clusters as potential optical leaf functional types within California ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment 184:229-246.

209. Santos, M.J., Khanna, S., Hestir, E.L., Greenberg, J.A. and Ustin, S.L. 2016.  Measuring landscape-scale spread and persistence of an invaded submerged plant community from airborne remote sensing.  Ecological Applications 26: 1733-1744. DOI: 10.1890/15-0615.

208. Beland, M., D.A. Roberts, S.H. Peterson, T.W. Biggs, R.F. Kokaly, S. Piazza, K.L. Roth, S. Khanna, S.L. Ustin. 2016. Mapping changing distributions of dominant species in oil-contaminated salt marshes of Louisiana using imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment 182: 192-207.

207. Liu, H.J., R. Kang., S. Ustin, X.L. Zhang, Q. Fu, L. Sheng, T.Y. Sun. 20016. Study on the prediction of cotton yield within field scale with time series hyperspectral imagery.  Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis 36: 2585-2589.

206. Ustin, S.L. 2016.  Preface: Remote Sensing of Biodiversity. Remote Sensing 8: 508.

205.  Gangodagamage, C., Brumby, S.P., Chartrand, R., Koltunov, A., Liu, D., Cai, M., and Ustin, S.L. 2016.  Wavelet-compressed representation of landscapes for hydrologic and geomorphologic applications.  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 13(4): 480-484.

204.  Bellvert, J., Zarco-Tejada, P.J., Marsal, J., Girona, J., Ustin, S., Fereres, E. 2016. Airborne thermal imagery to detect the seasonal evolution of plant water status in peach, nectarine and saturn peach orchard. Remote Sensing 8: 39, DOI: 10.3390/rs8010039.

203.  Jetz, W., J. Cavender-Bares, R. Pavlik, D. Schimel, F.W. Davis, G.P. Asner, R. Guralnick, J. Kattge, A.M. Latimer, P. Moorcroft, M.E. Schaepman, M.P. Schildhauer, F.D. Schneider, F. Schrodt, U. Stahl and S.L. Ustin. 2016.  Monitoring plant functional diversity from space. Nature Plants 2 Art. No. 16024. DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS. 2016.24.

202. Casas, Á., M. García, R.B. Siegel, A. Koltunov, C. Ramírez, and S.L. Ustin. 2016.  Burned forest characterization at single-tree level with airborne laser scanning for assessing wildlife habitat. Remote Sensing of Environment 175: 231-241.

201. Shapiro, K., K. Khanna and S.L. Ustin 2015. Vegetation Impact and Recovery from Oil-Induced Stress on Three Ecologically Distinct Wetland Sites in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal Marine Science Engineering 4(2): 33, doi:10.3390/jmse4020033.

200. Hestir, E.L., Schoellhamer, D.H., Greenberg, J., Morgan-King, T., and Ustin, S.L. 2015. The Effect of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Expansion on a Declining Turbidity Trend in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.  Estuaries and Coasts. 39: 1100-1112. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-0055-z.

199. Liu, H., L-H. Meng, X. Zhang, S.L. Ustin, D. Ning, S. Sun. 2015. Estimation model of cotton yield with time series Landsat images.  Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. DOI:10.11975/J.ISSN.1002-6819.2015.17.028

198.  Huesca, M., S.M. de Miguel, L. Eklundh, J. Litago, V. Cicuéndez, M. Rodríguez-Rastrero, S.L. Ustin, A. Palacios-Orueta.  2015. Ecosystem functional assessment based on the “optical type” concept and self-similarity patterns: An application using MODIS-NDVI time series autocorrelation.  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 43: 132-148.

197.  Lee, C.M., M.L. Cable, S.J. Hook, R.O. Green, S.L. Ustin, D.J. Mandl, E.M. Middleton.  2015.  An introduction to the NASA Hyperspectral InfraRed Imager (HyspIRI) mission and preparatory activities.  Remote Sensing of Environment 167: 6-19.

196. Grigsby, S.P., G.C. Hulley, D.A. Roberts, C. Scheele, S.L. Ustin, M.M. Alsina. 2015. Improved surface temperature estimates with MASTER/AVIRIS sensor fusion. Remote Sensing of Environment 167: 53-63.

195.  Cao, Q., Y. Miao, G. Feng, X. Gao, F. Li, B. Liu, S. Yue, S. Cheng, R. Khosla, S. L. Ustin. 2015. Active canopy sensing of winter wheat nitrogen status: an evaluation of two sensor systems. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 112: 54-67.

194. Garcia, M., J. Gajardo, D. Riano, K.G. Zhao, P. Martin and S. Ustin. 2015. Canopy clumping appraisal using terrestrial and airborne laser scanning.  Remote Sensing of Environment 161:78-88.

193. Greenberg, J.A., M.J. Santos, S.Z. Dobrowski, V.C. Vanderbilt and S.L. Ustin.  2015.  Quantifying environmental limiting factors on tree cover using geospatial data. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0114648.

192. Zarate-Valdez, J.L., S. Metcalf, W. Stewart, S.L. Ustin and B. Lampinen. 2015. Estimating light interception in tree crops with digital images of canopy shadow.  Precision Agriculture, DOI 10.1007/s11119-015-9387-8.

191. Peterson, S., D.A. Roberts, M. Beland, R.F. Kokaly and S.L. Ustin. 2014.  Oil detection in the coastal marshes of Louisiana using MESMA applied to band subsets of AVIRIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment 159: 222-231.

190. Ustin, S.L., M.J. Santos, E.L. Hestir, S. Khanna, A. Casas, and J.A. Greenberg. 2014. Developing the capacity to monitor climate change impacts in Mediterranean estuaries. Evolutionary Ecology Research 16: 529-550.

189. Kefauver, S.C., J. Penuelas, A. Ribas, M. Diaz-de Quiano and S. Ustin. 2014.  Using Pinus uncinata to monitor tropospheric ozone in the Pyrenees. Ecological Indicators 36: 262-271.

188.  Kefauver, S.C., J. Peñuelas and S. Ustin. 2014. Using topographic and remotely sensed variables to assess ozone injury to conifers in the Sierra Nevada (USA) and Catalonia (Spain). Remote Sensing of Environment 139: 138-148.

187. Cheng, T., Riaño, D., & Ustin, S.L. 2014a. Detecting diurnal and seasonal variation in canopy water content of nut tree orchards from airborne imaging spectroscopy data using continuous wavelet analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 143, 39–53

186. Cheng, T., Féret, J.B., Jacquemoud, S. and Ustin, S.L. (2014b). Deriving leaf mass per area (LMA) from foliar reflectance across a variety of plant species using continuous wavelet analysis. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 87: 28-38.

185. Casas, Á., D. Riaño, S.L. Ustin, P.  Dennison, and J. Salas. 2014. Estimation of water-related biochemical and biophysical vegetation properties using multitemporal airborne hyperspectral data and its comparison to MODIS spectral response. Remote Sensing of Environment 148:28-41.

184. Li, F., Y. Miao, G. Feng, F. Yuan, S. Yue, X. Gao, Y. Liu, B. Liu and S.L. Ustin, X. Chen. 2014. Improving estimation of summer maize nitrogen status with red edge-based spectral vegetation indices. Field Crops Research 157: 111-123.

183.  Gnyp, M.L., Y. Miao, F. Yuan, S.L. Ustin, K. Yu, Y. Yao, S. Huang and G. Bareth. 2014. Hyperspectral canopy sensing of paddy rice aboveground biomass at different growth stages. Field Crops Research, 155:42-55.

182. Falk, M., R.D. Pyles, S.L. Ustin, K.T. Paw U, L. Xu, M.L. Whiting, B.L. Sanden and P.H. Brown. 2014. Evaluated crop evapotranspiration over a region of irrigated orchards with the improved ACASA-WRF model, Journal of Hydrometeorology 15: 744-758. DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0183.1

181. Alsina, M. M., Cheng, T., Riano, D., Whiting, M., Ustin, S. and Smart, D. R.  2013.  Water status detection in California table grapes: from leaf to airborne. Precision Agriculture 13: 225-231.

180. Khanna, S, MJ Santos, SL Ustin, A Koltunov, RF Kokaly and DA Roberts.  2013.  Detection of Salt Marsh Vegetation Stress and Recovery after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico using AVIRIS Data.  PLOS One 8: e78989.

179. Cheng, T., D. Riaño, A. Koltunov, M.L. Whiting, S.L. Ustin and J. Rodriguez. 2013. Detection of diurnal variation in orchard canopy water content using MODIS/ASTER airborne simulator (MASTER) data. Remote Sensing of Environment 132: 1-12.

178. Hestir, E.L., D.H. Schoellhamer, T. Morgan-King, S.L. Ustin- 2013.  A step decrease in sediment concentration in a highly modified tidal river delta following the 1983 El Niño floods.  Marine Geology, 345: 304-313.

177. Kokaly, RF, Couvillion, BR, Holloway, JM, Roberts, DA, Ustin, SL, Peterson, SH, Khanna, S, Piazza, SC. 2012.  Spectroscopic remote sensing of the distribution and persistence of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay marshes. Remote Sensing of Environment 129: 210-230.

176. Ruan, R. and S. Ustin, 2012.  Mapping of freshwater lake wetlands using object-relations and rule-based inference. Chinese Geographical Science 22: 462-471.

175.  Ustin, S.L. 2012.  Remote sensing of canopy chemistry.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Invited Commentary, 110: 84-85.

174. Koltunov, A., S.L. Ustin, E. Prins. 2012. On timeliness and accuracy of wildfire detection by the GOES WF-ABBA algorithm over California during the 2006 fire season.  Remote Sensing of Environment 127:194-209.

173. Florsheim, J.L., S. Ustin, Y. Tang, B,F, Di, C. Huang, X. Qaio, H. Ping, M. Zhang and Y. Cai.  2012. Geomorphic Controls on Fluvial Travertine Morphology, Jiuzhaigou, Southwestern China. Geomorphology 180;267-280.

172. Kefauver, S.C., J. Peñuelas and S.L. Ustin. 2012. Improving assessments of tropospheric ozone injury to Mediterranean montane conifer forests in California (USA) and Catalonia (Spain) with GIS models related to plant water relations.  Atmospheric Environment 62: 41-49.

171. Palacios-Orueta, A., M. Huesca, M.L. Whiting, J. Litago, S. Khanna, M. Garcia, S.L. Ustin. 2012.

Derivation of phenological metrics by function fitting to time-series of Spectral Shape Indexes AS1 and AS2: Mapping cotton phenological stages using MODIS time series. Remote Sensing of Environment 126: 148–159.

170.  Di, B-F., K-S. Zhang, Y. Tang, M-H Zhang, S.L. Ustin. 2012.  The development of a geographic information system (GIS) database for Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve and its application.  Journal of Mountain Science 10: 398-409.

169. Hestir, E.L., J.A. Greenberg & S.L. Ustin 2012. Classification Trees for Aquatic Vegetation Community Prediction from Imaging Spectroscopy. IEEE JSTARS 5: 1572-1584.

168. Ustin SL, D Riaño & ER Hunt Jr 2012. Estimating Canopy Water Content from Spectroscopy. Israel J Plant Sci. 60:9-23.

167. Greenberg, J.A., E.L. Hestir, D. Riaño, G.J. Scheer and S.L. Ustin. 2012. Using LiDAR data analysis to estimate changes in insolation under large-scale riparian deforestation. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 48: 939:948.

166. Zarate-Valdez, J.L., Whiting, M.L., Lampinen, B.D., Metcalf, S., Ustin, S.L., and Brown, P.H., 2012. Prediction of leaf area index in almonds by vegetation indexes. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 85: 24-32.

165. Moreno Ruiz, J. A., D.Riano, M. Arbelo, N.H.F. French and S.L. Ustin, M.L. Whiting. 2012 Burned area mapping time series in Canada (1984-1999) from NOAA-AVHRR LTDR:  A comparison with other remote sensing products and fire perimeters.  Remote Sensing of Environment 117: 407-414

164. Casas, A., D. Riano, J. Greenberg and S. Ustin. 2012. Assessing levee stability with lidar imagers. Remote Sensing of Environment 117:281-288.

163. Cheng, T.B.  Rivard, A.G. Sánchez-Azofeifa, J.-B. Féret, S. Jacquemoud and S.L. Ustin. 2012.  Predicting leaf gravimetric water content from foliar reflectance across a range of plant species using continuous wavelet analysis.  Journal of Plant Physiology 169: 1134-1142.

162.  Santos, M.J. E.L. Hestir, S. Khanna and S.L. Ustin. 2012.  Image spectroscopy and stable isotopes elucidate functional dissimilarity between native and non-native plant species in the aquatic environment. New Phytologist, 193: 683–695.

161. Kobayashi, H., D.D. Baldocchi, Y. Ryu, Q. Chen, S.Y. Ma, J.L. Osuna, and S.L. Ustin. 2012.  Modeling energy and carbon fluxes in a heterogeneous oak woodland: A three-dimensional approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 152: 83-100.

160. Khanna, S., M.J. Santos, E.L. Hestir and S.L. Ustin. 2012. Plant community dynamics relative to the changing distribution of a highly invasive species, Eichhornia crassipes: a remote sensing perspective. Biological Invasions.  14: 717-733.

159. Rodriguez J.M., S.L. Ustin, D. Riano. 2011.  Contributions of imaging spectroscopy to improve estimates of evapotranspiration. Hydrological Processes 25: 4069-4081.

158. Khanna, S., M.J. Santos & S.L. Ustin 2011. An integrated approach to a biophysiologically based classification of floating aquatic macrophytes. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32:1067-1094.

157. Greenberg, J.A., C. Rueda, E.L. Hestir, M.J. Santos and S.L. Ustin 2011. Least cost path analysis for spatial interpolation.  Computers & Geosciences 37: 272-276.

156. Santos, M.J., L.W. Anderson and S.L. Ustin 2011. Effects of invasive species on plant communities: an example using submerged aquatic plants at the regional scale. Biological Invasions 13 (2), 443-457, DOI 10.1007/s10530-010-9840-6.

155.  Zona D., Oechel W.C., Peterson, K.M., Clements, R.J., Paw U, K.T., Ustin, S.L. 2010.  Characterization of the carbon fluxes of a vegetated drained lake basin chronosequence on the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain.  Global Change Biology 16: 1870-1882.

154. Ustin, S.L. and J.A. Gamon 2010. Remote Sensing of Plant Functional Types. Invited Tansley Review, New Phytologist 186: 795-816.

153.  Andrew, M.E., Ustin, S.L. 2010. The effects of temporally variable dispersal and landscape structure on invasive species spread.  Ecological Applications 20: 593-608.

152.  Garcia, M., J. Litago, A. Palacios-Orueta, J. Pinzon, and S.L. Ustin 2010. Short-term propagation of rainfall perturbations on terrestrial ecosystems in central California.  Applied Vegetation Science 1-17. 

151. Di, B., H. Zeng, M. Zhang, S.L. Ustin,Y. Tang, Z. Wang and N. Chen  2010. Quantifying the Spatial Distribution of Soil Mass Wasting Processes after the 2008 Earthquake in Wenchuan, China.  Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 761-777.

150. Santos, M.J., J.A. Greenberg & S.L. Ustin 2010. Detecting and quantifying Southeastern pine senescence effects to Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) habitat using hyperspectral remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 1242-1250.

149.  Koltunov, A., Ustin, S.L., Asner, G.P., Fung, I. 2009. Selective logging changes forest phenology in the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from MODIS image time series analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 2431-2440.

148.  Moreno-Ruiz, J.A., Riaño, D., Garcia-Lazaro, J.R., Ustin, S.L. 2009. Intercomparison of AVHRR PAL and LTDR Version 2 Long-Term Data Sets for Africa from 1982 to 2000 and Its Impact on Mapping Burned Area. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters    6: 738-742.

147. Andrew, M.E., and S.L. Ustin 2009. Habitat suitability modelling of an invasive plant with advanced remote

 sensing data.  Diversity and Distributions 15: 627-640.

146. Andrew, M.E., and S.L. Ustin 2009.  Spatiotemporal variation in phenology of Lepidium latifolium: Effects of microtopography and hydrology.  Ecography 32:860-870.

145.  Jacquemoud, S., and S. Ustin. 2008. Modeling leaf optical properties.  Photobiological
Sciences Online. Environmental Photobiology. http://www.photobiology.info/#Environ

144. Jacquemoud, S., W. Verhoef, F. Baret, C. Bacour, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, G.P. Asner, C. François, and S.L. Ustin. 2009. PROSPECT + SAIL: A Review of Use for Vegetation Characterization.  Remote Sensing of Environment 113: S56-S66.

143. MacDonald, J.S., S.L. Ustin, M.E. Schaepman. 2009.  The contributions of Dr. Alexander F.H. Goetz to imaging spectrometry.  Remote Sensing of Environment 113: S2-S4.

142. Santos, M.J.,  S. Khanna, E.L. Hestir, M.E. Andrew, S.S. Rajapakse, J.A. Greenberg, L.W.J. Anderson and S.L. Ustin.  2009. Use of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Evaluate Efficacy of Aquatic Plant Management.  Invasive Plant Science and Management 2: 216–229.

141. Schaepman, M.E., S.L. Ustin, A.J. Plaza, T.H. Painter, J. Verrelst and S. Liang.  2009.  Earth system science related imaging spectroscopy—An assessment.  Remote Sensing of Environment 113:S123-S137.

140. Ustin, S.L., A.A. Gitelson, S. Jacquemoud, M. Schaepman, G.P. Asner, J.A. Gamon, P. Zarco-Tejada 2009. Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:S67-S77.

139. Ustin, S.L., M.E. Schaepman. 2009.  Imaging spectroscopy special issue.  Remote Sensing of Environment 113: S1.

138. Zomer, R.J., A. Trabucco and S. L. Ustin.  2009.  Building spectral libraries for wetlands land cover classification and hyperspectral remote sensing.  Journal of Environmental Management 90: 2170-2177. 

137. Ustin, S.L., P.G. Valko,  S.C. Kefauver, M.J. Santos, J.F. Zimpfer, and S.D. Smith 2009. Remote sensing of biological soil crust under simulated climate change manipulations in the Mojave Desert. Remote Sensing of Environment   113: 317-328.   

136. Hart, Q.J., M. Brunagch, B. Temesgen, C. Rueda, S. Ustin, K. Frame. 2009. Daily reference evapotranspiration for California using satellite imagery and weather station measurement interpolation. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 26:19-33.

135. Koltunov, A., E. Ben-Dor, and S.L. Ustin. 2009.  Image construction using multitemporal observations and Dynamic Detection Models.  International Journal of Remote Sensing 30: 57-83.

134. Dobrowski, S.D., H.D. Safford,Y. B. Cheng, and S.L.Ustin 2008. Mapping mountain vegetation using species distribution modeling, image-based texture analysis, and object-based classification. Journal of Applied Vegetation Science 11:499-508.

133. Féret,  J-B., François, C. Asner,  GP, Gitelson, AA, Martin, RE, Bidel, L.P.R., Ustin, S.L., le Maire, G., and Jacquemoud, S. 2008. PROSPECT-4 and -5:Advances in the Leaf Optical Properties Model Separating Photosynthetic Pigments. Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 3030-3043. 

132. Goodman, J., J.P. Lee, and S.L. Ustin. 2008. Influence of atmospheric and sea-surface corrections on retrieval of bottom depth and reflectance using a semi-analytical model: a case study in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Applied Optics 47: F1-F11.

131. Hestir, E., S. Khanna, M.E. Andrew, M.J. Santos, J.H. Viers, J.A. Greenberg, S.S. Rajapakse, S.L. Ustin 2008.  Identification of invasive vegetation using hyperspectral remote sensing in the California delta ecosystem. Remote Sensing of Environment 112: 4034-4047.

130. Andrew, M.E. and S.L. Ustin. 2008. The role of environmental context in mapping invasive plants with hyperspectral image data.  Remote Sensing of Environment 112:4301-4317.

129.  Falk, M., S. Wharton, M. Schroeder, S. Ustin and K.T. Paw U. 2008. Flux partitioning in old-growth forest and the canopy microclimate: seasonal and interannual dynamics. Tree Physiology 28, 509–520.

128.  Li, L., Cheng, Y.L., and S. Ustin, Hu, X.T., and D. Riaño. 2008.  Retrieval of vegetation equivalent water thickness from reflectance using genetic algorithm (GA)-partial least squares (PLS) regression. Advances in Space Research 41: 1755-1763.   

127.  Noujdina, N. and S.L. Ustin 2008. Mapping downy brome (Bromus tectorum) using multi-date AVIRIS data.  Weed Science 56:173-179.

126. Cheng, Y-B., S.L. Ustin, D. Riaño, and V.C. Vanderbilt 2008. Water Content Estimation from Hyperspectral Images and MODIS Indexes in Southeastern Arizona.  Remote Sensing of Environment 112(2): 363-374.

125. Young, C., W. Wallender, G. Schoups, G. Fogg, B. Hanson, T. Harter, J. Hopmans, R. Howett, T. Hsiao, S. Panday, K. Tanji, S. Ustin, K. Ward. 2007. Modeling shallow water table evaporation in irrigated regions. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 21:19-37.

124. Goodman, J. and S.L. Ustin. 2007. Classification of benthic composition in a coral reef environment using spectral unmixing.  Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 1: 011501 (26 Dec. 2007).

123.  Underwood, E. and S. Ustin. 2007. Trends in Invasive Alien Species. Pages 161-177 in  Strand, H., Höft, R., Strittholt, J., Miles, L., Horning, N., Fosnight, E., editors.  Sourcebook on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Indicators. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Technical Series no. 32, 201 pages.

122. Trombetti, M., D. Riaño, M.A. Rubio, Y.B.Cheng, and S.L. Ustin, 2008. Multi-temporal vegetation canopy water content retrieval and interpretation using artificial neural networks for the continental USA.  Remote Sensing of Environment 12(1): 204-215.

121. Koltunov, A. and S.L. Ustin 2007. Early fire detection using non-linear multitemporal prediction of thermal imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 110: 18-28.

120. Ramón Rodríguez-Pérez, J., D. Riaño, E. Carlisle, S. Ustin and D.R. Smart. 2007.  Evaluation of hyperspectral reflectance indices to detect grapevine water status in vineyards.  American Journal of Viticulture 58: 302-317.

119. Tiffany, M.A., S.L. Ustin and S.H. Hurlbert. 2007.  Sulfide irruptions and gypsum blooms in the Salton Sea as detected by satellite imagery, 1979-2006.  Lake and Reservoir Management 23: 637-653.

118. Khanna, S., A. Palacios-Orueta, M.L. Whiting, S.L. Ustin, D. Riaño, and J. Litago 2007. Development of angle indexes for soil moisture estimation, dry matter detection and land-cover discrimination. Remote Sensing of 109:154-165.

117. Vanderbilt, V.C., S.B. Khanna, and S. L. Ustin. 2007. Impact of Pixel Size on Mapping Surface Water in Subsolar Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 109: 1-9.

116. Li, L., S.L. Ustin and D. Riano. 2007. Retrieval of fresh leaf fuel moisture content using genetic algorithm – partial least squares modeling (GA-PLS), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 42: 216-220.

115. Tugrul Yilmaz, M., E.R. Hunt, Jr., L.D. Goins, S.L. Ustin, V.C. Vanderbilt, and T.J. Jackson.  2007. Vegetation water content during SMEX04 from ground data and Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2): 350-262.

114. Xiao, Q., E.G. McPherson, J.R. Simpson, and S.L. Ustin. 2007.  Hydrologic processes at the urban residential scale. Hydrological Processes 21: 2174-2188.

113. Riaño D., E. Chuvieco, S.L. Ustin, F.J. Salas,  J.R. Rodriguez-Perez,  L.M. Ribeiro, D.X. Viegas, J.M Moreno. and H. Fernandez.  2007. Estimation of shrub height for fuel-type mapping combining airborne lidar and simultaneous color infrared ortho images, International Journal of Wildland Fire 16: 341-348.

112. Riaño D., Moreno Ruiz, J.A., Barón Martínez J. and S.L. Ustin. 2007.  Burned area surface forecasting using past burned area surface records and Southern Oscillation Index for tropical Africa (1981-1999), Remote Sensing of Environment 107: 571-581.

111. Cheng, Y-B., E. Tom, and S.L. Ustin. 2007. Mapping an invasive species, kudzu (Pueraria montana) using hyperspectral imagery in western Georgia. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing: 1: 013514 (23 May 2007).

110. Cheng, Y-B., P.J. Zarco-Tejada, S.L. Ustin, S. Wharton, M. Falk, and K. T. Paw U. 2007.  Relationships between MODIS Water Indices and Tower Flux Data in an Old‑Growth Conifer Forest.  Journal of Applied Remote Sensing: 1: 013513 (23 May 2007).

109. Riaño, D., J.A. Moreno Ruiz, J.B. Martinez, and S.L. Ustin. 2007.  Burned area forecasting using past burned area records and Southern Oscillation Index for tropical Africa (1981-1999). Remote Sensing of Environment 107 (4): 571-581.

108. Andrew, M.E. and S.L. Ustin. 2006.  Spectral and physiological uniqueness of perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium). Weed Science, 54 (6): 1051-1062.

107. Riaño D., Moreno Ruiz, J.A., Isidoro, D. and S.L. Ustin. 2007. Global spatial patterns and temporal trends of burned area between 1981 and 2000 using NOAA-NASA Pathfinder, Global Change Biology 13: 40-50.

106.  Underwood, E., M.J. Mulitsch, J.A. Greenberg, M. L. Whiting, S.L. Ustin and S.C. Kefauver. 2006.   Mapping invasive aquatic vegetation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta using hyperspectral imagery. Ecological Monitoring and Assessment, 121 (1-3): 47-64.

105.  Laursen, K.K., D.P. Jorgenson, G.P. Brasseur, S.L. Ustin, J.R. Hunning. 2006.  HIAPER, the Next Generation NSF/NCAR Research Aircraft.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87 (7): 896+

104. Cheng, Y-B., P.J. Zarco-Tejada, D. Riaño, C.A. Rueda and S.L. Ustin.  2006.  Estimating vegetation water content with Hyperspectral data for different canopy scenarios: Relationships between AVIRIS and MODIS indexes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 105 (4): 354-366.

103. Underwood, E. S.L. Ustin and C. Ramirez. 2007.  A comparison of spatial and spectral image resolution for mapping invasive plants in coastal California, Ecological Management, 39 (1): 63-83.

102.  Dobrowski, S.Z., J.A. Greenberg, C.M. Ramirez, S.L. Ustin.  2006. Improving image derived vegetation maps with regression based distribution modeling. Ecological Modelling 192 (1-2): 126-142.

101. Rosso, P.H., S.L. Ustin, and A. Hastings. 2006.  Use of lidar to study changes associated with Spartina invasion in San Francisco Bay marshes. Remote Sensing of Environment 100 (3): 295-306.

100. Greenberg, J.A., S.Z. Dobrowski, C.M. Ramirez, J.L. Tuil, and S.L. Ustin. 2006. A bottom-up approach to vegetation mapping of the Lake Tahoe Basin using hyperspatial image analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72 (5): 581-589.

99. Cheng, Y-B., D. Riano, P. Zarco-Tejada, and S.L. Ustin, 2006.  Canopy water content estimates with AVIRIS imagery and MODIS reflectance products.  S.P.I.E. The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology.  Proc. SPIE Vol. 6298, 629809 (Sep. 27, 2006).

98. Rajapakse, S.S., S. Khanna, M.E. Andrew, S.L. Ustin, and M. Lay 2006.  Identifying and classifying water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) using the HyMap sensor.  S.P.I.E.  The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology.  Proc. SPIE Vol. 6298, 629804 (Sep. 27, 2006).

97. Whiting, M.L., S.L. Ustin, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, and A. Palacios-Orueta and V.C. Vanderbilt. 2006.  Hyperspectral mapping of crop and soils for precision agriculture. S.P.I.E.  The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology.  Proc. SPIE Vol. 6298, 62980B (Sep. 27, 2006)

96.  Dobrowski, S.Z., J.C. Pushnik, P.J. Zarco-Tejeda, and S.L. Ustin. 2005.   Simple reflectance indices track heat and water stressed induced changes in steady state chlorophyll fluorescence at the canopy scale.  Remote Sensing of Environment 97(3): 403-414.

95. Greenberg, J.A., H. Stimson, S. Kefauver, C. Yeaton , and S.L. Ustin. 2005.  Survival analysis of a neotropical rainforest. Remote Sensing of Environment 96 (2): 202-211.

94. Greenberg, J.A., S.Z. Dobrowski, and S.L. Ustin. 2005.  Shadow allometry: Estimating tree structural parameters using hyperspatial image analysis.Remote Sensing of Environment 97 (1): 15-25.

93.  Riano, D., S.L. Ustin, L. Usero, and M.A. Patricio, 2005.  Estimation of fuel moisture content using neural networks.  Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Applications: A Bioinspired Approach, Pt 2, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3562: 489-498 2005.

92.  Li, L. and S. L. Ustin, 2005.  Application of AVIRIS data in detection of oil-induced vegetation stress at Jornada, New Mexico, Remote Sensing of Environment 94(1): 1-16.

91.  Stimson, H.C.,D.D. Breshears,, S.L. Ustin, S.C. Kefauver,. 2005.  Spectral sensing of foliar water conditions in two co-occurring conifer species:  Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma. Remote Sensing of Environment 96(1): 108-118.

90.  Zarco-Tejada, P.J., S.L. Ustin, and M. Whiting, 2005.  Temporal and spatial relationships between within-field yield variability in cotton and high-spatial hyperspectral remote sensing imagery. Agronomy Journal 97(3): 641-653.

89.  Li, L., S.L. Ustin and M. Lay 2005. Application of multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) to AVIRIS imagery for coastal salt marsh mapping: a case study in China Camp, CA, USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26 (23): 5193-5207.

88.  Rosso, P.H., Ustin, S.L., and Hastings, A. 2005. Mapping marshland vegetation of San Francisco Bay, California, using hyperspectral data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26 (23): 5169-5191.

87.  Rosso, P.H., Pushnik, J.C., Lay, M. and Ustin, S.L. 2005. Reflectance properties and physiological responses of Salicornia virginica to heavy metal and petroleum contamination. Environmental Pollution 137 (2): 241-252.

86.  Riaño, D. P. Vaughan, E. Chuvieco, P. J. Zarco-Tejada and S. L. Ustin. 2004. Estimation of fuel moisture content by inversion of radiative transfer models to simulate equivalent water thickness and dry matter content. Analysis at leaf and canopy level. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43(4): 819-826.

85.  Ustin, S.L. D. Darling, S. Kefauver, J. Greenberg,Y-B. Cheng, and M. L. Whiting. 2004. Remotely sensed estimates of crop water demand. S.P.I.E.  The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology. 49th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 2-6 August 2004. 5544-24.

84.  Ustin, S.L.  M. Lay and L. Li. 2004. Remote sensing of wetland conditions in West Coast salt marshes. S.P.I.E.  The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology. 49th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 2-6 August 2004. 5544-24.

83.  Ustin, S.L., D.A. Roberts, J.A. Gamon, G.P. Asner, and R.O. Green. 2004. Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Study Ecosystem Processes and Properties. Bioscience 54(6): 523-534.

82.  Riano, D., E. Chuvieco, S. Condes, J. Gonzalez-Matesanz, and S.L. Ustin.  2004. Generation of crown bulk density for Pinus sylvestris L. from LIDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment 92 (3): 345-352.

81. Ustin, S.L. and S. Jacquemoud. 2004.  Modeling Leaf Optical Properties. Digital Photobiology Compendium. www.photobiology.info

80.  Whiting, M.L., L. Li, and S.L. Ustin, 2004. Predicting water content using Gaussian model on soil spectra.  Remote Sensing of Environment 89(4): 535-552.

79.  Wilson, M.D., S.L. Ustin, and D.M. Rock. 2004.  Comparison of support vector machine classification to partial least squares dimension reduction with logistic discrimination of hyperspectral data.  Transactions on GeoScience and Remote Sensing 42(5): 1088-1095.

78.  Dobrowski, S.Z. S.L. Ustin and J.A. Wolpert. 2004. Grapevine dormant pruning weight prediction using remotely sensed data. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 9 (3): 177-182 2003.

77.  Suchanek, T.H., H.A. Mooney, J.F. Franklin, H. Gucinski and S.L. Ustin, 2004. Carbon Dynamics of an Old-Growth Forest.  Ecosystems 7 (5): 421-426.

76.  Chen, J., K.T. Paw U, S. L. Ustin, T. H. Suchanek, X. Wang, M. Falk, K. D. Brosofske, R. Bi, T. King,and B. J. Bond. 2004. Net ecosystem exchanges (NEE) of carbon, water, and energy in young and old-growth Douglas-fir forests. Ecosystems 7 (5): 534-544.

75.  Roberts, D.A., S.L. Ustin, S. Ogunjemiyo, J. Greenberg, S.Z. Dobrowski,  J. Chen, and T.M. Hinckley.  2004. Spectral and structural measures of northwest forest vegetation at leaf to landscape scale.  Ecosystems 7 (5): 545-562.

74. Mariscal, M. J., S. N. Martens, S. L. Ustin, J. Chen, and D.A. Roberts, 2004. Spatial variability of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) within canopy gaps in an old-growth Douglas-fir/western hemlock forest.  Ecosystems 7 (5): 454-467.

73.  Paw U, K.T., .H. Suchanek, S.L. Ustin, J. Chen, W. Winner, S. Thomas, Hsiao, R. Shaw, T. King, M. Falk, D. Pyles and A. Matista.  2004.  Carbon dioxide exchange between an old growth forest and the atmosphere.  Ecosystems 7 (5): 513-524.

72.  Xiao, Q-F., E.G. McPherson, and S.L. Ustin. 2003.  Using AVIRIS Data and Multiple-Masking techniques to Map Urban Forest Tree Species. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(24) 5637-5654.

71.  Zhang, M., Quin, Z., Liu, X. and S.L. Ustin.  2003.  Hyperspectral remote sensing applications in detecting late blight infection on tomatoes.  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 4: 295-310.

70.  Roberts, D.A., P. Dennison, M. Gardner,Y. Hetzel, S. L. Ustin, and C. Lee. 2003. Evaluation of the Potential of Hyperion for Fire Danger Assessment by Comparison to the Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. IEEE Transactions of GeoScience and Remote Sensing 41(6): 1297-1310.

69.  Underwood, E. and S.L. Ustin. 2003. Mapping non-native species using hyperspectral imagery.  2003. Remote Sensing of Environment 86(2): 150-161. 

68. Zarco-Tejada, P.J., Rueda, C.A., and Ustin, S.L. 2003. Water content estimation in vegetation with MODIS reflectance data and model inversion methods. Remote Sensing of Environment 85: 109-124.

67. Riano, D., E. Meier, B. Allgöwer, E. Chuvieco, S.L. Ustin. 2003. Modeling airborne laser scanning data for the spatial generation of critical forest parameters in fire behavior modeling. Remote Sensing of Environment 86: 177-186.

66. Zarco-Tejada, P.J., Pushnik, J.C., Dobrowski, S., and Ustin, S.L. 2003. Steady-state Chlorophyll Fluorescence detection from Canopy Derivative reflectance and Double-Peak effects. Remote Sensing of Environment 84(2): 283-294.

65.  Ogunjemiyo, S., Roberts, D.A., K. Keightley, S.L. Ustin, T. Hinckley, and B. Lamb.  2002. Evaluating the relationship between AVIRIS water vapor and forested land cover.  Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere 107 (D23): 4719.

64.  Zomer, R.  S. Ustin, J. Ives. 2002. Using satellite remote sensing for DEM extraction in complex mountainous terrain: Landscape analysis of the Makalu Barun National Park in eastern Nepal.   International Journal of Remote Sensing 23: 125-143.

63.  Vanderbilt, V.C. G.L. Perry, J.A. Stearn, S.L. Ustin, M.C. Diaz Barrios, S. Zedler, J.L. Syder, L.A. Morrissey and G.P. Livingston, F-M. Bréon, S. Bouffies, M.M. Leroy, M. Herman and J-Y. Balois. 2002.  Sunglint Allows Wetlands Discrimination. IEEE Transactions on GeoScience and Remote Sensing 40(6):1279-1287.

62.  Dobrowski, S.Z., Ustin, S.L., Wolpert, J.A. 2002. Remote estimation of vine canopy density in vertically shoot-positioned vineyards: determining optimal vegetation indices.  Australian Journal of Grape & Wine Research. 8(2):117-125.

61.  Riaño, D., S. Ustin, R. Zomer, P. Dennison, and D. Roberts. 2001. Assessment of the regeneration after fire through the multitemporal analysis of AVIRIS images in the Santa Monica Mountains.  Remote Sensing of Environment 79:60-71.

60.  Chen, J. M. Falk, E. Euskirchen, K.T. Paw U, T. Suchanek, S. Ustin, B. Bond, N. Phillips, and K. Brosofske. 2001Biophysical controls of carbon flows in three successional Douglas-fir stands based upon eddy-covariance measurements. Tree Physiology 22: 169-177.

59.  Serrano, L., Peñuelas J., Ustin, S.L. 2002. Remote sensing of nitrogen and lignin in Mediterranean vegetation from AVIRIS data: Decomposing biochemical from structural signals. Remote Sensing of Environment. 81(2-3):355-364.

58.  Garcia, M. and S.L. Ustin. 2001.Detection of inter-annual vegetation responses to climatic variability using AVIRIS data in a coastal savanna in California.  IEEE Transactions on GeoScience and Remote Sensing 39: 1480-1490.

57.  Ustin, S.L., S. Jacquemoud, Y. Govaerts. 2001. Simulation of photon transport in a three-dimensional leaf:  Implications for plant physiology. Plant Cell and Environment 24: 1095-1103.           

56.  Ustin, S.L. Remote sensing.  2001. Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change.  John Wiley and Sons. New York. 

55.   Sanderson, E.W., T.C. Foin and S.L. Ustin. 2001.  A simple empirical model of salt marsh plant spatial distributions with respect to a tidal channel network.  Ecological Modelling, 139:293-307.

54.  Zomer, R.J.; Carpenter, C., Ustin, S.L., Ives, J.D.  2001. Structure, composition and community ordination of tropical monsoon forest within the Makalu Barun Conservation Area of eastern Nepal. Phytocoenologia 31:161-184.

53. Zomer, R., S.L. Ustin, and C.C. Carpenter.  2001. Land cover change along tropical riparian and subtropical riparian corridors within the Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area, Nepal.   Mountain Research and Development 21(N2):175-183.

52. Ustin, S.L. and Q-F. Xiao. 2001. Mapping of forested ecosystems in interior central Alaska. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22: 1779-1797.

51.  Xiao, Q. E.G. McPherson, S.L. Ustin, and M.E. Grismer. 2000.  A new approach to modeling tree rainfall interception.  Journal Geophysical Research.  105(ND23): 29173-29188.

50.   Serrano, L. S.L. Ustin, D.A. Roberts, J.A. Gamon, and J. Penuelas. 2000.  Deriving water content of chaparral vegetation from AVIRIS data.  Remote Sensing of Environment 74(N3): 570-581.

49. Ustin, S. and A. Trabucco. 2000.  Analysis of AVIRIS hyperspectral data to assess forest structure and composition.  Journal of Forestry 98(6): 47-49.  

48.  Xiao, Q.-F., G. McPherson, S.L. Ustin, M. Grismer, and J.R. Simpson. 2000. Winter rainfall Interception by Two Mature Open Grown Trees in Davis, California. Hydrological Processes 14: 756-784.

47. Sanderson, W.E., S.L. Ustin, and T.C . Foin. 2000. The influence of tidal channels on salt marsh vegetation. Plant Ecology 146: 29-41.         

46.  Ustin, S.L., D.A. Roberts, R.O. Green, R. J. Zomer, and M. Garcia. 1999.  Remote sensing methods monitor natural resources, Photonics Spectra 33(10):108-111,113.

45.  Palacios-Orueta, A., J.E. Pinzon, S.L. Ustin, and D.A. Roberts. 1999. Remote sensing of soil properties in the Santa Monica Mountains. II. Hierarchical foreground and background analysis.  Remote Sensing of Environment 68(2):138-151. 

44.  Xiao, Q.F., G.E. McPherson, J.R. Simpson, S.L. Ustin.  1999. Rainfall interception of Sacramento’s Urban Forest.  Horticulture and Urban Planning 24: 235-244.

43.  Palacios-Orueta, A. and S.L. Ustin.  1998. Remote sensing of soil properties in the Santa Monica Mountains.  I.  Spectral analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment 65:170-183.                              

42. Ustin, S.L., D.A. Roberts, S. Jacquemoud, J. Pinzon, M. Gardner, G. Scheer, C.M. Castaneda, and A. Palacios.  1998.  Estimating canopy water content of chaparral shrubs using optical methods. Remote Sensing of Environment 65:280-291.

41. Pinzon, J.E., S.L. Ustin, C.M. Castaneda, and M.O. Smith. 1998. Investigation of leaf biochemistry by hierarchical foreground/background analysis.   IEEE Trans. Geosci. and Remote Sensing, 36: 1-15.

40. Pinzon, J. E., S. L. Ustin, C. M. Castaneda, J. F. Pierce and L. A. Costick.  1998.  Robust spatial and spectral feature extraction. for multispectral and hyperspectral imagery.  In:  Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery, IV, S. Shen and M. Descour (eds).  AeroSense98, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3372, p. 199-210.                                                                                                           

39   Pinzon, J. E., J. F. Pierce, S. L. Ustin and C. M. Castaneda.  1998.  Image registration by nonlinear wavelet compression and singular value decomposition. NASA Publication # CP-1998-206853, Proceedings of the Image Registration Workshop, J. LeMoigne (editor). NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, pp. 1-5.

38. Spanglet, H., S. Ustin and E. Rejmankova.  1998. Remote detection of plant community characteristics of a California subalpine marsh. Wetlands 18 (3):307-319.

37. Sanderson, E.W., M. Zhang, S.L. Ustin, and E. Rejmankova.  1998. Geostatistical scaling of canopy water content in a California salt marsh.  Landscape Ecology 13:79-92.

36. Roberts, D.A., M. Gardner, R. Church, S.L. Ustin, G. Scheer, and R.O. Green.  1998. Mapping chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains using multiple endmember spectral mixture models. Remote Sensing of Environment 65:267-279.

35. Zhang, M., S. Geng, and S.L. Ustin. 1997.  Quantifying the agricultural landscape:  Assessing spatio-temporal patterns of precipitation and groundwater use.  Landscape Ecology 13(1): 37-54.

34. Zhang, M., S. Geng, S.L. Ustin,  and K.K. Tanji. 1997.  Pesticide occurrence in groundwater in Tulare County, California.  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 45: 101-127.

33. Zhang, M.,  S.L. Ustin, E. Rejmankova, and E.W.  Sanderson. 1996.  Remote sensing of salt marshes:  Potential for  monitoring. Ecological Applications  7(3): 1039-1053.     

32. Govaerts, Y.M., S. Jacquemoud, M.M. Verstraete, and S. L. Ustin.  1996. Three-dimensional radiation transfer modeling in a dicotyledon leaf.  Applied Optics 35: 6585-6598.

31. Ustin, S.L., Q.J. Hart L. Duan and G. Scheer. 1996.   Vegetation mapping on hardwood rangelands in California, International Journal of Remote Sensing  17: 3015-3036.

30. Xiao, Q.-F., S.L. Ustin, and W.W. Wallender. 1996.  A spatial and continuous surface-subsurface hydrologic model.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 101D: 29565-29584.

29. Palacios-Orueta, A., and S. L. Ustin.  1996. Multivariate statistical classification of soil spectra.   Remote Sensing of Environment 57:  108-118.

28. Jacquemoud, S., S.L. Ustin, J. Verdebout, G. Schmuck, G. Andreoli, and B. Hosgood.  1996.   Estimating leaf biochemistry using the PROSPECT leaf optical properties model.   Remote Sensing of Environment 56: 194-202.

27. Grossman, Y.L., S.L. Ustin, E. Sanderson, S. Jacquemoud, G. Schmuck and J. Verdebout. 1996.  Critique of Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression for the Extraction of Leaf Biochemistry Information from Leaf Reflectance Data.  Remote Sensing of Environment 56: 182-193.

26. DeFries, R., Field, C., Fung, A., Justice, C., Los, S., Matson, P., Matthews, M., Mooney, H., Potter, C., Prentice, K., Sellers, P., Townshend, J., Tucker, C., Ustin, S., Vitousek, P. 1995.  Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biopshere models:  toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties.  Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres  100:20, 867-882.

25. Martens, S.N., S.L. Ustin, and R.A. Rousseau. 1993. Estimation of tree canopy leaf area index by gap fraction analysis.  Forest Ecology and Management  61: 91-108.

24. Gamon, J.A., C.B. Field, D.A. Roberts, S.L. Ustin, and V. Riccardo.  1993.  Functional patterns in an annual grassland during an AVIRIS overflight.  Remote Sensing of Environment 44:239-253

23. Curtiss, B. and S.L. Ustin.  1993.  Effects of ozone exposures on the spectra of foliage of loblolly pine measured at the University of Georgia experimental forest.  National Council on Air and Stream Improvement.

22. Kasischke, E.S., H.H.F. French, P. Harrell, N.L. Christensen Jr., S.L. Ustin, and D. Barry.  1992.  Monitoring of Wildfires in Boreal Forests Using AVHRR Large Area Coverage Imagery.  Remote Sensing of Environment 41:1-10.

21. Ustin, S.L. 1992.  (book review)  Theory and Applications of Optical Remote Sensing.  G. Asrar (ed.).  John Wiley and Sons, New York.  734pp.  Optical Engineering.  31:375-377.

20. Matson, P.A. and S.L. Ustin.  1991.  The future of remote sensing in ecological studies.  Ecology 72: 1917.

19. Ustin, S.L., C.A. Wessman, B. Curtiss, E. Kasischke, J. Way, and V.C. Vanderbilt.  1991.  Opportunities for using the EOS imaging spectrometers and synthetic aperture radar in ecological models.  Ecology 72: 1934-1945.

18. Way, J.B., J. Paris, M.C. Dobson, K.McDonald, F.T. Ulaby, J.A. Weber,  S.L. Ustin, V.C. Vanderbilt, and E.S. Kasischke. 1991.  Diurnal change in trees as observed by optical and microwave sensors:  The EOS Synergism Study.  Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing  29:  807-821.

17. Ustin, S.L., S.N. Martens, and V.C. Vanderbilt.  1991.  Canopy architecture of a walnut orchard.  Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing   29: 843-851.

16. Weber, J.A. and S.L. Ustin.  1991.  Diurnal water relations of walnut trees: Implications for Remote Sensing. Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing   29: 864-874.

15. Vanderbilt, V.C., S.L. Ustin, K.M. Berger, W.F. Caldwell, J.A. Clark, B.D. Ganapol, E.S. Kasischke, S.N. Martens, R.E. Pettigrew, and R.A. Rousseau. 1991.  Biophysical information in Asymmetric and symmetric diurnal bi-directional canopy reflectance.  Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing  29: 875-889.

14. Martens, S.N., S.L. Ustin, and J. Norman.  1991.  Measurement and characterization of tree canopy architecture.  International Journal of Remote Sensing 12:1525-1545

13.  Ustin, S.L. and B. Curtiss.  1990.  Spectral characteristics of ozone treated conifer species.  Environmental and Experimental Botany. 30:293-308.

12. Smith, M.O., S.L. Ustin, J.B. Adams, and A.R. Gillespie. 1990.  Vegetation in deserts I.  A regional measure of abundances from multispectral images.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  29: 1-26.

11. Smith, M.O., S.L. Ustin, J.B. Adams, and A.R. Gillespie.  1990. Vegetation in deserts II.  Environmental influences on regional abundance.  Remote Sensing of Environment. 29: 27-52.

10. Paw U, K.T., S.L. Ustin, and C.-A. Zhang.  1989. Anistropy of thermal infrared exitance in sunflower canopies.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 48:45-58.

9.     Sage, P.F., S.L. Ustin, and S. J. Manning.  1989. Boron toxicity in the rare serpentine plant, Streptanthus morrisonii.  Environmental Pollution  61:77-93.                

8.     Ustin S. L. and B. Curtiss.  1989.  Spectral characteristics of ozone treated conifers.  In National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. 260 Madison Ave., N.Y., N.Y.  Technical Bulletin No. 570.  21p.

7.     Ustin, S. L., B. Curtiss, S.N. Martens and V. C. Vanderbilt.  1989.  Early detection of air pollution injury to coniferous forests using remote sensing.  In National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. 260 Madison Ave., N.Y., N.Y.   Technical Bulletin No. 571.  25p.

6.    Thomas, R. W. and S. L. Ustin.  1987. Discriminating semiarid vegetation using AIS data:  A preliminary assessment.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  23:273-290.

5.    Ustin, S. L., J. B. Adams, C. D. Elvidge, M. Rejmanek, B. N. Rock, M. O. Smith, R. W. Thomas, and R. A. Woodward.  1986. Thematic Mapper studies of semiarid shrub communities.  BioScience  36:446-452.

4.    Ustin, S. L., R. A. Woodward, M. G. Barbour, and J. L. Hatfield. 1984. Relationships between sunfleck dynamics and red fir seedling distribution.  Ecology 65:1420-1428.

3.    Ustin, S. L.  Contrasting salinity responses of two halophytes.  1984. California Agriculture. 38 (10):27-28.

2.    Pearcy, R. W., and S. L. Ustin.  1984. Effects of salinity on growth and photosynthesis of three California tidal march species.  Oecologia  62:68-73. 

1.    Ustin, S. L., R. W. Pearcy and D. E. Bayer.  1982. Water relations in a San Francisco Bay salt marsh.  Botanical Gazette.  143: 368-373.

 

Book Contributions and Theses

38. Jacquemoud, S. and S.L. Ustin (2019) Leaf Optics. Cambridge Press (in press).

37. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (2019) Thriving on our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space.  Space Sciences Board, National Academy Press 691 pages.

36. Ustin, S. and S. Jacquemoud (2018). How the Optical Properties of Leaves Modify the Absorption and Scattering of Energy and Enhance Leaf Functionality.  Cahp. 2.3. In Cavender-Bares, J., J. Gamon, P. Townsend, ed. Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity.  Springer.

35. Asner, G.P., S.L. Ustin, P. Townsend, R.E. Martin, and K.D. Chadwick. 2014.  Forest biophysical and biochemical properties from hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing. In Prasad S. Thenkabail, ed. Handbook of Remote Sensing, Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing.  Chapter 16: 429-448.

34. Hunt E.R., Jr., S.L. Ustin and D. Riaño 2013. Remote Sensing of Leaf, Canopy and Vegetation Water Contents for Satellite Environmental Data Records.  In Satellite-based Applications of Climate Change,    J.J. Qu, A.M. Powell and M.V.K. Sivakumar (eds.). Springer, New York, pp. 335-358.

33.  Ustin, S.L., D. Riano, A. Koltunov, D.A. Roberts and P.E. Dennison. 2009.   Mapping fire risk in Mediterranean Ecosystems of California: Vegetation type, Density, Invasive Species, and Fire. In Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems (Emilio Chuvieco, ed.).  Springer p. 41-55.

32.  Chuvieco, E., J. Wagtendok, D. Riaño M. Yebra and S. Ustin. 2009.  Fuel conditions in fire danger assessment.  In Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems (Emilio Chuvieco, ed.).  Springer p. 83-96. 

31.  National Research Council, 2008.  Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 years of Scientific Achievements. National Academies Press. 129 pp. www.nap.edu.

30.  Ustin, S.L., S. Jacquemoud, A. Palacios-Orueta, L. Li, and M.L. Whiting. 2005.  Remote Sensing Based Assessment of Biophysical Indicators for Land Degradation and Desertification. In Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification, Trier, Germanay, 2005.  Edited by A. Röder and J. Hill. Pp. 2-21.

28.  Ustin, S.L. (volume editor) 2004. Manual of Remote Sensing Vol. 4.  Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring.  John Wiley and Sons, New York 736p. +cd.

27.  Kasischke, E.S., S. Goetz, M. Hansen, M. Ozdogan, J. Rogan, S.L. Ustin and C.E. Woodcock, Temperate and boreal forests. 2004. In Manual of Remote Sensing Vol. 4.  Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring.ASPRS.  John Wiley and Sons, New York 736p. +cd. (S.L. Ustin, vol. Ed.). ASPRS.  John Wiley and Sons, New York, pages 147-238.

26. Ustin, S.L., S. Jacquemoud, P. Zarco-Tejada, and G. Asner. 2004.  Remote Sensing of Environmental Processes:  State of the Science and New Directions.In Manual of Remote Sensing Vol. 4.  Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring.ASPRS.  John Wiley and Sons, New York 768p. +cd. (S.L. Ustin, vol. Ed.). ASPRS.  John Wiley and Sons, New York, pages 679-730.                   

25.  National Research Council, 2000. Committee on Earth Studies. Issues in the integration of research and operational satellite systems for climate research.  II.  Implementation.  82p. isbn:/0-309-06994-7.

24.  NRC, 2000. The role of small satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs.  92p.: isbn/0309-06499982-3.

23.  National Research Council, 2000. Committee on Earth Studies. Issues in the integration of research and operational satellite systems for climate research.  I. Science and design. 134p. isbn/0-309-0695-8.

22.  National Research Council, 2000.  Ecosystems Panel. Global Change Ecosystems Research 48p. isbn:/0-309-07148-8.  

21.  National Research Council, 2000. Committee on Earth Studies. Ensuring the climate record from the NPP and NPOESS meteorological satellites.  51p. isbn:/0-309-06994-7.

20. National Research Council, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications.  1999.  Task Group on Assessment of NASA Plans for Post-2002 Earth Observing Missions, 15 p. + 28 p. appendix.  National Academy Press.                     

19.  National Research Council, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications.  1999.  Task Group on Assessment of NASA Plans for Post-2002 Earth Observing Missions, 15 p. + 28 p. appendix.  National Academy Press.

18.  Ustin, S.L. and L.A. Costick. 1999.  Multispectral remote sensing over semi-arid landscapes for resource management. In Spatial Information for Land Management, M.J. Hill and R.J. Aspinall (eds.), Gordon and Breach Publishers, Reading, UK. Pp. 97-112.

17.  Ustin, S.L., M.O. Smith, S. Jacquemoud, M.M. Verstraete and Y. Govaerts.  1999. Geobotany:   Vegetation Mapping for Earth Sciences.  In:  Remote Sensing for the Earth Sciences, Manual of Remote Sensing, 3rd Edition, Vol. 3.  A.  

16.  National Research Council, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications. 1998.  Interactions between research and operational earth observation systems: Initial Steps. Letter Report, National Academy Press.

15.  Ustin, S.L., D.A. Roberts, and Q.J. Hart. 1998. Seasonal vegetation patterns in a California coastal savanna derived from Advanced Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Data.  In: Remote Sensing Change Detection: Environmental Monitoring Applications and Methods, Elvidge, C.D, and Lunetta, R. (Eds.), Ann Arbor Press, MI. Pp. 163-180 + color plate.

14.National Research Council,1997. Board on Agriculture; Committee on Assessing Crop Yield:  Site-specific farming, information systems, and research opportunities, Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century: Geospatial and Information Technologies in Crop Management.. National Academy Press, 118p: isbn /0-309-05643-8.    http://www.nap.edu/bookstore/isbn/0309056438.html

13. Ustin, S.L., W.W. Wallender, L. Costick, R. Lobato, S.N. Martens, J. Pinzon, and Q.F. Xiao. 1996.  Modeling terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses into Hydrologic Regime in a California watershed. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project:  Final report to Congress, Volume III: 275-307 +22 figures. 

12.  French, N.H.F., E. Kasischke, R. D. Johnson, L. L. Bourgeau-Chavez, A. L. Frick and S. L. Ustin. 1996.  Estimating fire-related carbon flux in Alaska boreal forests using multi-sensor remote sensing data. Biomass Burning and Climate Change,  J.S. Levine (ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, vol. 2: 808-826.

11.  Ustin, S.L., M.O. Smith, and J.B. Adams.  1993.  Remote Sensing of Ecological Processes:  A strategy for Developing Ecological Models Using Spectral Mixture Analysis.   In J. Ehlringer and C. Field (Eds.) Scaling Physiological Processes:  Leaf to Globe.  Academic Press, New York, p.339-357.

10.  Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.  1993.  Effects of increased ultraiolet radiation on global ecosystems, SCOPE Technical Report  1993.  Based on UV-B Workshop in Sassari, (Sardinia) Italy.

9.     Ustin, S. L.  1992.  Chapter F.  Thematic mapper vegetation cover model.  D. H. Wilson, R.J. Reginato, and K. J. Hollett (Eds).  United States Department of the Interior, Geolocical Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4159.

8.     Vanderbilt, V.C., L. Grant, and S.L. Ustin.  1990.  Polarization of light by vegetation.  In.  J. Ross and R.B. Mynani (Eds.) Photon-Vegetation Interactions:  Applications in Optical Remote sensing and Plant Ecology.  Springer-Verlag  p. 194-228.

7.    Ustin, S. L., B. Curtiss, S. N. Martens, and V. C. Vanderbilt. 1989.  Early detection of air pollution injury to coniferous forests using remote sensing.  In Transactions:  Effects of Air Pollution on Western Forests.  R. K. Olson and A. S. Lefohn (eds).  Air and Waste Management Association.  (ISBN 0-923204-03-2), p. 351-378.

6.     Ustin, S. L., B. Curtiss, S. Martens, and V. Vanderbilt.  1989. Use of high spectral resolution sensors to detect air pollution injury in conifer forests.  In Remote Sensing Applications for Acid Deposition.  L. K. Fenstermaker (ed.) U.S. E.P.A. Publ. No. 814002.  Las Vegas, NV p. 72-85.

5.     Woodward, R. A., and S. L. Ustin.  1988.  Differences in successional vegetation of a sagebrush community following wildfire on o diverse substrates.  In Plant Biology of Eastern California, Mary DeDecker Symposium.  C. A. Hall, Jr. and V. Doyle-Jones (eds.) University of California White Mountain Research Station.  April 30 - May 3, 1987.  p. 269-276.

4.     Ustin, S. L., M. O. Smith, and J. B. Adams.  1988. Vegetation patterns derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper Images in Owens Valley.  In Plant Biology of Eastern California, Mary De Decker Symposium.  C. A. Hall, Jr. and V. Doyle-Jones (eds.) University of California White Mountain Research Station.  April 30-May 3, 1987.  p. 269-276.

3.     Ustin, S. L., B. Rock, and R. A. Woodward.  1986.  Use of remote sensing techniques in the analysis of semi-arid shrub communities.  In Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California and Western Nevada and High Altitude Physiology:  University of California, White Mountain Research Station Symposium.  Vol. 1, August 23 - 25, 1985.  p. 84-98; frontispiece.

2.     Ustin, S. L.  1983.  Ecophysiological adaptation to salinity in three closely related Scirpus species (Cyperaceae).  Ph.D.  Diss. Univ. Calif. Davis 126p.

  1. Ustin, S.L. 1977.  Geographic variation in relative cone bract length, cotyledon number and monoterpene composition of Abies magnifica in the southern Sierra Nevada.  M.A. Thesis, California State University, Hayward, 91p.

 

Non-Reviewed Publications and Scientific Proceedings:

 

129. Ade, C., Hestir, E.L., Khanna, S., Ustin, S.L. (2016). High resolution mapping of wetland ecosystems: Spot-5 Take 5 for evaluation of Sentinel-2. Proceedings of ESA Living Planet Symposium. European Space Agency, Prague.

128.  Kefauver, S.C., J. Peñuelas, S.L. Ustin. 2012.  Applications of hyperspectral remote sensing and GIS for assessing forest health and air pollution.  Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International.  Pp. 3379 – 3382, Munich, Germany 22-27 July 2012

127.  Santos, M.J.,S. Dobrowski,S. Ustin  2012. Bioclimatic limitations on global forests as measured by a fused remote sensing-climate approachGeoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International.  Pp. 1155-157, Munich, Germany 22-27 July 2012

126. Cheng, T. D. Riaño, A. Koltunov; M.L. Whiting and SL. Ustin. 2011. Remote detection of water stress in orchard canopies using MODIS/ASTER airborne simulator (MASTER) data. SPIE 15 September 2011; 7 pages; 27 papers; 
DOI: 10.1117/12.89288

124.  Li, L., S.L. Ustin, D. Riano and Y.B. Cheng. 2010. Estimation of vegetation water content through GA-PLS modeling of MODIS reflectance data, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2115-2118, July 25-30, 2010, Honolulu, HI.

123. Ustin, S.L. and M.J. Santos. 2010. Spectral identification of native and non-native plant species. ASD & IEEE Symposium, “Art, Science and Applications of Reflectance Spectroscopy”, Boulder, CO February 24-25, 2010.

122. Whiting, M.L. and S.L. Ustin. 2009. Mapping of desert biological soil crust using hyperspectral water bands. Proceedings European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) SIG Imaging Spectroscopy (IS) Workshop.  16-18 March, 2009. Tel Aviv, Israel.

121. Ustin, S.L., M.J. Santos, S.C. Kefauver, M.L. Whiting. 2009. Remote Sensing of Biological Soil Crust Under Simulated Climate Change. Proceedings European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) SIG Imaging Spectroscopy (IS) Workshop.  16-18 March, 2009. Tel Aviv, Israel.

120. Khanna, S., M.J. Santos, E. Hestir, J.A. Greenberg & S.L. Ustin. 2009. Patterns of change in water hyacinth distribution in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Proceedings of the California Invasive Plant Council Symposium. 102-106.

119. Jiang, Z., L. Li and S.L. Ustin. 2009.  Estimation of canopy water content with MODIS spectral index. Proceedings of the SPIE 7454,74540V, 2009 San Diego, CA.

118. Santos, M.J., L.W. Anderson & S.L. Ustin. 2009. Spatial patterns in native and exotic submersed aquatic plant species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Proceedings of the California Invasive Plant Council Symposium. 96-99.

117. Ustin, S.L., D. Riaño and M. Trombetti.  2008. Estimating Canopy Water Content from Airborne and Satellite Platforms.  Proceedings International Workshop on Advances in Operational Weather Systems for Fire Danger Rating, GOFC/GOLD  14-16 July 2008, Edmonton, Canada.

116.Santos, M.J., S. Khanna, S. Rajapakse, E.L. Hestir, M.E. Andrew, J.A. Greenberg & S.L. Ustin. 2007.  Bringing hyperspectral methods to applied science: active management of invasive species in the California Delta. Proceedings of the AVIRIS Earth Science and Applications workshop. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.

115.  Goodenough, D.G., J.Y.  Li1, G.P. Asner, M.E. Schaepman, S.L. Ustin, and A. Dyk, 2006. Combining hyperspectral remote sensing and physical modeling for applications in land ecosystems. Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4, 2006, Denver, CO.

114. Kefauver, S.C., J. Greenberg, and S. Ustin, 2006.  Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Ozone Impacts on Bio-Indicator Species Using Imaging Spectroscopy.  International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

113.  Jacquemoud, S., W. Verhoef, F. Baret, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, G. Asner, C. François, and S.L. Ustin, 2006. Retrieval of Quantitative and Qualitative Information about Plant Pigment Systems from High Resolution Spectroscopy. Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

112.  Roberts, D.A., Asner, G.P., Dennison, P.E., Halligan, K.E., and Ustin, S.L., 2006. Ecological Applications of Imaging Spectrometry: Examples from Fire danger, Plant Functional Types and Disturbance.  Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

111.  Ustin,  S.L., J. MacDonald, and M. Schaepman, 2006.  A Review of the Contributions of Dr. Alexander F. H. Goetz to Imaging Spectrometry.  Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

110.  Ustin, S.L., G.P. Asner, J.A. Gamon, K.F. Huemmrich, S. Jacquemoud, M. Schaepman, P. Zarco-Tejada,  2006.  Retrieval of Quantitative and Qualitative Information about Plant Pigment Systems from High Resolution Spectroscopy. Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

109.  Schaepman, M.E., Green, R., Ungar, S.G., Curtiss, B., Boardman, J., Plaza, A., Gao, B.-C., Ustin, S., Kokaly, R., Miller, J.R., Jacquemoud, S., Ben-Dor, E., Clark, R., Davis, C., Dozier, J., Goodenough, D. G., Roberts, D., Swayze, G., Rowan, L.and Goetz, A.F.H., 2006.  The Future of Imaging Spectroscopy –Prospective Technologies and Applications. Invited Session:  State of Science of Environmental Applications of Imaging Spectroscopy for International GeoSciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-06) July 31- Aug. 4,  2006, Denver, CO.

108.  Riaño, D., E. Chuvieco, S.L. Ustin, J. Salas, L.M. Ribeiro, and J.M. Moreno. 2005.  Estimation of shrub height for fuel type mapping combining airborne Lidar and simultaneous and co-registered colour infrared images.  EARSEL, Zaragoza Spain, June 2005.

107.  Riaño, D., S.L. Ustin, and L. Usero. 2005. Estimation of fuel moisture content using neural networks. Proceedings IWINAC2005 conference.  June 15-18, 2005, Los Palmas, Spain. Springer-Verlag (LNCS).

106.  Whiting, M.L., A. Palacios Orueta, L. Li, and S.L. Ustin. 2005. Light Absorption Model for Water Content to Improve Soil mineral Estimates in Hyperspectral Imagery In:  Pecora 16 Global Priorities in land Remote Sensing, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 23-27, 2005.

105.  Moreno-Ruiz  J., D. Riaño, J. Barón-Martínez, S.L. Ustin. 2005.  Statistical analysis of burned area data from NOAA/NASA Pathfinder AVHRR 8 km land dataset for the tropical Africa (1981-2000) as the basis for forecasting wildfire risk. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop in Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment.  June 16-18, 2005 Zaragoza, Spain

104.  Vanderbilt, V.C., J.A. Greenberg and S.L. Ustin. The Impact of Mismatched Pixel Sizes. Moffett Field, Ca.WG VII/1 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing  (ISPMSRS), 17-19 Oct 2005 Beijing, China.

103.  Palacios Orueta, A. S. Khanna, J. Litago, M.K. Whiting, and S.L. Ustin. 2005. Assessment of NDVI and NDWI spectral indices using MODIS time series analysis and development of a new spectral index based on MODIS shortwave infrared bands. Proc. Remote Sensing and Geoinformaiton Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification. In support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Trier, Germany 7-9 September 2005.

102.  Riaño, D., M.A. Patricio, P. Zarco-Tejada, C. Rueda, L. Usero, S.L. Ustin.  2005. Estimation of equivalent water thickness using radial basis function neural networks. Proc. Remote Sensing and Geoinformaiton Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification. In support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Trier, Germany 7-9 September 2005.

101.  Usero L., Riano D., Zarco-Tejada P.J., Ustin S.L. 2005. Estimacidel contenido de agua del combustible mediante el uso de redes neuronales artificiales. In 'Actas del Simposio de Inteligencia Computacional, SICO2005 ' pp. 423-430. (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, SC, Thomson)

100.  Ustin, S.L., Jacquemoud, S., Palacios-Orueta, A., Li, L., Whiting, M.L. 2005. Remote Sensing Based Assessment of Biophysical Indicators for Land Degredation and Desertification.  1st International Conference of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing  Sep. 7-9, 2005, Trier, Germany.  KeyNote Address. Proc. Remote Sensing and Geoinformaiton Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification. In support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Trier, Germany 7-9 September 2005.

99.  Riano, D., Patrico, M.A., Zarco-Tejada, P., Rueda, C., Usero, L., Ustin, S.L.  2005. Estimation of equivalent water thickness using radial basis function neural networks.  1st International Confrence of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing  Sep. 7-9, 2005, Trier, Germany.

98. Ustin, S.L., M.C. Lay and L. Li. 2004.  Remote sensing of wetland conditions in West Coast sal marshes, In Proceedings of SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, Aug. 2-4, 2004, Denver, CO.

97. Mulitsch, M.J. S.L. Ustin, L. Li. 2004. Effects of global climate change on San Francisco Bay estuary communities.  Proceedings of the 12th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 25-28 February 2003.

96.   Zarco-Tejada, P.J., S.L. Ustin, and M. Whiting. 2004. Temporal and Spatial Relationships between Cotton Yield and High-Spatial Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery.  Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Precision Agriculture and Other Precision Resources Management, Minneapolis, MN, July 25-28, 2004.

95.  Olmstead, K., S. Ustin, and T. Ernst. 2004.  Using CART modeling and AVIRIS imagery for assessing risk of weed invasion at Vandenberg air Force base.  Proceedings of the 13th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 28 March-April 1, 2004.

94.  Whiting, M.L., L. Li, and S.L. Ustin. 2004. Correcting mineral abundance estimates for soil moisture.  Proceedings of the 13th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 28 March-April 1, 2004.

93.  Goodman, J.A., J. Marcos, J. Montes and S.L. Ustin.2004.  Applying Tafkaa for Atmospheric Correction of AVIRIS Over Coral Ecosystems in the Hawai’ian Islands.  Proceedings of the 13th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 28 March-April 1, 2004.

92.  Jacquemoud, S. and S.L. Ustin. 2003.  Application of radiative transfer models to moisture content estimation and burned land mapping. Joint International Workshop of EARSel Special Interest Group on Forest Fires and the GOFC/GOLD-Fire Program, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 5-7 June 2003.

91.  Rosso, P. S. Ustin and A. Hastings. 2003. Use of Lidar to produce high resolution marsh vegetation and terrain maps.In: Three Dimensional Mapping from InSAR and LIDAR, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). June 17-19, 2003, Portland, Oregon.

90.  Goodman, J.A. and S.L. Ustin. 2002.  Underwater spectroscopy: Methods and applications in a coral reef environment.  Seventh International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine Coastal Environments.  Miami, FL 20-22 May 2002.

89.  Goodman, J.A. and S.L. Ustin.  2002. Hyperspectral image calibration in a coral reef environment: An empirical approach.   Proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS-2002. Toronto, Canada. June 24-28, 2002.

88.  Goodman, J.A. and S.L. Ustin.  2002.  Hyperspectral remote sensing of coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands using AVIRIS.  Eleventh Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Brisbane, Australia 2-6 September 2002

87. Whiting, M.L., L. Li, and S.L. Ustin. 2003.  Estimating surface soil moisture in simulated AVIRIS spectra.  Proceedings of the 12th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 25-28 February 2003.

86. Goward, S.N., A.F.H Goetz, J.R. Schott, K. Thome, J.J.R. Townshend, S.L. Ustin and C.E. Woodcock. 2002. The Resource21 science advisory board: recommendations for a global observatory to continue the Landsat mission heritage.  PECORA XV, Joint meeting with International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission I Sensors, Platforms and Imagery.  10-15 November 2002, Denver, CO.

85.  Goodman, J. and S.L. Ustin. 2002. Acquisition of underwater reflectance measurements as ground truth.  Proceedings of the 11th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA March 6-8, 2002.

84.  Ustin, S.L. 2002.  Remote Measurement of Environmental Processes:  State of the science and new directions.  NSF Community workshop on instrumentation for HIAPER.  National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO. Nov. 4-6, 2002.

83.  Ustin, S.L., D.A. Roberts, M. Gardner, and P. Dennison, 2002.  Evaluation of the Potential of Hyperion Data to Estimate Wildfire Hazard in the Santa Ynez Front Range, Santa Barbara, California. Proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS-2002. Toronto, Canada. June 24-28, 2002

82. Ustin, S.L., D. DiPietro, K. Olmstead, E. Underwood, and G.J. Scheer. 2002. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Invasive Species Detection and Mapping. Proceedings of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS-2002. Toronto, Canada. June 24-28, 2002.

81.   Root, R., S. Ustin, P. Zarco-Tejada, C. Pinilla, R. Kokaly, G. Anderson, K. Brown, K. Dudek, S. Hager, and E. Holroyd, 2001. Comparison of AVIRIS and EO-1 Hyperion for classification and mapping of invasive leafy spurge in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.  Proceedings of the 11th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March 6-8, 2002.

80.   DiPietro, D., S. L. Ustin, E. Underwood,  2002. Mapping the invasive plant Aarundo donax and associated riparian vegetationusing AVIRIS.  Proceedings of the 11th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March 6-8, 2002.

79.  Underwood, E., S.L. Ustin, and D. DiPietro, 2002. Mapping non-native plants using hyperspectral imagery. Proceedings of the 11th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March 6-8, 2002.

78.   Zarco-Tejada, P.J.,  and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Modeling Canopy Water Content for Carbon Estimates from MODIS data at Land EOS Validation Sites.  IGARRS Meeting, Sydney, Australia, July 2001.

77.  Moreno, J., L. Alonso, M.C. Gonzalez, J.C. Garcia, C. Cunat, F. Montero, A. Brasa, O. Botella, R.J. Zomer, and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Vegetation properties from imaging data acquired at Barrax in 1998, 1999, and 2000.   DASIX Meeting, European Space Agency, Nordvik, Netherlands, April, 17, 2001, SP. 499: 197-208.

76.  Whiting, M.J., A. Palacios-Orueta, L. Alonso, M.C. Gonzalez-Sampedro, J. Moreno, and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Derivation of Soil Composition from Imaging Spectrometer data at Tomelloso. DASIX Meeting, European Space Agency, Nordvik, Netherlands, April, 17, 2001, SP. 499: 225-234.

75. Gonzalez-Sampedro, M.C. R. Zomer, J. MorenoL. Alonso-Chorda, and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Direct gradient analysis as a new tool for interpretation of the hyperspectral remote sensing data: application to HYMAP/DAISEX-99 data.

74. Goodman, J. and S. Ustin. 2001.  Assessment and monitoring of coral reefs in the northwestern Hawaiian Istlands using hyperspectral remote sensing.  Proceedings Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology, San Francisco, CA 21-26 June 2001.

73.  Goodman, J.A. and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Hyperspectral image analysis of coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands.  Proceedings of the 10th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 27-March 2, 2000.  JPL Publ. 02-1: 161-168.

72.  Whiting, M.L. and S.L. Ustin, 2001. Correlating AVIRIS imagery to field sampling and spectrometer measurements for inorganic soil carbon.  Proceedings of the 10th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 27-March 2, 2000.  JPL Publ. 02-1: 455-462.

71.   Ustin, S.L., Zarco-Tejada, P.J. , and Asner, G.P.   2001. The Role of Hyperspectral Data in Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle, Proceedings of the 10th Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 27-March 2, 2001.  JPL Publ. 02-1: 397-410.

70.  Jacquemoud, S. and  S.L. Ustin. 2001.  Leaf Optical Properties: A State Of The Art.  8th Int. Symp. Physical Measurements & Signatures in Remote Sensing.  ISPRS, 8-12 Jan. 2001. Aussois, France, pp. 223-232.

69.  Garcia, M. and S. L. Ustin.  2001.  Patrones espacio-temporales de la estructura de la vegetacion y su relacion con la variabilidad climatica anual y estacional.

68. O’Neill, M. S.L. Ustin, S. Hager, and R. Root, 2000.  Mapping the distribution of leafy spurge at Theodore Roosevelt National Park using AVIRIS.Proc. 9th AVIRIS Earth Science Workshop, JPL Pasadena, CA. JPL Publ. 00-18: 339-348.

67. Goodman, J.A and S.L. Ustin.  2000. Hyperspectral image analysis of coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands. Proc. 9th AVIRIS Earth Science Workshop, JPL Pasadena, CA, JPL Publ. 00-18.

66. Garcia, M., and S.L. Ustin, 2000.  Interannual response of vegetation to climatic variability in a coastal savanna in California.  Proc. 9th AVIRIS Earth Science Workshop, JPL Pasadena, CA. JPL Publ. 00-18: 165-174.

65.  Teixeira, A. D., and S.L. Ustin, 2000.  Use of Biweekly High Resolution Aerial Images in Precision Farming, 2000 ASAE Annual International Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA July 9-12, 2000. No. 003057.  ASAE, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659 USA.

64.  Roberts, D.A., Dennison, P., Ustin, S.L., Reith, E., and Morais, M.  1999. Development of a Regionally Specific Library  for the Santa Monica Mountains using High  Resolution AVIRIS Data. Proc. 8th AVIRIS Earth Science Workshop, JPL Pasadena, CA. JPL Publ. 99-17: 349-354.

63.   Dennison,  P.E., Roberts, D.A., Reith, E., Regelbrugge, J and Ustin, S.L. 1999. Integrating Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Imaging Spectrometry for Wildlands.  Proc. 1999 fuel Mapping in Southern California, Joint Fire Science Conference Workshop, June 17-19,  Boise, Idaho, 6 pp.

62.  Roberts, D.A., Dennison,P.E., Morais, M.,Gardner, M.E., Regelbrugge, J., and Ustin, S.L. 1999. Mapping Wildfire Fuels using Imaging Spectrometry along the Wildland Urban Interface, Proc. 1999 Joint Fire Science Conference and Proceedings Workshop, June 17-19,  Boise, Idaho, 13 pp.

61.  Gamon, J.A., H.-L. Qiu, D.A. Roberts, S.L. Ustin, D.A. Fuentes, A. Rahman, D. Sims, C. Stylinski. 1999. Water expressions from hyperspectral reflectance: implications for ecosystem flux modeling. Proceedings of the Eight Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 10-12, 1999. JPL Publ. 99-17: 117-126.

60.  Whiting, M.L. and S.L. Ustin, 1999. Use of low altitude AVIRIS data for identifying salt affected soil surfaces in western Fresno County, California. Proceedings of the Eight Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 10-12, 1999. JPL Publ. 99-17: 443-450.

59.  Xiao, Q.-F., S.L. Ustin, E.G. McPherson, and P.L. Pepper. 1999. Characterization of the structure and species composition of urban trees  using high resolution AVIRIS data. Proceedings of the Eight Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, February 10-12, 1999. JPL Publ. 99-17: 451-460.

58.  Gamon, J. L.-F. Lee, H.-L. Qiu, S. Davis, D. Roberts, and S. Ustin.  1998  A multi-scale sampling strategy for detecting physiologically significant signals in AVIRIS imagery. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998.  JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 111-120.

57. Green, R. O.,  D. Roberts, and S. Ustin.  1998  Mapping Agricultural Crops with AVIRIS Spectra in Washington State. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 213-220.

56.  Palacios-Orueta, A., J.E. Pinzon, D.A. Roberts, and S.L. Ustin.  1998.  Remote sensing of soil properties in the Santa Monica Mountains observed with AVIRIS. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 309-318.

55. Sanderson, E. W.  and S.L. Ustin. 1998.  Evaluation of Landscape Structure Using AVIRIS Quicklooks and Ancillary Data. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 355-364.

54.  Roberts, D. M. Gardner, J. Regelbrugge, D. Pedreiros, and S. Ustin. 1998.  Mapping the distribution of wild fire fuels using AVIRIS in the Santa Monica Mountains. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 345-352.

53.  Vanderbilt, V.C., V. Ambrosia, and S.L. Ustin.  1998.  Diurnal reflectance changes in vegetation observed with AVIRIS. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 399-408.

52. Lobato, Rene, S.L. Ustin, and S. Martens. 1998.   Predicción de lluvia en zonas mountañosas utilizando datos históricos, In. IAHR XVII Congreso Latino Americano de Hidráulica Oaxaca, México, Oct. 1998.

51. Zhang, M., Hendley, P., Drost, D., M., O'Neill, and S. Ustin, 1998.  Corn and soybean yield indicators using remotely sensed vegetation index.  Proc. 4th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, St. Paul, MN. 2: 1475-1481.

50. Pinzon, J.E., S.L. Ustin, and J.F. Pierce.  1998.  Robust feature extraction for hyperspectral imagery using both spatial and spectral redundancies.  Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 325-334.

49.  Roberts, D., K. Brown, R. Green, S. Ustin, and T. Hinckley.  1998.  Investigating the relationship between liquid water and leaf area in clonal Populus. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. JPL Publ. 97-21, vol. 1, p. 335-344.

48.  Palacios-Orueta, A., J.E.Pinzon, S.L. Ustin, and D.A. Roberts, 1998  Remote sensing of soil properties in the Santa Monica Mountains using AVIRIS. Proceedings of the Seventh Earth Science Airborne Workshop, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, January 12-14, 1998. (in Press).

47.  Perry, G.L., J.A. Stern, V.C. Vanderbilt, S.L. Ustin, M.C. Diaz Barriois, L.A. Morrissey, G.P. Livingstone, F.-M. Breon, S. Bouffies, M.M. Leroy, M. Herman, and J.-Y. Balois, 1997. Remote Sensing of high-latitude wetlands using polarized wide angle imagery. SPIE Conf. Vol 3118, Imaging Spectrometry III p.  . Presented at the 42nd Annual SPIE meeting, July 27 to Aug. 1, 1997, San Diego, CA.

46. Roberts, D.A., M.Gardner, R. Church, S.L. Ustin, and R.O. Green, 1997.  Optimum strategies for mapping vegetation using multiple endmember spectral mixture models, SPIE Conf. Vol 3118, Imaging Spectrometry III, 12 p. Presented at the 42nd Annual SPIE meeting, July 27 to Aug. 1, 1997, San Diego, CA. Pp. 108-119.

45.  Gonzalez-Alonso, F., S.L. Ustin, A. Palacios-Orueta, and M. Gardner.  1997. Cartografia del compustible en el chaparral de California mediante el Analisis de Mezclas espectrales en imagenes AVIRIS, VII Congreso Nacional de Teledeteccion, Teledeteccion Aplicada a la Gestion de Recursos Naturales y Medio Litoral Marino, 26-28 Munio 1997.

44. Jacquemoud, S., J.-P. Frangi, Y. Govaerts, and S.L. Ustin.   1997. Three-dimensional representation of leaf anatomy - Application of photon transport,  7th Int. Symp. Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, (G. Guyot & T. Phulpin, eds), April 7-11, 1997, Courchevel, France.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1997.  1:  295-302.

43. Vanderbilt, V.C., G.L. Perry, J.A. Stearn, S.L. Ustin, M.C. Diaz Barrios, S. Zedler, J. Syder, L.A. Morrissey, G.P. Livingston, F.-M. Breon, S. Bouffies, M. Leroy, M. Herman,  and J.-Y. Balois. 1997.   Discrimination of wetland and non-wetland, community typs with multi-spectral, muolti-angle, polarized data.  7th Int. Symp. Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, (G. Guyot & T. Phulpin, eds), April 7-11, 1997, Courchevel, France.  A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1997. 2: 809-813.

42.  Pettygrove, S., R.O. Miller, R.E. Plant, L.F. Jackson, M.D. Cahn, T.E. Kearney, R.F. Denison, J. Young, S. Upadhyaya, and S. Ustin, 1997. Developing site-specific farming information for cropping systems in California, Proc. 25th Anniversary California Plant and Soil Conference, Visalia, Jan. 15-16, 1997, p. 125-129. 

41. Jacquemoud, S., Ustin, S.L., Govaerts, Y., & Frangi, J.P. (1996). Modeling spectral and bidirectional vegetation reflectance to improve the interpretation of remote sensing data. Optical Remote Sensing of the Earth's Surface: Improving the accuracy of the interpretation. Innsbruck, Austria: Piers 1996.

40. Ustin, S.L., G. Scheer, C.M. Castaneda, S. Jacquemoud, D. Roberts, and R.O. Green. 1996.  Estimating canopy water content of chaparral shrubs using optical methods.  in 6th Airborne AVIRIS Workshop, R.O. Green (ed)., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March, 1996 JPL 96-4 Vol. 1, 235-238.

39. Gamon, J.A., L. Serrano, D.A. Roberts, and S.L. Ustin.  1996. A ground truthing method for AVIRIS overflights using canopy absorption spectra.  in 6th Airborne AVIRIS Workshop, R.O. Green (ed)., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March, 1996 JPL 96-4 Vol. 1, 93-96.

38. Roberts, D.A., M. Gardner, R. Church, S. Ustin, G. Scheer, and R.O. Green. 1996.  Mapping chaparral in the Santa Monica Mountains using multiple endmember spectral mixture models.   in 6th Airborne AVIRIS Workshop, R.O. Green (ed)., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, March, 1996,  JPL 96-4 Vol. 1, 197-202.

37. Zhang, M., J. Pinzon, S.L. Ustin, and E. Rejmankova.  1996.  Differentiating salt marsh species using foreground/gackground analysis.  in ERIM  2nd Ann. Airborne Remote Sensing Conference.  June 24-28, 1996, San Francisco, CA. I: 83-92.

36. Govaerts, Y.M., S. Jacquemoud, M.M. Verstraete, and S.L. Ustin.  1995.  Modeling plant leaf bidirectional reflectance and transmittance with a 3-d ray tracing approach.  Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS-95. 

35. Jacquemoud, S., S. L. Ustin, J. Verdebout, G. Schmuck, G. Andreoli, and B. Hosgood.  1995.  Prospect Redux.  In Summaries of the Fifth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.  January 23-26, 1995.  p.99-104.

34. Pinzon, J.E., S. L. Ustin, Q. J. Hart, S. Jacquemoud, and M. O. Smith.  1995.  Using  Foreground/Background Analysis to Determine Leaf and Canopy Chemistry.  In Summaries of the Fifth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.  January 23-26, 1995.  p.129-132.

33. Sanderson, E. W., M. H. Zhang, S. L. Ustin, E. Rejmankova, and R. S. Haxo.  1995.  Validating Spatial Structure in Canopy Water Content Using Geostatistics.  In Summaries of the Fifth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.  January 23-26, 1995.  p.141-144.

32. Hart, Q.J., S.L. Ustin, G. Scheer, and L. Duan, 1994.  Estimating dry grass biomass residues using AVIRIS image analysis.  in Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS '94.  August 8-12, 1994 California Institute of Technology. Paper No. 940532.

31. Ustin, S.L., L. Duan, Q.J. Hart. 1994. Seasonal changes observed in AVIRIS images of Jasper Ridge, California.  in Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS '94.  August 8-12, 1994 California Institute of Technology.  Paper no. 940530.

30. Ustin, S.L., L-H. Szeto, Q.-F. Xiao, Q.J. Hart, and E.S. Kasischke, 1994. Vegetation mapping of forested ecosystems in Central Alaska.  in Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS '94.  August 8-12, 1994 California Institute of Technology. Paper no. 940531.

29. Grossman, Y.L., E. Sanderson, and S.L. Ustin, 1994. Relationships between canopy chemistry and reflectance for plant species from Jasper Ridge, California, in Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS '94.  August 8-12, 1994 California Institute of Technology.

28. Kasischke, E.S., L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez, N.H.F. French, S.L. Ustin and N.L. Christensen, 1994. Monitoring carbon release in Alaskan boreal forests.  in Proceedings International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS '94.   August 8-12, 1994 California Institute of Technology.

27. Ustin, S.L., Q.J. Hart, G.J. Scheer and L. Duan.  1994.  Herbaceous biomass on hardwood rangelands in California.  Final Report.  California Division of Forestry and Fire Protection.  I.A. *CA06564.  37p. +36 plates.  Forest and Rangeland Resources Assessment Program. (FRAPP)

26. Ustin, S.L., M. Zhang, and P. Grant, 1994. Forest distribution and topographic features -- a cell-based modeling application Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)  User Conference Proceedings May 1994, Redlands, CA.

25. Verdebout, J., G. Schmuck, S. Ustin, and A.J. Sieber, 1993.  Multitemporal AVIRIS Images of forested an agricultural units in southern Germany, in SPIE Int. Symp. on Optical Eng. and Photonics in Aerospace Science and Sensing, Orlando, FL 12-16 April, 1993.  SPIE 1937: 23-31.

24. Schmuck, G., J. Verdebout, S. L. Ustin, and A. Sieber.  1993. Vegetation and biochemical indices retrieved from a multitemporal AVIRIS data set.  25th Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) Int. Symp. Remote Sens. and Global Environmental Change.  Tools for Sustainable Development.  April 4-8, 1993.  Graz, Austria.  pp.   237-281.

23. Ustin, S.L., EW. Sanderson, Y. Grossman, Q.J. Hart, and R.S. Haxo.  1993. Relationships between pigment composition variation and reflectance for plant species from a coastal savannah in California.  in Fourth Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Washington, D.C., Oct. 25-27, 1993 JPL 93-26: 181-184.

22. Hart, Q.J., S.L. Ustin, L. Duan, and G. Scheer. 1993.  Estimating dry grass residues using landscape integration analysis.  in Fourth Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25-27, 1993 JPL 93-26: 89-92.

21. Ustin, S.L., M.O. Smith, D. Roberts, J.A. Gamon, and C.B. Field.  1993. Using AVIRIS images to measure temporal trends in abundance of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic canopy components. In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 5-7.

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19. Gamon, J.A., C.B. Field, and S.L. Ustin. 1992.  Evaluation of spatial productivity patterns in an annual grassland during an AVIRIS overflight.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 17-19.

18. Roberts, D.A., M.O. Smith, D.E. Sabol, J.B. Adams, and S.L. Ustin.  1992.  Mapping the spectral variability in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation, soils and shade using AVIRIS.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 38-40.

17. Smith, M.O., J.B. Adams, S.L. Ustin, and D.A. Roberts. 1992.  Using endmembers in AVIRIS images to estimate changes in vegetative biomass.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 69-71.

16. Baret, F., C. Leprieur, S. Jacquemoud, V. Carrere, X.F. Gu, M. Steven, V. Vanderbilt, J.F. Hanocq, S. Ustin, G. Rondeaux, C. Daughtry, L. Biehl, R. Pettigrew, D. Modro, H. Horoyan, T. Sarto, C. Despontin, and H. Razafindraibe.  1992. The 1991 AVIRIS/POLDER experiment in Camargue, France.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.). NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 75-77

15. Fitzgerald, M. and S.L. Ustin.  1992. Measuring dry plant residues in grasslands:  A case study using AVIRIS.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 91-93.

14. Ustin, S.L., M.O. Smith, and J.B. Adams.  1992. Multitemporal diurnal AVIRIS images of a forested ecosystem.  In Summaries of the Third Annual JPL Airborne Geoscience Workshop, Robert O. Green (ed.).  NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 92-14, Vol. 1, pp. 141-143.

13. Ustin, S.L., G. Green, and L. Costick.  1992. UC Davis: Spectral response of conifers to air pollution in Southern California.  Calspace Annual Report.

12. Wessman, C.A., S.L. Ustin, B. Curtiss, B.-C. Gao.  1991. A conceptual framework for ecosystem modeling using remotely sensed inputs.  In Proc. Int. Soc. Photogramm. and Remote Sens. 5th Int. Colloquium.  Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing. Courchevel, France, 14-18, 1991.  esa SP-319, 2:777-782.

11. Paris, J.F. and S.L. Ustin.  1990. Quantitative estimation of standing biomass from L-band multipolarization data.  In Proc. Int. Geosci. and Remote Sens. Symp.  College Park, MD May 20-25, 1990.  p. 147-150.

10. Ustin, S.L., V.C. Vanderbilt, J. Way, E. Kashiske, F. Ulaby, and M. C. Dobson. 1990. Opportunities for EOS Instrument Synergism in monitoring of forest ecosystems.  In Proc. Int. Geosci. and Remote Sens. Symp.  College Park, MD May 20-25, 1990. p. 2301-2304.

9.  Wessman, C.A., B. Curtiss, and S.L. Ustin.  1990.  Large scale ecosystem modeling using parameters derived from imaging spectrometry data.  Imaging Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial  Environment.  Proc. SPIE 1289: 164-170. Orlando, FL  April 16-17, 1990.

8.  Curtiss, B. and S. L. Ustin.  1989.  Parameters affecting reflectance of coniferous forests in the region of chlorophyll pigment absorption.  IGARSS '89 Proc. Int. Geosci. and Remote Sens. Symp. Vancouver, BC, Canada.  July, 1989.  IEEE 89CH2768-0 Vol. 4:  2633-2636.

7.  Curtiss, B. and S. L. Ustin. 1988.  The characterization of sources of illumination in a Ponderosa pine (Pinus Ponderosa) forest community using the Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer.  SPIE Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors.  Orlando, Florida.  April 4-8, 1988.  p. 273-280.

6.  Gross, M., S. L. Ustin, and V. Klemas.  1988. Analysis of AVIRIS spectra of California wetlands.  In AVIRIS Performance Evaluation Workshop.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  JPL88-38:  128-133.  Pasadena, CA, June 6-8, 1988.

5.  Weber, J. A. and S. L. Ustin.  1988. Water relations of a walnut orchard; Simultaneous measurement with remote sensing.  IGARSS '88.  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.  Sept. 13-16, 1988.  ESA-SP284 Vol. III:  1749-1752.

4.  Gross, M. F., S. L. Ustin, and V. Klemas.  1987.  AIS-2 Spectra of California wetland vegetation.  In Proc. 3rd Airborne Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Workshop.  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.  June 1-3, 1987.  87-30:  83-90.

3.  Ustin, S. L., and B. N. Rock.  1986.  Preliminary analysis of AIS spectral data acquired from semi-arid shrub communities in the Owens Valley, California.  In Proceedings of the Second Airborne Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Workshop.  May 6-8, 1986.  Gregg Vane and Alexander F. H. Goetz, eds.  JPL Publ. No. 86-35, p. 180-186.

2.  Ustin, S. L., and B. N. Rock.  1985. Preliminary analysis of AIS spectral data acquired from semi-arid shrub communities in the Owens Valley, California.  In Proceedings of the Airborne Imaging Spectrometer Data Analysis Workshop, April 8-10, 1985.  Gregg Vane and Alexander F. H. Goetz, eds.  JPL Publ. No. 85-41, p. 41-45.

1.  Ustin, S. L., B. N. Rock, and R. A. Woodward.  1985. Analysis of substrate and plant spectral features of semi-arid shrub communities in the Owens Valley, California.  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment.  Fourth Thematic Conference:  Remote Sensing for Exploration Geology.  San Francisco, California.  April 1-4, 1985.  p. 347-360.