Web of Science and Google Scholar Citation Reports
Lefsky , M.A., D. Harding, W.B. Cohen and G.G. Parker. 1999. Surface lidar remote sensing of basal area and biomass in deciduous forests of eastern Maryland, USA. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 67:83-98 | |
Means, J. E., S. A. Acker, D. A. Harding, B. J. Blair, M. A. Lefsky, W. B. Cohen, M. Harmon, and W. A. McKee. 1999. Use of large-footprint scanning airborne lidar to estimate forest stand characteristics in the western Cascades of Oregon. Remote Sensing of the Environment 67: 298-308. | |
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, S.A. Acker, T.A. Spies, G.G. Parker, D. Harding. 1999. Lidar remote sensing of biophysical properties and canopy structure of forest of Douglas-fir and western hemlock. Remote Sensing of Environment 70:339-361 | |
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, T.A. Spies. 2001. An evaluation of alternate remote sensing products for forest inventory, monitoring, and mapping in Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31:78-87 | |
Harding, D. J., M. A. Lefsky, and G. G. Parker. 2001 Lidar altimeter measurements of canopy structure: methods and validation for closed-canopy broadleaf forest. Remote Sensing of the Environment 76:283-297 | |
Parker, G.G., M.A. Lefsky, and D.J. Harding. 2001. PAR transmittance in forest canopies determined from airborne lidar altimetry and from in-canopy quantum measurements. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 76:298-309 | |
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, G.G. Parker and D.J. Harding. 2002. Lidar remote sensing for ecosystem studies. Bioscience 52(1) 19-30 | |
Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, D.J. Harding, G.G. Parker, S.A. Acker, S.T. Gower. 2002. Lidar remote sensing of aboveground biomass in three biomes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 11(5) pp 393-400 | |
Hudak, A.T., M.A. Lefsky, W.B. Cohen and M. Berterretche. 2002 Integration of lidar and Landsat ETM+ data for estimating and mapping forest canopy height. Remote Sensing of Environment 82(2-3) pp 397-416 | |
Turner, D.P., M. Guzy, M.A. Lefsky, S. VanTuyl, O. Sun, C. Daly, and B.E. Law. 2003. Effects of Land Use and Fine Scale Environmental Heterogeneity on Net Ecosystem Production over a Temperate Coniferous Forest Landscape. Tellus 55B:657-668 | |
Lefsky, M.A. and W.B. Cohen. 2003. Selection of Remotely Sensed Data. Pages 13-47 n Remote Sensing of Forest Environments: Concepts and Case Studies, M.A. Wulder and S.E. Franklin, Eds. Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell Massachusetts, USA | |
Turner, D.P., M. Guzy, M. Lefsky, W.D. Ritts, S. VanTuyl, and B.E. Law. 2004. Monitoring Forest Carbon Sequestration with Remote Sensing and Carbon Cycle Modeling. Environmental Management 33(4): 457-466 | |
Parker, G.G, Harmon, M., Lefsky, M., Chen, J., Van Pelt, R., Weiss, S., Thomas, S., Winner, W.E., Shaw, D., Franklin, J. 2004. Three-dimensional structure of an old-growth Pseudotsuga-Tsuga canopy and its implications for radiation balance, microclimate, and gas exchange. Ecosystems 7(5):440-453 | |
Lefsky, M.A., D.P. Turner, M. Guzy and W.B. Cohen. (2005) Combining lidar estimates of biomass and Landsat estimates of stand age for spatially extensive validation of modeled forest productivity. Remote Sensing of Environment 95(4) 549-558 | |
Lefsky, M.A, A.T. Hudak, W.B. Cohen and S.A. Acker. (2005) Patterns of covariance between forest stand and canopy structure in the Pacific Northwest. Remote Sensing of Environment 95(4):517-531 | |
Lefsky, M.A, A.T. Hudak, W.B. Cohen and S.A. Acker (2005) Geographic variability in lidar predictions of forest stand structure in the Pacific Northwest. Remote Sensing of Environment 95(4): 532-548 | |
Lefsky, M. A., D. J. Harding, M. Keller, W. B. Cohen, C. C. Carabajal, F. Del Bom Espirito-Santo, M. O. Hunter, and R. de Oliveira Jr. (2005), Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L22S02, doi:10.1029/2005GL023971 | |
Law, B., Turner, D., Campbell, J., Lefsky, M., Guzy, M., Sun, O., Van Tuyl, S., Cohen, W., Wu, J., Jones, K., Li, H., & Loucks, O. (2006). Carbon fluxes across regions – Observational constraints at multiple scales. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications, 167-190 | |
Inman, D., Khosla, R., Lefsky, M., & Westfall, D. (2005). Early season grain yield prediction using remote sensing and site-specific management zones | |
Healey, S., W.B Cohen, T. Spies, M. Mouer, D. Pflugmacher, M. Whitley, M. Lefsky (2008). The Relative Impact of Harvest and Fire upon Landscape-Level Dynamics of Older Forests: Lessons from the Northwest Forest Plan. Ecosystems 11:1106-1119 | |
Kennaway, T., Helmer, E., Lefsky, M., Brandeis, T., & Sherrill, K. (2008). Mapping land cover and estimating forest structure using satellite imagery and coarse resolution lidar in the Virgin Islands. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2 | |
Lefsky, M.A. and M.R. McHale. (2008) Volume estimates of trees with complex architecture from terrestrial laser scanning. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 2, 023521 | |
*Lokupitiya, E., M. Lefsky and K. Paustian. (2010). Use of AVHRR NDVI time series and ground-based surveys for estimating county-level crop biomass. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Volume 31, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 141 – 158 | *Pang, Y., M. Lefsky, H.E. Andersen, M.E. Miller and K. Sherrill. (2008) Validation of the ICEsat vegetation product using crown-area-weighted mean height derived using crown delineation with discrete return lidar data Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 34(Special Issue 2) 471-484 |
*Pflugmacher, D., W.B. Cohen, R.E. Kennedy, M.A. Lefsky. 2008. Regional applicability of forest height and aboveground biomass models for the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Forest Science, 54(6): 647-657 | |
*Sherrill, K.R., M. Lefsky, J.B. Bradford, and M.G. Ryan. (2008) Forest structure estimation and pattern exploration from discrete return lidar in subalpine forests of the central Rockies. Canadian Journal of Forest Resources. 38:2081-2096 | |
*McHale, M.R., I. Burke, Lefsky, M.A, Peper, P.J., and E.G. McPherson. (2009). Urban forest biomass estimates: is it important to use allometric relationships developed specifically for urban trees? Urban Ecosystems Volume 12(1) 95-113 | |
Helmer, E.H., Lefsky, M.A. and Roberts, D.A. (2009) Biomass accumulation rates of Amazonian secondary forest and biomass of old-growth forests from Landsat time series and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 3 | |
Gonzalez, P. Asner, G.P, Battles, J.J, Lefsky, M, Waring, K.M., Palace, M (2010) Forest carbon densities and uncertainties from Lidar, QuickBird, and field measurements in California, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 114, Issue 7, 15 July 2010, Pages 1561-1575, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.011 | |
Abdalati, W., Zwally, H.J., Bindschadler, R., Csatho, B, Farrell, S.F., Fricker ,H.A., Harding, D., Kwok, R., Lefsky, M., Markus, T., Marshak, A., Neumann, A., Palm, S., Schutz, B., Smith, B., Spinhirne, J. and Charles Webb (2010) The ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry Mission Vol. 98, No. 5, May 2010 pp 735-751 | |
Lefsky, M. A. (2010), A global forest canopy height map from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L15401, doi:10.1029/2010GL043622 | |
*Miller, M. E., Lefsky, M. A., Pang, Y. (2010), Optimization of Geoscience Laser Altimeter System waveform metrics to support vegetation measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.002 | |
Hall, F., Bergen, K., Blair, J., Dubayah, R., Houghton, R., Hurtt, G., Kellndorfer, J., Lefsky, M., Ranson, J., Saatchi, S., Shugart, H., & Wickland, D. (2011). Characterizing 3D vegetation structure from space: Mission requirements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2753-2775 | |
Lefsky, M., Ramond, T., & Weimer, C. (2011). Alternate spatial sampling approaches for ecosystem structure inventory using spaceborne lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 1361-1368 | |
*Pang, Y., Lefsky, M., Sun, G., & Ranson, J. (2011). Impact of footprint diameter and off-nadir pointing on the precision of canopy height estimates from spaceborne lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2798-2809 | |
Saatchi, S., Harris, N., Brown, S., Lefsky, M., Mitchard, E., Salas, W., Zutta, B., Buermann, W., Lewis, S., Hagen, S., Petrova, S., White, L., Silman, M., & Morel, A. (2011). Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 9899-9904 | |
Stark, S.C., Leitold, V., Wu, J.L., Hunter, M.O., de Castilho, C.V., Costa, F.R.C., McMahon,S.M., Parker, G.G., Shimabukuro, M.T., Lefsky, M.A., Keller, M., Alves, L.F, Schietti, J.,Shimabukuro, Y.E., Brandão, D.O., Woodcock, T.K., Higuch, N.,de Camargo, P.B., de Oliveira,R.C, Saleska, S.R.(2012) Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01864.x Volume 15, Issue 12, pages 1406–1414 | |
Mitchard, E.T.A., Saatchi, S.S., White, L.J.T., Abernethy, K.A.Jeffery, K.J., Lewis, S.L., Collins,M., Lefsky, M.A., Leal, M.E., Woodhouse, I.H., Meir, P.(2012) Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lope National Park, Gabon: overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud BIOGEOSCIENCES Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 179-191 DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-179-2012 | |
*Duong, H.V., Lefsky, M.A., Ramond, T., Weimer, C (2012) The Electronically Steerable Flash Lidar: A Full Waveform Scanning System for Topographic and Ecosystem Structure Applications IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING Volume: 50 Issue: 11 Pages: 4809-4820 DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2193588 | |
Healey, S.P., Patterson, P.L., Saatchi, S.S., Lefsky, M.A., Lister, J., Freeman, E.A. (2012) A sample design for globally consistent biomass estimation using lidar data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) Carbon Balance and Management 2012, 7:10 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-7-10 |
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Stark, S.C., Leitold, V., Wu, J.L., Hunter, M.O., de Castilho, C.V., Costa, F.R.C., McMahon, S.M., Parker, G.G., Shimabukuro, M.T., Lefsky, M.A., Keller, M., Alves, L.F, Schietti, J., Shimabukuro, Y.E., Brandão, D.O., Woodcock, T.K., Higuch, N.,de Camargo, P.B., de Oliveira,R.C, Saleska, S.R.(2012) Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01864.x Volume 15, Issue 12, pages 1406–1414 | |
Shi, Y., Choi, S., Ni, X., Ganguly, S., Zhang, G., Duong, H.V., Lefsky, M.A., Simard, M., Saatchi, S.S., Lee, S., Ni-Meister, W., Piao, S., Cao, C., Nemani, R.R., Myneni, R.B. (2013) Allometric Scaling and Resource Limitations Model of Tree Heights: Part 1. Model Optimization and Testing over Continental USA. Remote Sensing 5:1 284-306 | |
Choi, S., Ni, X., Shi, Y., Ganguly, S., Zhang, G., Duong, H.V., Lefsky, M.A., Simard, M., Saatchi, S.S., Lee, S., Ni-Meister, W., Piao, S., Cao, C., Nemani, R.R., Myneni, R.B. (2012) Allometric Scaling and Resource Limitations Model of Tree Heights: Part 2. Site Based Testing of the Model. Remote Sensing 5:1 202-223 | |
Ni, Xiliang, Taejin Park, Sungho Choi, Yuli Shi, Chunxiang Cao, Xuejun Wang, Michael A. Lefsky, Marc Simard, and Ranga B. Myneni. “Allometric scaling and resource limitations model of tree heights: Part 3. Model optimization and testing over continental China.” Remote Sensing 6, no. 5 (2014): 3533-3553. | |
*Gwenzi, D., & Lefsky, M. A. (2014). Modeling canopy height in a savanna ecosystem using spaceborne lidar waveforms. Remote sensing of environment, 154, 338-344. Chicago |
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Park, T., Kennedy, R. E., Choi, S., Wu, J., Lefsky, M. A., Bi, J., … & Knyazikhin, Y. (2014). Application of Physically-Based Slope Correction for Maximum Forest Canopy Height Estimation Using Waveform Lidar across Different Footprint Sizes and Locations: Tests on LVIS and GLAS. Remote Sensing, 6(7), 6566-6586. | |
*Gwenzi, D., & Lefsky, M. A. (2016). Plot-level aboveground woody biomass modeling using canopy height and auxiliary remote sensing data in a heterogeneous savanna. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 10(1), 016001-016001 | |
Hunter, M. O., Keller, M., Morton, D., Cook, B., Lefsky, M., Ducey, M., … & Schietti, J. (2015). Structural Dynamics of Tropical Moist Forest Gaps. PloS one, 10(7), e0132144 | |
Kampf, S. K., & Lefsky, M. A. (2015). Peak flow transition from snowmelt to rainfall dominance along the Colorado Front Range: Historical patterns, trends, and lessons from the 2013 Colorado Front Range floods. Water Resources Research. | |
*Zhu, X., Helmer, E. H., Gao, F., Liu, D., Chen, J., & Lefsky, M. A. (2016). A flexible spatiotemporal method for fusing satellite images with different resolutions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 172, 165-177 | |
*Gwenzi, D., Lefsky, M. A., Suchdeo, V. P., & Harding, D. J. (2016). Prospects of the ICESat-2 laser altimetry mission for savanna ecosystem structural studies based on airborne simulation data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 118, 68-82. | |
Fassnacht, F. E., Latifi, H., Stereńczak, K., Modzelewska, A., Lefsky, M., Waser, L. T., … & Ghosh, A. (2016). Review of studies on tree species classification from remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 186, 64-87. | |
Yang, Y., Saatchi, S. S., Xu, L., Yu, Y., Lefsky, M. A., White, L., … & Myneni, R. B. (2016). Abiotic Controls on Macroscale Variations of Humid Tropical Forest Height. Remote Sensing, 8(6), 494. |
* My student or post-doctoral associate