|
| Research Interests: |
|
Integrated Remote Sensing Studio (IRSS) WWW Site
Key research focus areas include:
- Advanced forest inventory techniques using high spatial resolution optical remote sensing imagery and LIDAR,
- application of remote sensing imagery to computer visualization,
- ecosystem and carbon accumulation modeling for biodiversity, production and greenhouse calculations,
- wildfire, post fire severity and fuel hazard load mapping from real-time remote sensing
- detection of damaging agents in forests using spectral forest condition mapping
|
| Current Research: |
|
|
|
 Graduate students
Thoreau Rory Tooke, PhD - Spatial Decision Support Systems for Domestic and District Solar Energy Generation in British Columbia
Colin Ferster, PhD - Public Participation Remote Sensing
Andres Varhola, PhD - The use of remote sensing to characterize forest structure and improve the modeling of snow processes in extensively disturbed watersheds
Martin Van Leeuwen, PhD - Modelling vertical variations in Light Use Efficiency
Ryan Powers, PhD - Environmental Regionalisation of the Boreal using Remote Sensing Indicators
Paul Pickell, PhD - Estimating Range of Natural Variation Following Disturbances
Doug Boulton, PhD - LiDAR and Forest Succession
Lin (Tony) Cao, PhD - Biomass Prediction in China
Adam Erikson, PhD - Landscape Simulation for Biodiversity and Carbon
Greg Rickbeil, MSc - Remote Sensing of Bird Habitat
Amanda Mathys, PhD - Species Distribution Modelling and Climate Change
Vanessa Mascorro, MSc - Carbon Balance Estimation following Disturbance
Ryan Frazier, PhD - Landsat Time Series
John Arnett, MSc - RapidEye Disturbance Detection
Completed IRSS Graduates
Thomas Hilker, PhD -Estimation of Photosynthetic Light-Use Efficiency from Automated Multi-Angluar Spectroradiometer Measurements of Coastal Douglas-Fir
Chris Bater, MSc - Estimating indicators of forest sustainability using lidar remote sensing
Steve Gillanders, MSc - Multitemporal Remote Sensing Of Landscape Pattern Dynamics Resulting From Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation And Timber Harvest
Nicholas Soverel, MSc Validating Burn Severity Classifications using Landsat
imagery across Western Canadian National Parks
Colin Ferster, MSc - Using inventory based field attributes to characterize carbon stocks and carbon stock changes within eddy-flux covariance tower footprints
Rory Tooke, MSc - Remote Sensing Applications For Vegetation Management In Urban Environments
Sam Coggins, PhD - Monitoring to detect mountain pine beetle infestation in western Canada using high-spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery
Trevor Jones, PhD - Mapping species level vegetative composition and structure in the southern Gulf Islands employing LiDAR, hyperspectral and multispectral remotely sensed data in conjunction with field measurements and ground-based spectroscopy.
Baozhang Chen, PhD - Towards predictive understanding of coupled terrestrial carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics at ecosystem and regional scales: Integrating of models and remote sensing and field measurements
Jean-Simon Michaud , MSc - Characterizing moose habitat, abundance and ecosystem variability using satellite-derived productivity, land cover, disturbance and terrain based indicators
Robbie Hember, PhD - Predicting Forest Growth Responses to Climate Variability in Coastal Forest Ecosystems of British Columbia, Canada
Olivier Tsui, MSc - Integrating SAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technology To Estimate Aboveground Biomass
|
| Awards: |
|
Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing (Tier 1)
Canadian Foundation of Innovation
Affiliate Faculty Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon, USA.
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Senior Scholar 2005 |
| Courses Taught: |
|
|
| Links: |
|
The Integrated Remote Sensing Studio at UBC
http://www.forestry.ubc.ca/irss/ |
| Additional
Info: |
|
|
 Current publications
| Jones, T.G., Arcese, P., Sharma, T., Coops, N.C. (2013) Describing avifaunal richness with functional and structural bio-indicators derived from advanced airborne remotely sensed data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 34(8): 2689-2713. |
| van Leeuwen, M., Coops, N.C., Newnham, G., Hilker, T., Culvenor, D.S., Wulder, MA (2013) Stem mapping and reconstruction using terrestrial laser scanning Remote Sensing of Environment (in press) |
| Kellett, R., Christen, A., Coops, N., Vander Laan, M., Crawford, B., Tooke, R., Olchovski, I. (2013) A systems approach to carbon cycling and emissions modeling at an urban neighborhood scale Landscape and Urban Planning 110: 48-58 |
| Andrew, M.E., Wulder, M.A., Hobart, G.W., Coops, N.C., Nelson, T.A., Farmer, C.J.Q. (2013) Ecosystem classifications based on summer and winter conditions Environ Monit Assess. 185(4): 3057-79 doi: 10.1007/s10661-012-2773-z |
| Michaud, J.S., Coops, N.C., Andrew, M., Wulder, M.A., Brown, G.S., Rickbeil, G.J.M. (2013) Estimating moose (Alces alces) occurrence and abundance from satellite-derived environmental indicators Journal of Nature Conservation (in review) |
| Perez, L., Nelson, T., Coops, N.C., Fontana F. (2013) Spatial relationships between indirect biodiversity indicators and 21 years of climate across the Canadian Boreal Forest Climatic Change (in review) |
| Hilker, T., Hall, F.G., Coops, N.C., Collatz, J.G., Black, T.A., Tucker, C.J, Sellers, P.J., Grant, N. (2013) On the Remote Sensing of Heat Fluxes and Surface Energy Balance Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (in review) |
| Bolton, D.K., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A. (2013) Measuring forest structure along productivity gradients in the Canadian boreal with small-footprint Lidar Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (in press) |
| Coggins, S.B., Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A. (2013) Augmenting forest inventory attributes with geometric optical modelling in support of regional susceptibility assessments to bark beetle infestations International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 21: 444-452 |
| Coops, N.C., Fontana, F., Wulder, M.A (2013) Monitoring National-Scale Indirect Indicators of Biodiversity Using a Long Time-Series of Remotely Sensed Imagery Ecological Indicators (in review) |
| Holmes, K.R., Nelson, T. A., Coops, N.C., Fontana, F.M., Wulder, M.A. (2013) Forecasting Shifts in Biodiversity across British Columbia due to Climate Change: An Indirect Indicator Approach. Ecological Indicators (in review) |
| Nijland, W., Coops, N.C., Coogan, S., Bater, C., Wulder, M.A., Nielsen, S.E., McDermid, G., Stenhouse, G. (2013) Vegetation phenology can be captured with digital repeat photography and linked to variability of root nutrition in Hedysarum alpinum Applied Vegetation Science. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12000 |
| Mora, B., Wulder, MA., White, J., Hobart, G., Gougeon, F., Varhola, A., Coops, N.C. (2013) Forest inventory stand height estimates from very high spatial resolution satellite imagery calibrated with LIDAR-plots Int. J. Remote Sens. 34(12). doi: 10.1080/01431161.2013.779041 |
| Bater, C.W., J.C. White, M.A. Wulder, S. Magnussen, G.W. Frazer, N.C. Coops, and K.O. Niemann (2013) Estimation of total above ground biomass with LiDAR: a comparison of sample designs Remote Sensing of Environment (in review) |
| Hilker, T., Hall, F.G., Black, T.A., Coops, N.C., Sellers, P.J., Tucker, C.J., Jassal R.S., and Grant, N.F. (2013) Inferring daytime ecosystem respiration in temperate forests Global Biogeochemical Cycles (in review) |
| Sims, N., Culvenor, D.S., Newnham, G., Coops, N.C., Hopmans, P. (2013) Towards the operational use of satellite hyperspectral image data for mapping the nutrient status and fertilizer requirements in Australian plantation forests IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 6: 2. pp 320 - 328 |
| Thompson, S.D., Nelson, T.A., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C. (2013) Global biodiversity mapping and monitoring with remote sensing: Review, synthesis and recommendations Progress in Physical Geography (in review) |
| Fitterer, J.L., Nelson, T.A., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., and Mahony, N.A. (2013) Exploring the ecological processes driving geographical patterns of breeding bird richness in British Columbia Canada Ecological Applications (in press) |
| Tsui, O.W., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., and Marshall, P.L. (2013) Integrating airborne LiDAR and space-borne radar via multivariate kriging to estimate above-ground biomass Remote Sensing of Environment (in review) |
| Holmes, K.R., Nelson, T.A., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A. (2013) Biodiversity indicators show climate change will alter vegetation in parks and protected areas Diversity 5(2): 352-353. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d5020352 |
| Brown, N.D.A., Nelson, T.A., Bater, C.W., Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A., Gaulton, R., and Stenhouse, G.B. (2013) Integrating high temporal resolution disturbance and wildlife movement data Applied Geography (in review) |
| Coops, N.C., Schaepman, M.E., Mücher, C.A. (2013) What Multi-Scale Environmental Drivers Can Best be
Discriminated from a Remotely-Sensed Vegetation Time Series? Landscape Ecology (in press) |
| Pereira, H.M., Ferrier, S., Walters, M., Geller, G.N., Jongman, R.H.G., Scholes, R.J., Bruford, M.W., Brummit, N., Butchart, S.H.M., Cardoso, A.C., Coops, N.C., Dulloo, E., Faith, D.P., Freyhof, J., Gregory, R.D., Heip, C., Höft, R., Hurtt, G., Jetz, W., Karp, D.S., McGeoch, M.A., Obura, D., Onoda, Y., Pettorelli, N., Reyers, B., Sayre, R., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Stuart, S.N., Turak, E., Walpole, M., Wegmann, M. (2013) Essential Biodiversity Variables Science 339: 277-278 |
| Rickbeil, G.J.M., Coops, N.C., Andrew, M.E., Bolton, D.K., Mahony, N., Nelson, T.A. (2013) Assessing conservation regionalization schemes: employing species data to test and augment the environmental surrogacy approach Diversity and Distributions (in review) |
| Pickell, P.D., Andison, D.W., Coops, N.C. (2013) Characterizations of anthropogenic disturbance patterns in the mixedwood boreal forest of Alberta, Canada Forest Ecology and Management, 304: 243–253. |
| Bolton, D.K., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A. (2013) Investigating the agreement between global canopy height maps and airborne Lidar derived height estimates over Canada Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (in review) |
| Tooke, R.T., Coops, N.C., Christen, A. (2013) A point obstruction stacking (POSt) approach to wall irradiance modeling across urban environments Building and Environment 60:234-242 |
| Vaccari, S., van Leeuwen, M., Calders, K., Coops, N.C., Herold, M. (2013) Bias in lidar-based canopy gap fraction estimates Remote Sensing Letters 4(4):391-399 |
| Coops, N.C., Morsdorf, F., Schaepman, M.E., Zimmermann, N.E (2013) Characterization of an Alpine Treeline using Airborne LiDAR Data and Physiological Modeling Global Change Biology (in review) |
| Paul-Limoges, E., Christen, A., Coops, N.C., Black, T.A., Trofymow, J.A. (2013) Estimation of effective aerodynamic roughness of a harvested Douglas-fir forest using airborne LiDAR Remote Sensing of Environment. 136 (2013) 225–233 |
| Powers, R.P., Coops, N.C., Nelson, T.A., Wulder, M.A., Drever, C.R. (2013) Integrating accessibility and intactness into large-area conservation planning in the Canadian boreal Biological Conservation (in review) |
| Varhola, A., Coops, N.C. (2013) Estimation of watershed-level distributed forest structure metrics relevant to hydrologic modeling using LiDAR and Landsat Journal of Hydrology 487: 70-86 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.032 |
| Ferster, C.J., N.C. Coops, H.W. Harshaw, R.A. Kozak and M.J. Meitner (2013) Public Participation in Forest Fuels Measurement in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Society and Natural Resources, (in review) |
| Rickbeil, G.J.M., Coops, N.C., Drever, M.C., Nelson, T.A. (2013) Modeling coastal birds in a challenging environment: using ensemble models to predict species distributions in British Columbia Journal of Biogeography (in review) |
| Racine, E.B., Coops, N.C., St-Onge, B., Begin, J (2013) (2013) Estimating Forest Stand Age from LIDAR-Derived Predictors and Nearest Neighbor Imputation Forest Science (in press) |
| Hilker, T., Frazer, G.W., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., van Leeuwen, M. Newnham, G.J., Culvenor, D.S., Stewart, J.D. (2013) Prediction of Wood Fiber Attributes from LiDAR-derived Forest Canopy Indicators Forest Science 59(2): 231-242 http://dx.doi.org\10.5849/forsci.11-074 |
| White, J.C., Wulder, M.A., Vastaranta, M., Coops, N.C., Pitt, D., Woods, M. (2013) The utility of image-based point clouds for forest inventory: a comparison with airborne laser scanning Forests (in review). |
| Perez, L., Nelson, T. A., Coops, N.C., Fitterer, J., Wulder, M.A., Powers, R., and Fontana, F. (2013) Predicting climate change impacts to the Canadian Boreal Forest Ecological Applications (in review) |
| Hermosilla T, Coops NC, Ruiz LA, Moskal LM, (2013) Deriving pseudo-vertical waveforms from small-footprint full-waveform LiDAR data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (in review) |
| Hermosilla T, Ruiz LA, Kazakova AN, Coops NC, Moskal LM (2013) Estimation of forest structure and canopy fuel parameters from small-footprint full-waveform LiDAR data International Journal of Wildland Fire (in review) |
| Nijland, W., de Jong R., de Jong S., Wulder, M.A., Bater, C., Coops, N.C. (2013) (2013) Monitoring Plant Condition and Phenology using Infrared Sensitive Consumer Grade Digital Cameras Agriculture and Forest Meteorology (in review) |
| Ferster, C.J., Coops, N.C. (2013) Acquiring forest fuels loading data using public participation methods and smartphones: assessing data quality for forest management International Journal of Wildland Fire. Manuscript ID: WF13094. (Submitted June 6, 2013). |
| Tooke, T.R., Coops, N.C., Christen, A (2012) Integrated irradiance modelling in the urban environment based on remotely sensed data Solar Energy 86(10):2923-2934 |
| Powers, R.P., N.C. Coops, J.L. Morgan, M.A. Wulder, T.A. Nelson, C.R. Drever and S.G. Cumming (2012) A remote sensing approach to biodiversity assessment and regionalization of the Canadian Boreal Forest Progress in Physical Geography DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133312457405 |
| Coops, NC., Wulder, MA., Waring, R.H. (2012) Modelling lodgepole and jack pine vulnerability to mountain pine beetle expansion into the western Canadian boreal forest Forest Ecology and Management 274:161-171 |
| Tsui, O., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Marshall, P.L., McCardle, A (2012) Using multi-frequency radar and discrete-return LiDAR measurements to estimate above-ground biomass and biomass components in a coastal temperate forest ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 69:121–133 |
| Chen, G., M. A. Wulder, J. C. White, T. Hilker, and N. C. Coops (2012) Lidar calibration and validation for geometric-optical modeling with Landsat imagery Remote Sensing of Environment 124:384-393 |
| Chen, B., Coops, N.C., Fu, D., Margolis, H.A., Amiro, B.D., Black, T.A., Arain, M.A., Barr, A.G., Bourque, C.P.A., Flanagan, L.B., Lafleur, P.M., McCaughey, J.H., Wofsy, S.C. (2012) Characterizing spatial representativeness of flux tower eddy-covariance measurements across the Canadian Carbon Program Network using remote sensing and footprint analysis Remote Sensing of Environment 124:742–755 |
| Fitterer, J.L., Nelson, T.A., Coops, NC, Wulder, M.A. (2012) Modelling the ecosystem indicators of British Columbia using Earth observation data and terrain indicies Ecological Indicators. 20:151-162 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.02.024 |
| Michaud, JS, Coops, NC, Andrew, M., Wulder, M.A. (2012) Characterising spatiotemporal environmental and natural variation using a dynamic habitat index throughout the province of Ontario Ecological Indicators 18:301 -311 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, C.W. Bater, N.C. Coops, C. Hopkinson, and G. Chen. (2012) Lidar plots—a new large-area data collection option: context, concepts, and case study. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 38(5):600-618 |
| Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Coggins, S., Ortlepp, S., N.C. Coops, Heath, J., Mora, B. (2012) Digital high spatial resolution aerial imagery to support forest health monitoring: the mountain pine beetle context Journal of Applied Remote Sensing DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.6.062527 |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Hilker, T. (2012) Prediction of Soil Properties using a Process-based Forest Growth Model to Match Satellite-Derived Estimates of Leaf Area Index Remote Sensing of Environment 126:160-173 |
| Hall, F.G., Hilker, T., Coops, N.C. (2012) Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: I. Model formulation Remote Sensing of Environment 121:301-308 |
| Hilker, T., Hall, F.G., Tucker, C.J., Coops, N.C., Black, T.A., Nichol, C., Sellers, P.J., Barr, A., Hollinger, D.Y., Munger, J.W. (2012) Data assimilation of photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular satellite data: II. Model implementation and validation Remote Sensing of Environment 121: 287-300 |
| Hember, R.A., Kurz, W.A., Metsaranta, J.M., Black, T.A., Guy, R.D., Coops, N.C. (2012) Accelerating regrowth of temperate-maritime forests due to enivronmental change Global Change Biology 18(6):2026-2040 |
| Andrew, M.E., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops (2012) Identification of de facto protected areas in boreal Canada Biological Conservation. 146:97-107.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.029 |
| Hilker, T, Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D.S, Newnham G., Wulder, M.A., Bater, C.W, Siggins, A. (2012) A simple technique for co-registration of terrestrial LiDAR observations for forestry applications Remote Sensing Letters 3(3):239-247. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2011.565815 |
| Varhola; A, Frazer; G.W. Teti; P., Coops, NC (2012) Estimation of forest structure metrics relevant to hydrologic modelling using coordinate transformation of airborne scanning laser data Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16(10):3749-3766 |
| Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Nelson, R.F., Næsset, E., Ørka, H.O., Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Bater, C.W., Gobakken, T. (2012) Lidar sampling for large-area forest characterization: A review Remote Sensing of Environment 121:196-209 |
| Fontana, F.M., Coops, N.C., Khlopenkov, K.V., Trishchenko, A.P., Riffler, M., Wulder, M.A. (2012) Generation of a novel 1 km NDVI data set over Canada, the northern United States, and Greenland based on historical AVHRR data Remote Sensing of Environment 121:171–185 |
| Hilker, T., Lepine, L., Coops, N.C. Jassal, R., Black, T.A. Wulder, M.A., Ollinger, S.V., Tsui, O., Day, M. (2012) Assessing the impact of N-fertilization on biochemical composition and biomass of a Douglas-fir canopy - a remote sensing approach Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 153:124– 133 DOI:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.03.014 |
| Ferster, C, Coops, N.C (2012) A Review of Earth Observation Using Mobile Personal Communication Devices Computers and Geoscience 51:339-349 doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.09.009 |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Newnham, G., v.Leeuwen, M., Wulder, M.A., Stewart, J., Culvenor, D.S. (2012) Comparison of Terrestrial and Airborne LiDAR in Describing Stand Structure of a Thinned lodgepole Pine Forest Journal of Forestry 110(2):97-104 |
| Martin van Leeuwen, Thomas Hilker, Nicholas C. Coops, Gordon Frazer, Michael A. Wulder, Glenn J. Newnham, Darius S. Culvenor (2011) Assessment of standing wood and fiber quality using ground and airborne laser scanning: A review Forest Ecology and Management. 261 (2011) 1467–1478 |
| Andrew, M.E., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops (2011) How do butterflies define ecosystems? A comparison of ecological regionalization schemes. Biological Conservation. 144: 5 Pages: 1409-1418 |
| Coops NC, Nilker T, Hall FG, Nichol CJ, Drolet GG (2011) Estimation of Light-use Efficiency of Terrestrial Ecosystem from Space: A Status Report Bioscience 60(10):788-797 |
| Coggins SB, Coops NC, Wulder MA (2011) Estimates of bark beetle infestation expansion factors with adaptive cluster sampling International Journal of Pest Management 57(1):11-21 |
| Coggins SB, Coops NC, Wulder MA, Bater CW, Ortlepp SM (2011) Comparing the impacts of mitigation and non-mitigation on mountain pine beetle populations Journal of Environmental Management. 92 (1): 1 112-120 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.08.016 |
| Hall, F.G, Hilker, T., Coops, N.C (2011) PHOTOSYNSAT, Photosynthesis from space: Theoretical foundations of a satellite concept and validation from tower and spaceborne data Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(8), 1918-1925. |
| Hilker T., Gitelson, A., Coops, N.C., Hall, F.G., Black, T.A (2011) Tracking plant physiological properties from multi-angular tower-based remote sensing Oecologia. 165, Number 4, 865-876, DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1901-0 |
| Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Bater, C.W., Wulder, M.A., Nielsen, S.E., McDermid, D., Stenhouse, G. (2011) Linking ground-based to satellite-derived phenological metrics in support of habitat assessment Remote Sensing Letters 3(3):191-200 |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C.,, Gaulton, R., Wulder, M.A., Cranson, J., Stenhouse, G (2011) Automated bi-weekly disturbance capture and attribution: A case study in western Alberta grizzly bear habitat J. Appl. Remote Sens. 5, 053568, DOI:10.1117/1.3664342 |
| Jones, T.G., Coops, N.C., Sharma, T (2011) Assessing the utility of LiDAR to differentiate among vegetation structural classes Remote Sensing Letters 3:3 231-238 |
| Wang, Z., Grant, R.F., Arain, M.A., Chen, B.N., Coops, N., Hember, R., Kurz, W.A., Price, D.T., Stinson, G., Trofymow, J.A., Yeluripati, J., Chen, Z. (2011) Evaluating weather effects on interannual variation in net ecosystem productivity of a coastal temperate forest landscape: a model intercomparison Ecological Modelling 222, Issue 17, Pages 3236-3249 |
| Christen, A., Coops, N.C., Crawford, B., Kellett, R., Liss, K., Oke, T.R., Olchovski, I.,
Tooke, T.R., vanderLaan, M., Voogt, J.A (2011) Validation of modeled carbon-dioxide emissions from and urban neighbourhood with direct eddy-covariance measurements Atmospheric Environment. 45, 6057-6069. |
| Andrew, M.E., M.A. Wulder, and N.C. Coops (2011) Patterns of protection and threats along productivity gradients in Canada. Biological Conservation . 144: 2891-2901 doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.006 |
| Hilker ,T., Coops, N.C.,, Hall, F.G., Nichol, C.J. et al (2011) Global Terrestrial Photosynthetic Light-Use Efficiency Can Be Measured from Space Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 116 . G03014 |
| Jones, T.G., Coops, N.C., Gergel, S. and Sharma, T. (2011) Extending tree species heterogeneity using object-based classification Landscape Ecology |
| Jenkins, R.B., Coops, N.C (2011) Landscape Controls on Structural Variation in Eucalypt Vegetation Communities: Woronora Plateau, Australia Australian Geographer. 42(1) 1 - 16 |
| Bater, C.W., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., Nelson, R., Hilker, T. (2011) Stability of sample-based scanning LiDAR-derived vegetation metrics for forest monitoring. IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing 49(6), 2385-2392. |
| Andrew, M.E., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops, and G. Baillargeon (2011) Beta-diversity gradients of butterflies along productivity axes Global Ecology and Biogeography. 21(3):352-364. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00676.x |
| Coops, N.C., Gaulton, R., Waring, R.H (2011) Mapping site indices for five Pacific Northwest conifers using a physiologically based model Journal of Applied Vegetation Science. 14 (2011) 268–276 |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D.S., Newnham, N., Siggins, A.S., Jupp, D.L.B. (2011) Generation of Digital Elevation Models using terrestrial LiDAR Remote Sensing Letters 3.3 339-347 |
| Tooke, T.R., Coops, N.C., Voogt, J.A., Meitner, M.J (2011) Tree structure influences on rooftop-received solar radiation Landscape and Urban Planning. 102(2) 73-81 |
| Jones, T. G., Coops, N. C., and T. Sharma. (2011) Exploring the Utility of Hyperspectral Imagery and LiDAR Data for Predicting Quercus garryana Ecosystem Distribution and Aiding in Habitat Restoration . Restoration Ecology. Restoration Ecology. 19 Special Issue: SI Pages: 245-256. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00684.x |
| Ferster, Colin J, Trofymow, J.A., Coops, Nicholas C., Chen, Baozhang, Black, Andy (2011) Comparing inventory-based carbon stock changes with eddy-covariance flux-tower-based cumulative NEP measurements at three sites in a coastal forest in British Columbia TREES |
| Ferster, Colin J.,
Trofymow, J.A. Coops, Nicholas C., Chen, Baozhang, Black, T. Andy,
Gougeon, François (2011) Determination of carbon stock distributions in the flux footprint of an eddy-covariance tower in a coastal forest in British Columbia Canadian Journal of Forest Research , 41:(7) 1380-1393, 10.1139/x11-055 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, N.C. Coops (2011) Fragmentation regimes of Canada's forests. Canadian Geographer. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00335.x |
| Gaulton, R., Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., Stenhouse, G. (2011) Characterising Stand Replacing Disturbance In Western Alberta Grizzly Bear Habitat, Using A Satellite-Derived High Temporal And Spatial Resolution Change Sequence. Forest Ecology and Management 261(4): 865-877 |
| Bater, C.W., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Nielsen, S., McDermid, G, Stenhouse, G. (2011) Design And Installation Of A Phenological Camera Network Across An Elevation Gradient For Habitat Assessment Instrumentation Science & Technology, 39(231-247). |
| Chen, B., Coops, N.C., Margolis, H., Amiro, B., Barr, A., Black, A., Arain, N., Bourque, C., Flannigan, L., Lefleur, P., McCaughey, H., Wofsy, S (2011) Assessing eddy-covariance flux tower location bias across the Fluxnet-Canada Research Network based on remote sensing and footprint climatology modelling Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 151: 87-100 |
| Soverel, N.O., Coops, N.C., Perrakis,
D.B., Daniels, L., & Gergel, S. (2011) The transferability of a dNBR derived model to predict burn
severity across ten wildland fires in Western Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 20: 1 - 14 |
| Coops, N.C., Michaud, J.S., Wulder, M.A., Andrew, M.E. (2011) Comparison Of A Regional-Level Habitat Index derived From Meris And Modis Estimates Of Canopy Light Absorbance Remote Sensing Letters 2(4) 327-336 |
| Bater, C.W., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Nielsen, S., Hilker, T., McDermid, Stenhouse, G. (2011) Using digital time-lapse cameras to monitor
species-specific understorey and overstorey
phenology in support of wildlife habitat
assessment Environ Monit Assess. Vol. 180, pp. 1-13. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1768-x ). |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H (2011) Estimating the vulnerability of fifteen tree species under changing climate in Northwest North America Ecological Modelling. 222(13) 2119-2129 |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Beier, C., Roy-Jauvin, R., Wang, T (2011) Modeling the occurrence of 15 coniferous tree species throughout the Pacific Northwest of North America using a hybrid approach of a generic process-based growth model and decision tree analysis Journal of Applied Vegetation Science. 14(3) 402-414 |
| Waring, R.H, Coops, N.C., Running, S.W. (2011) Predicting satellite-derived patterns of large-scale disturbances in forests of the Pacific Northwest Region in response to recent climatic variation Remote Sensing the Environment. 115 (12), 3554-3566 |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H (2011) Estimating Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.) Distribution in the Pacific Northwest under Climate Change Climatic Change 105 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 313-328.
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9861-2 |
| Bater, C.W., Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., and Coops N.C (2010) Integration of LIDAR and digital aerial imagery for detailed estimates of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) volume killed by mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Journal of Forestry. 108: 111-119. |
| Dalponte, M., Coops, N.C., Bruzzone, L., Gianelle, D. (2010) Analysis on the use of multiple returns LiDAR data for the estimation of tree stems volume. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2: 310-318 |
| Coops, N.C., Hember, R.A., Waring, R.H. (2010) Assessing the impact of current and projected climates on Douglas-Fir productivity in British Columbia, Canada Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 511-524 |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A. (2010) Estimating the reduction in gross primary production due to mountain pine beetle infestation using satellite observations International Journal of Remote Sensing. . Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 2129-2138 |
| Morgan, J.L., Gergel, S.E., and N.C. Coops (2010) Aerial photography: A rapidly evolving tool for ecological management BioScience 60(1):47-59 |
| Tooke, T.R., Klinkenberg, B., Coops, N.C. (2010) A geographic approach to identifying green-space-related environmental justice in Canadian cities. Environment and Planning B. 37 (6): 1040-1056 doi:10.1068/b36044 |
| Jones, T.G., Coops, N.C., Sharma, T. (2010) Employing ground-based spectroscopy for tree-species differentiation in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve International Journal of Remote Sensing 31: 1121 – 1127 |
| Goodwin, N.R., Magnussen, S, Coops, N.C. and Wulder, M.A. (2010) Curve fitting of time series Landsat imagery for characterizing a mountain pine beetle infestation disturbance. International Journal of Remote Sensing 31(12), 3263–3271. |
| Soverel, N., N.C. Coops, J.C. White, and M.A. Wulder. (2010) Characterizing the forest fragmentation of Canada's national parks Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 164:481–499. |
| Chen, B., Coops, N.C., Black, TA., Jassel, R., Chen, J., Johnson,M (2010) Modeling to discern nitrogen fertilization impacts on carbon sequestration in a 5 Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest in the first-post fertilization year Global Change Biology. 17(3): 1442-1460 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02298.x |
| Hilker, T., Hall, F., Coops, N.C., Lyapustin, A., Wang, Y., Nesic, Z., Grant, N., Black, T.A. Wulder, MA., Kljun, N., Hopkinson, C., Chaser, L (2010) Remote sensing of photosynthetic light-use efficiency across two forested biomes: Spatial scaling. Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 2863-2874 |
| Hilker, T., M. van Leeuwen, N.C. Coops, M.A. Wulder, G. Newnham, D.S. Culvenor, D.L.B. Jupp (2010) Comparing canopy metrics derived from terrestrial and airborne laser scanning in a Douglas-fir dominated forest stand. Trees: Structure and Function. 24:819–832. DOI 10.1007/s00468-010-0452-7 |
| Coggins, S.B., N.C. Coops, M.A. Wulder (2010) Estimates of mountain pine beetle infestation expansion factors with adaptive cluster sampling Journal of Pest Management 57: 11-21 |
| Coops, N.C., Duffe. J, Koot, C. (2010) Assessing the Utility of LiDAR Remote Sensing Technology to Identify Mule Deer Winter Habitat. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 35: 509-522 |
| Hember RA, Coops NC, Black TA, RD Guy (2010) Simulating gross primary production across a chronosequence of coastal Douglas-fir forest stands with a production efficiency model Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150: 238-253 |
| Hilker, T., Nesic, Z., Coops, N.C., Lessard, D. (2010) (2010) A new automated multi-angular radiometer instrument for tower based observations of canopy reflectance (Amspec II) Instrumentation Science and Technology. 38: 5, 319 — 340 |
| Chen, B.Z., Coops, N.C. (2010) Understanding of Coupled Terrestrial Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Dynamics-An Overview Sensors. 9: 8624-8657 |
| Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Hall, F., Nichol, C., Drolet, G. (2010) Estimation of Light-Use Efficiency from Space: A Status Report Bioscience 60: 788-797 |
| Varhola, A., Wawerla, J., Weiler, M., Coops, N.C., Bewley, D., Alila, Y. (2010) A New Low-Cost, Stand-Alone Sensor System for Snow Monitoring Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Technology. 27: 1974-1978
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1508.1 |
| Soverel, N.O., Parrakis, D.B., Coops, N.C. (2010) Estimating burn severity from Landsat dNBR and RdNBR indices across Western Canada Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 1896-1909 |
| Jones, T.G., Coops, N.C., Sharma, T. (2010) Assessing the utility of airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data for species distribution mapping in the coastal Pacific Northwest Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 2841-2852 |
| van Leeuwen, M., Coops, N.C., Wulder, MA (2010) Canopy Surface Reconstruction from a LiDAR point cloud Using Hough Transform Remote Sensing Letters, 1 :125 - 132 |
| Wulder, M.A., S.M. Ortlepp, J.C. White, T. Nelson, N.C. Coops (2010) A provincial and regional assessment of the mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia: 1999-2008 Journal of Environmental Informatics. 15(1) 1-13 |
| White, J.C., C. Gómez, M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops (2010) Characterizing temperate forest structural and spectral diversity with Hyperion EO-1 data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 1576-1589 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, G. Stinson, T. Hilker; W. Kurz, N.C. Coops, B. St-Onge, and J.A.T. Trofymow, (2010) Implications of differing input data sources and approaches upon forest carbon stock estimation, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 166: 543-561. |
| Coggins, S., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A. (2010) Cluster sampling to characterize mountain pine beetle populations Silvifenica. 44(23). 289-391. |
| Coops, N.C., Gillanders, S., Wulder, M.A., Gergel, S.E., Nelson, T., Goodwin, N.R (2010) Evaluation of forest fragmentation and loss of connectivity using multitemporal Landsat imagery: quantifying natural and anthropogenic disturbance Forest Ecology and Management. 259:2355-2365 |
| Varhola, A., Coops, N.C., Moore, D., Weiler, M (2010) Forest canopy attributes and snow accumulation and ablation: an integrative review of empirical results. Journal of Hydrology. 392: 219-233. |
| Varhola, A., Teti P, Boon, S., Coops, N.C., Weiler, M., Bater, CW (2010) The influence of ground and LiDAR-derived forest structure metrics on snow accumulation and ablation in disturbed forests Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(4) 812-821. |
| Waring, R.H., Coops, N..C., Landsberg, J.J (2010) Improving predictions of forest growth using the 3-PGS model with
observations made by remote sensing Forest Ecology and Management. 259, 1722:1729. |
| Zhang Y, Wang JF, Coops NC (2010) Recent developments in methodology and applications of urban remote sensing Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 36:III-V |
| Varhola A, Coops NC, Weiler M, Moore RD (2010) Forest canopy effects on snow accumulation and ablation: An integrative review of empirical results Journal of Hydrology 392(3-4):219-233 |
| Hilker, T., Nesic, Z., , Coops, NC and . and Lessard, D ( (2010) A new automated Multi-angular radiometer instrument for tower-based observations for canopy reflectance (AMSPEC_II). Instrumentation Science & Technology, 38: 5, 319 — 340 |
| Tsui, O.W., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Marshall, P.L., McCardle, A. (2010) Using multi-frequency radar and discrete-return LiDAR measurements to estimate above-ground biomass and biomass components in a coastal temperate forest. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 69:121-133 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, M.E. Andrew, N.E. Seitz, and N.C. Coops. (2009) Forest fragmentation, structure, and age characteristics as a legacy of forest management. Forest Ecology and Management.Vol. 258, No. 9, pp. 1938-1949 |
| Coops, N.C., Varhola, A., Bater, C.W., Teti, P., Boon, S., Goodwin, N.R., Weiler, M (2009) Assessing Differences in Tree and Stand Structure Following Beetle Infestation using LiDAR Data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 35:6 497-508. |
| Cheng, Y-B., Middleton, E.B., Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Black, T.A., Krishnan, P. (2009) Dynamics of spectral bio-indicators and
their correlations with light use efficiency
using directional observations at a
Douglas-fir forest Measurement Science and Technology. 20 95-107. |
| Wulder, M.A., B.P. Stewart, M.E. Andrew, M. Smulders, T. Nelson, N.C. Coops, and G.B. Stenhouse (2009) Remote sensing derived edge location, magnitude, and class transitions for ecological studies. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 35(6) 509-522 |
| Coops, N.C, Waring, R.H., Schroeder, T (2009) A generic process-based growth model that predicts the presence and absence of tree species on U.S. Forest Service survey plots in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. Ecological Modelling. 220: 1776-1796 |
| Chen B., Black A., Coops N.C., Hilker T., Trofymow T., Nesic Z., and Morgenstern K. (2009) Assessing tower flux footprint climatology and scaling between remotely sensed and eddy covariance measurements Boundary Layer Meteorology. 130:137–167. |
| Chen B., Black A., Coops N.C., Jassal R., Krishnan P., and Z. Nesic (2009) Seasonal controls on interannual variability in carbon dioxide exchange of a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest, 1997 - 2006. Global Change Biology. 15: 8, 1962-1981 |
| Goodwin, N.R. Coops, N.C, Tooke, R.T., Christen, A. and Voogt, J.A (2009) Characterising urban surface cover and structure with airborne LiDAR technology. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 35:3 297-309 |
| Middleton, EB, Cheng, YB, Hilker, T, Black, TA, Krishnan, P, Coops, NC, Huemmrich, F (2009) Linking Foliage Spectral Responses to Canopy Level Ecosystem Photosynthetic Light Use Efficiency at a Douglas-fir Forest in Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 35(2): 166-188. |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, Carroll, A.L., Coops, N.C. (2009) Challenges for the operational detection of mountain pine beetle green attack with remote sensing The Forestry Chronicle. 85: 32-38 |
| Tooke, R., Coops. N.C, Goodwin, N.R., Voogt, J.A (2009) The Influence of Vegetation Characteristics on Spectral Mixture Analysis in an Urban Environment. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113, 398-407 |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Coggins, S., Wulder, M.A., Brown, M., Black, T.A., Nesic, Z., & Lessard, D. (2009) On the detection of foliage conditions and disturbance from multi-angular high spectral resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113, 421-434 |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. (2009) Development of A Satellite-Based Methodology To Monitor Habitat at a Continental-Scale Ecological Indicators: 9: 948-958. |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. (2009) An Environmental Domain Classification of Canada using Earth Observation data for Biodiversity Assessment Ecological Infomatics. 4: 8-22. |
| Coops, N.C., Ferster, C.J., Waring, R.H., Nightingale, J (2009) Three Model Comparison Of Predicted Gross Primary Production Across And Within Forested Portions Of 84 Ecoregions In The Contiguous United States. Remote Sensing of Environment: 113: 680-690. |
| Wulder, M.A., S.M. Ortlepp, J.C. White, N.C. Coops, and S.B. Coggins (2009) Monitoring the impacts of mountain pine beetle mitigation Forest Ecology and Management 258, 1181–1187. |
| Hilker, T., Lyapustin, A., Hall, F.G., Wang, Y., Coops, N.C., Drolet, G., & Black, T.A. (2009) Modeling the atmospheric and directional impacts on PRI reflectance. Remote Sensing the Environment. 113: 2463-2475 |
| Bater, C.W., Coops, N.C., Gergel, S.E., LeMay, V.M. and Collins, D. (2009) Estimation of standing dead tree class distributions in northwest coastal forests using lidar remote sensing Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 6, 1080-1091., NRC Press |
| Schroeder, T.A., Hamann, A., Coops, N.C., Wang, T (2009) Occurrence and dominance of six Pacific Northwest conifer species Journal of Vegetation Science DOI: |
| Schroeder, T.A., Hember, R., Coops, N.C., Liang, S (2009) Validation of incoming shortwave solar radiation surfaces for use in forest productivity models Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 48: 2331-2458 |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Wulder, M.A., White, J.A. (2009) Prediction and assessment of bark beetle-induced mortality of lodgepole pine using estimates of stand vigor derived from remotely sensed data Remote Sensing of Environment. 113: 1058-1066 |
| Ferster, C., Coops, N.C., Trofymow, T.A (2009) Aboveground Biomass Estimation in a Coastal Forest in British Columbia using Individual Tree Detection from LiDAR Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 35: 3 270-275 |
| Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A., Coops, N.C., Linke, J., McDermid, G., Masek, J., Gao, F., & White, J.C. (2009) A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal- resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS Remote Sensing of Environment. 113: 1613-1627 |
| Coops, N.C., Hember, R. (2009) Physiologically-Derived Predictions of Douglas-fir Site Index in British Columbia. The Forestry Chronicle 85:5 733-744 |
| Bater, C., Coops, N.C. (2009) Evaluating error associated with lidar-derived DEM interpolation under dense forest canopy Computers in Geoscience. 35: 289-300 |
| Coops, N.C., R.H. Waring, M.A. Wulder, A.M. Pidgeon, and V.C. Radeloff, (2009) Bird diversity: A predictable function of satellite-derived estimates of seasonal variation in canopy light absorbance across the United States. Journal of Biogeography. 36 905-918 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, D. Grills, T. Nelson, N.C. Coops, and T. Ebata (2009) Aerial overview survey of the mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia: Communication of impacts BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management. 10(1):45–58. |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D (2009) Large area monitoring with a satellite-based disturbance index sensitive to annual and seasonal variations Remote Sensing of Environment. 113: 1250-1261 |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. (2009) Exploring the relative importance of seasonal variation in production and land cover for satellite derived predictions of breeding bird distributions over Ontario, Canada Remote Sensing of Environment: 113: 668-679 |
| Goodwin, N.R., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Gillanders, S., Schroeder, T.A., Nelson, T (2008) Estimation of Insect Infestation Dynamics using Spectral Trajectories Derived from a Landsat Time Series Remote Sensing of Environment. 112: 3680-3689 |
| Coggins, S., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A (2008) Parameterisation of insect infestation spread models using tree structure and spatial characteristics derived from high-spatial resolution digital aerial imagery Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 34: 485-502. |
| Wulder, M.A., S.M. Ortlepp, J.C. White, N.C. White, N.C. Coops, and S.B. Coggins (2008) Monitoring tree-level insect population dynamics with multi-scale and multi-source remote sensing. Journal of Spatial Science. 53:49-61. |
| Wulder, M.A., C.W. Bater, N.C. Coops, T. Hilker, J.C. White (2008) The role of lidar in sustainable forest management The Forestry Chronicle.. 84(6) 807-826 |
| Thompson, S.D., Gergel, S.E. and N.C. Coops (2008) Classification of Late seral Coastal Temperate Rainforests with High Spatial Resolution QuickBird Imagery Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing: 34(S2): 460-470 |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Hall, F.G., Black, T.A., Chen, B., Krishnan, P.,Wulder, M.A., Sellers, P.J., Middleton, E.M., Huemmrich, K.F (2008) A modeling approach for upscaling gross ecosystem production to the landscape scale using remote sensing data Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 113, G03006, doi:10.1029/2007JG000666. |
| Gillanders, S., Coops, N.C., Goodwin, N., Wulder, M.A (2008) Application Of Landsat Satellite Imagery To Monitor Land Cover Changes At The Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada Canadian Geographer: 52:4 466-485. |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Hall, F.G., Wulder, M. Black, T.A. (2008) Separating physiologically and directionally induced changes in canopy reflectance using BRDF models Remote Sensing of Environment. 112: 2777-2788 |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, N.C. Coops, and C. Butson. (2008) Multi-temporal analysis of high spatial resolution imagery: Issues, investigation, and application. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112: 2729-2740. |
| Hall, F.G., Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Lyapustin, A., Huemmrich, K.F., Middleton, E.M., Drolet, G.G., Margolis, H.A., Black, T.A. (2008) Can Light-Saturated Reductions in Canopy Photosynthetic Capacity Be Observed From Space? Remote Sensing of Environment. 112.2777-2788 |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Duro, D.C., Han, T, and Berry.S. (2008) Large Area Characterization Of Habitat using Satellite Data Across Canada Ecological Indicators. 8: 754-766. |
| Hilker, T, Coops, N.C., Schwalm, C.R., Jassal, R., Black, A., Krishnan, P. (2008) Effects of mutual shading of tree crowns on prediction of photosynthetic light use efficiency in a Coastal Douglas-fir forest Tree Physiology. 28: 825-834 |
| LeMay, V., J. Maedel, and N. C Coops. (2008) Estimating stand structural details using variable-space nearest neighbour analyses to link ground data, forest cover maps, and landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 118: 2578-2591, Elsevier |
| Nightingale, J.M., Fan, W., Coops, N.C. and Waring, R.H. (2008) Predicting tree diversity across the USA as a function of modeled gross primary production Ecological Applications: 18: 93-108 |
| Coops, N.C., Timko, J.A., Wulder, M.A., White, J.C (2008) Investigating the effectiveness of mountain pine beetle mitigation strategies. International Journal of Pest Management 54: 151-165 |
| Wulder, M.A., S. Magnussen, D. Harding, N.C. Coops, P. Boudewyn, and D. Seemann (2008) Stability of surface LIDAR height estimates on a point and polygon basis Journal of Forest Planning: 13: 279-286. |
| Smith, A., Wynne, R., Coops, N.C (2008) Remote characterization of vegetation structure and productivity: plant to landscape scales Introduction Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 34 S2: 3-6 |
| Gillanders, S.N., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Gergel, S.E., Nelson, T. (2008) Multitemporal remote sensing of landscape dynamics and pattern change: Describing natural and anthropogenic trends. Progress in Physical Geography: 32(5) 503-528. |
| Wulder, M.A., S.M. Ortlepp, J.C. White, and N.C. Coops (2008) Impact of sun-surface-sensor geometry upon multi-temporal high spatial resolution satellite imagery. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing: 34(5) 455-461 |
| Coggins, S.B., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops, White, J.C. (2008) Linking survey detection accuracy with ability to mitigate populations of mountain pine beetle. The Forestry Chronicle: 84(6) 900-909. |
| Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, T. Han, N.C. Coops, J.A. Cardille, T. Holland, and D. Grills (2008) Monitoring Canada's forests - Part 2: National forest fragmentation and pattern Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 34: 563-584 |
| Hilker, T., Wulder, M., Coops, N.C (2008) Methods to extract and update forest inventory information using airborne LiDAR and high spatial resolution satellite imagery Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 34: 5-12. |
| Hilker, T., N.C. Coops, M.A. Wulder, T.A. Black, and R.D. Guy. (2008) The use of remote sensing in light use efficiency based models of gross primary production: A review of current status and future requirements Science of the Total Environment. 404, 411-423 |
| White, J.C., Coops, N.C., Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A., Carroll, A.L. (2007) Detecting mountain pine beetle red attack damage with EO-1 Hyperion moisture indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 28: 2111-2121. |
| White, J.C., Coops, N.C, Hilker, T., Wulder, M.A (2007) Use of foliage moisture indices derived from Hyperion satellite imagery to estimate mountain pine beetle red attack. International Journal of Remote Sensing: 28: 2111-2121. |
| Johansen, K., N.C. Coops, S.E. Gergel, Y. Stange. (2007) Application of high spatial resolution satellite imagery for riparian and forest ecosystem classification. Remote Sensing of Environment 110(1): 29-44 |
| Gergel, S.E., Y. Stange, N.C. Coops, C. Bater, K. Johansen, and K.R. Kirby. (2007) What is the value of a good map? An example using high spatial resolution imagery to aid riparian restoration. Ecosystems 10: 688-702 |
| Coops, N.C., Black, A , Jassal, R.S., Trofymow, J.A. and Morgenstern, K. (2007) Comparison of MODIS, Eddy Covariance Determined and Physiologically Modelled Gross Primary Production (GPP) in a Douglas-fir Forest Stand. Remote Sensing of Environment. 107(3) 385-401. |
| Coops, N.C., Jassal, R.S., Leuning, R., Black A.. and Morgenstern, K (2007) Incorporation of a Soil Water Modifier in MODIS Satellite Data Predictions of Gross Primary Productivity. Agricuture and Forest Meteorology. 147: 99-109. |
| Hilker, T., Coops, N.C., Nesic, Z., Black, A and Wulder, M. (2007) An instrument for year round measurements of fast response physiological processes from spectral reflectance. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 56: 72-84. |
| Han, T., M.A. Wulder, J.C. White, N.C. Coops, M.F. Alvarez, and C. Butson, (2007) An efficient protocol to process Landsat images for change detection with Tasselled Cap Transformation IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 147-151. |
| Sims, N., Stone, C., Coops, N.C., Ryan, P. (2007) A decision tree modelling strategy for assessing the health of Pinus radiata using remote sensing imagery. New Zealand Journal of Forest Research. 37(1) 57-80. |
| Nightingale, J.M., Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Hargrove, H.H. (2007) Comparison of MODIS Gross Primary Production Estimates for U.S. Forests With Those Generated by 3-PGS, a Model That Accounts for Spatial Variation in Soil Properties Remote Sensing of Environment. 109(4): 500-509 |
| Coops, N.C., Coggins, S.B., Kurz, W.A. (2007) Mapping The Environmental Limitations To Growth Of Coastal Douglas-Fir Stands On Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Tree Physiology. 27: 805-815 |
| Coops, N., Hilker, T., Wulder, M., St-Onge, B., Siggins, A , Newhnam, G Trofymow, J.A. (2007) Estimating Canopy Structure of Douglas-fir forest stands from discrete-return LIDAR Trees: Structure and Function. 21(3) 295-310. |
| Duro, D., Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Han, T (2007) Development Of A Large Area Biodiversity Monitoring System Driven By Remote Sensing. Progress in Physical Geography. 31:3, 235-261. |
| Coops, N.C., Duro, D., Wulder, M.A., Han, T (2007) Predicting Afternoon MODIS Land Surface Temperatures (LST) based on Morning MODIS Overpass, Location, And Elevation Information For Canada International Journal of Remote Sensing 28: pp 2391-2396. |
| Wulder, MA, White, J.C., Coops, N.C., Nelson, T., Boots, B. (2007) Using local spatial autocorrelation to compare
outputs from a forest growth model Ecological Modelling. 209: 264-276. |
| Goodwin, N., Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D.C. (2007) Development of a simulation model to predict LiDAR interception in structurally different forests Remote Sensing of Environment 111:4 481- 492. |
| Wulder, M.A. C.W. Bater, N.C. Coops, Y. Hirata, and T. Sweda, (2007) Advances in laser remote sensing of forests in Larson B.A (ed) “Sustainable Development” by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pp. 223-234., Nova Science Publishers |
| LeMay, V., J. Maedel, and N. Coops (2006) Estimating stand structure using ground data, forest cover polygons, and landsat imagery Proceedings of the IUFRO 2006 Nearest Neighbors Workshop: Meeting in the Middle, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, August 28 to 30, 2006 [Abstract] |
| Coops, N., M. Wulder, and J. White, (2006) Integrating remotely sensed and ancillary data sources to characterize a mountain pine beetle infestation Remote Sensing of Environment. 105: 83-97. |
| Wulder, M., J. White, B. Bentz, F. Alvarez, and N.C Coops (2006) Estimating the probability of mountain pine beetle red-attack damage, Remote Sensing of Environment. 101: 150-166 |
| Goodwin, N., Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D.C. (2006) Assessment of forest structure with airborne LIDAR and the effects of flying altitude. Remote Sensing of Environment. 103: 140-152. |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M., White, J.C. (2006) Identifying and Describing Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern:
Data Selection Issues and Methodological Implications In Wulder, M., Franklin, S. Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern: Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches. Taylor and Francis. CRC Press. pp. 33- 60. |
| Coops, N., Johnson, M., Wulder, M and J. White, (2006) Assessment of Quickbird high spatial resolution imagery to detect red-attack damage due to mountain pine beetle infestation Remote Sensing of Environment: 103 67 - 80 |
| Waring, R.H., Coops, N.C., Fan, W., Nightingale, J. (2006) MODIS enhanced vegetation index predicts tree species richness across forested ecoregions in the contiguous U.S.A Remote Sensing of Environment: 103: 218-226 |
| Leuning, R., Hughes, D, Daniel, P., Coops, N.C., Newnham, G (2006) A multi-angle spectrometer for automatic measurement of plant canopy reflectance spectra. Remote Sensing of Environment: 103: 236-245 |
| Hill, M., Held, A., Leuning, R., Coops, N.C., Hughes, D. and Cleugh, H.A. (2006) MODIS spectral signals at flux tower sites: relationships with daytime carbon flux and LUE estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment. 103: 351-368 |
| Coops, N.C., Goodwin, N., Stone, C. (2006) Predicting Spherophsis sapinea Damage on Pinus radiata stands using CASI-2 Derived Spectral Indices and Spectral Mixture Analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 72(4) 404-417 |
| Coops, N.C., Goodwin, N., Stone, C and Sims, N. (2006) Assessment of Forest Plantation Canopy Condition from High Spatial Resolution Digital Imagery Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 30: 855-866. |
| Goodwin, N., Coops, N.C. Stone, C. (2005) Quantifying Forest Canopy Condition from Airborne Imagery using Spectral Mixture Analysis and Fractional Abundances. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7: 11-28 |
| Coops, N.C., Stone, C., (2005) Use of a radiative transfer model to examine variation in reflectance spectra due to damaged Pinus radiata foliage. Australian Journal of Botany 53: 417-429 |
| Swenson, J., Waring, R., Fan, W., Coops, N.C. (2005) Predicting Site Index with a Physiologically-based Growth Model across Oregon, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 1697 - 1707 |
| Lovell, J., Jupp, D.L.B., Newnham, G., Culvenor, D.S., Coops, N.C. (2005) Lidar simulation for forest height retrieval. Forest Ecology and Management. 214: 398-412. |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H. and Law, B. (2005) Predicting the Influence of Climate Variability on the Productivity and Distribution of Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Modelling. 183: 107-124 |
| Wulder, M.A., White, J.C., Coops, N.C., Han, T. Alvarez, M.F. (2005) A protocol for detecting and mapping mountain pine beetle damage from a time-series of Landsat TM or ETM+ data, Report prepared for the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range, October 31, 2005. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC. 70p. |
| Coops, N.C., McVicar, T.R. (2004) Temporal Remote Sensing. In “Guidelines for Conducting Surveys: The Blue Book” CSIRO Press. Canberra. |
| Coops, N.C., Smith, M.L., Jacobson, K. Martin,. M, Ollinger, S. (2004) Estimation of Leaf Area Index using Three techniques in a Mature Native Eucalypt Canopy. Austral Ecology. 29: 332-341 |
| Coops, N.C., Stone, C., Culvenor, D.S., and Chisholm, L. (2004) Damage and Discoloration in Eucalypt Leaves and Crowns as Predicted by Red - Green and Red - Edge Indices. Journal of Environmental Quality.33: 956-964. |
| Wulder, M., Hall, R., Coops, N.C, and S. Franklin. (2004) High spatial resolution remotely-sensed data for the study of forest ecosystems. Bioscience 54(6): 511-521 |
| Stone, C., Coops, N.C. (2004) Assessment and monitoring damage from insects in Australian native forest and plantations. Australian Journal of Entomology.43: 283–292. |
| Magnussen, S., Luther, J., Coops, N and Carroll, A.L. (2004) An approach for the analysis of vegetation spectra using non-linear mixed modeling of truncated power spectra. Annals of Forest Science. 61: 515-523 |
| Coops, N.C., White, J.D., and Scott, N.A. (2004) Effect of forest fragmentation on broad scale estimates of forest biomass accumulation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 20(4) 819-838 |
| Coops, N.C., Wulder, M., Culvenor, D.C., St-Onge, B. (2004) Comparison of forest attributes extracted from fine spatial resolution multi-spectral and lidar data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 30(6): 855-866 |
| Coops, N. C., Stanford, M., Old., K.M., Dudinski, M., Culvenor, D., Stone.C (2003) Assessment of Dothistroma needle blight of Pinus radiata (D.Don) using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery. Phytopathology. 93(12) 1524 – 1532. |
| Coops, N.C., Smith, M.L., Martin, M.M, Ollinger, S. (2003) Prediction of Eucalypt Foliage Nitrogen Content from Satellite Derived Hyperspectral Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41:6 1338- 1346. |
| Coops, N.C., White, J.D. (2003) Modeling forest productivity using data acquired through remote sensing. In: Methods and Applications for Remote Sensing of Forests: Concepts and Case Studies, Wulder, M. and Franklin, S.E. (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Lovell, J.L., Jupp, D.L.B., Culvenor, D.S. and Coops, N.C. (2003) Using airborne and ground-based ranging lidar to measure canopy structure in Australian forests. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 1-16. |
| Coops, N.C., White, J.D., and Scott, N.A. (2002) Assessment of regional forest and scrub productivity using a coupled vegetation process model with remote sensing. Geocarto 17(4) 1 - 12. |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H. and Moncrieth, J. (2002) Estimating Mean Monthly Incident Solar Radiation on Horizontal and Inclined Slopes from Mean Monthly Temperatures Extremes. International Journal of Biometeorology. 44(4): 204-211 |
| Coops, N.C., Stone, C., Culvenor, D.S., Chisholm, L., Merton, R. (2002) Predicting Chlorophyll Content in Eucalypt Vegetation at the Leaf and Canopy Level using High Spectral Resolution Imagery. Tree Physiology. 23:23–31 Tree Physiology. 23:23–31 |
| Coops, N.C. (2002) Remote sensing at the Warra long term ecological research (LTER) site. TasForests 13, 1: 141-154. |
| Coops, N.C. (2002) Eucalypt Forest Structure and Synthetic Aperture Radar Backscatter: A Theoretical Analysis. Tree Structure and Function. 16 (1): 28 - 46 |
| Coops, N.C. Catling, P.C. (2002) Prediction of the spatial distribution and relative abundance of ground-dwelling mammals using remote sensing imagery and simulation models. Landscape Ecology. 17: 173-188. |
| Coops, N.C., Dury, S., Smith, M.L., Martin,. M, Ollinger, S. (2002) Comparison of Green Leaf Eucalypt Spectra using Spectral Decomposition. Australian Journal of Botany. 50: 567 – 576. |
| Waring, R.H., Coops, N.C., Ohmann, J., Sarr, D. (2002) Predicting Woody Plant Richness from Seasonal Ratios of Photosynthesis. Ecology. 83:2964-2970 |
| Landsberg, J.J., Waring, R.H., Coops, N.C. (2001) Performance of the forest productivity model 3-PG applied to a wide range of forest types. Model structure, calibration and sensitivity analysis. Forest Ecology and Management. 172: 199-214. |
| Landsberg, J, J., Waring, R.H., Coops, N.C. (2001) The 3-PG Forest Model: Matters Arising from Evaluation against Plantation Data from Different Countries. In Jean-Michel Carnus, Roderick Dewar, Denis Loustau and Margarida Tomé (eds.)Models for the Sustainable Management of Temperate Plantation Forests Proceedings of the International Workshop. Bordeaux, France. 7–9 September 2000 |
| Stone, C., Kile, G., Old, K., Coops, N.C. (2001) Forest Health Monitoring in Australia, National and Regional Commitments and Operational Realities. Ecosystem Health. 7(1) 48-58 |
| Stone, C., Chisolm, L., Coops, N.C. (2001) Spectral Reflectance Characteristics of Eucalypt Foliage Damaged by Insects. Australian Journal of Botany 49: 687-698. |
| Tickle, P.K., Coops, N.C., and Hafner, S.D. (2001). (2001) Comparison of a forest process model (3PG-SPATIAL) with growth and yield models to predict growth at Bago state forest, NSW. Australian Forestry. 64(2) 111-222. |
| Tickle, P.K., Coops, N.C., and Hafner, S.D. (2001) Assessing forest productivity at local scales across a native eucalypt forest using a process model, 3PG-SPATIAL. Forest Ecology and Management. 152: 1-3, 275-291. |
| Catling, P.C., Coops, N.C., Burt, R.J. (2001) The distribution and abundance of ground-dwelling mammals in relation to time since wildfire and vegetation structure in southeastern Australia. Wildlife Research. 28: 555-564 |
| Coops, N.C. Catling, P.C. (2001) Prediction of Historical Forest Habitat Pattern using Gamma Distributions and Simple Boolean Logic from High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing. Computers and Geoscience 27: 795-805. |
| Coops, N.C., Loughhead, A., Ryan, P.J. and Hutton, R. (2001) Development of daily spatial heat unit mapping from monthly climatic surfaces for the Australian Continent. International Journal of GIS. 15(4): 345-361. |
| Coops, N.C. and Waring, R.H. (2001) Assessing forest growth across Southwestern Oregon under a range of current and future global change scenarios using a process model, 3-PG. Global Change Biology. 7: 15-29. |
| Coops, N.C. and R. H. Waring. (2001) The use of multi-scale remote sensing imagery to derive regional estimates of forest growth capacity using 3-PGS. Remote Sensing of Environment 75: 324-334. |
| Coops, N.C. and R. H. Waring. (2001) Estimating Maximum Potential Site Productivity and Site Water Stress of the Eastern Siskiyous using 3-PGS. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 143-154. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 143-154. |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Landsberg, J.J. (2001) Estimation of potential forest productivity across the Oregon transect using satellite data and monthly weather records. International journal of Remote Sensing. 22:18 3797-3812. |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Brown, S., and Running, S. (2001) Predictions of Net Primary Production and Seasonal Patterns in Water Use with Forest Growth Models using Daily and Monthly Time-steps in southwestern Oregon. Ecological Modelling. 142, (1-2) 61 – 81. |
| Coops, N.C. (2000) Comparison of topographic and physiographic properties measured on the ground with those derived from digital elevation models. Northwest Science. 74:2 116-130 |
| Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D (2000) Utilizing local variance of simulated high-spatial resolution imagery to predict spatial pattern of forest stands. Remote Sensing of Environment. 71(3): 248-260. |
| Coops, N.C., Catling, P.C. (2000) Estimating Forest Habitat Complexity in relation to Time since Fire using Binomial Distributions. Austral Ecology 25, 344-351. |
| White, J.D., Coops, N.C., and Scott, N.A. (2000) Predicting broad-scale forest and scrub biomass for New Zealand: Investigating the application of a physiological based model. Ecological Modeling 131(2-3): 175 – 190 |
| Stone, C. Coops, N.C. and Culvenor, D. (1999) Conceptual development of a Eucalypt Canopy Condition Index using high resolution spatial and spectral remote sensing imagery. Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 11(4) 23-45 |
| Landsberg, J.J., and Coops, N.C. (1999) Modelling forest productivity across large areas and long periods. Natural Resource Modelling. 12:1-28. |
| Catling, P.C, Coops, N.C. (1999) Prediction of the distribution and abundance of small mammals on the eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australian from airborne videography Wildlife Research 26: 641 - 650 |
| Coops, N.C (1999) Linking multi-resolution satellite-derived estimates of canopy photosynthetic capacity and meteorological data to assess forest productivity in a Pinus radiata (D. Don) stand. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 65, 10: 1149-1156. |
| Coops, N.C., Bi, H., Barnett, P., Ryan, P. (1999) Prediction of Mean and Current Volume Increments of a Eucalypt Forest using Historical Landsat MSS Data. Journal of Sustainable Forestry . 9: 149-168. |
| Coops, N.C., Culvenor, D., Preston, R and Catling. P.C. (1998) Procedures for predicting habitat and structural attributes in eucalypt forests using high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery. Australian Forestry. 61:4 pp. 244-252. |
| Coops, N.C., Delahaye, A., Pook, E (1998) Estimation of eucalypt forest leaf area on the south coast of New South Wales using Landsat MSS data. Australian Journal of Botany. 45. Pp. 757-769. |
| Coops, N.C., Ryan, P., Bishop, A.W. (1998) Investigating CASI Responses to Soil Properties and Disturbance across an Australian Eucalypt Forest. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 24(2): 153-168 |
| Coops, N.C., Waring, R.H., Landsberg, J.J. (1998) Assessing forest productivity in Australia and New Zealand using a physiologically-based model driven with averaged monthly weather data and satellite derived estimates of canopy photosynthetic capacity. Forest Ecology and Management. 104: 113-127. |
| Coops, N.C., Bishop, A.W., Baker, B. (1998) Remote sensing of forest vegetation ''98. An Interactive CD-ROM |
| Coops, N.C., Catling, P.C. (1997) Predicting the Complexity of Habitat in Forests from Airborne Videography for Wildlife Management. Int. J. Remote Sensing. 18:12 pp. 2677-2686. |
| Coops, N.C., Catling, P.C. (1996) Utilising airborne multispectral videography to predict forest structure in eucalypt forests for wildlife management. Wildlife Research. 24: 691-703. |
| Coops, N.C., Walker, P.A. (1996) The use of the Gower Metric statistic to compare temporal profiles from AVHRR data: A forestry and an agriculture application. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 17, 17:3531-3537. |
|
 Unit
Associations
|
 Professional
Affiliations
| |
 |
Nicholas C Coops
Remote Sensing of Forest Vegetation, Spatial Sciences, Modelling
B. App. Sci (RMIT), Ph.D. (RMIT).
| | Faculty of Forestry
Forest Sciences Centre
2424 Main Mall, UBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone: (604) 822-6452
Fax: (604) 822-8645
Email:  |
| |
| |