Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Michelle Anne Hofton

(RESEARCH PROFESSOR)

Michelle Anne Hofton's Contact Card & Information.
Email: michelle.a.hofton@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.2866
Org Code: 61A
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 61A.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIV OF MARYLAND

Missions & Projects

Publications


Refereed

2022. "GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space." Environmental Research Letters 17 (9): 095001 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac8694] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission." Remote Sensing of Environment 270 112845 [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112845] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge." Reviews of Geophysics (59): e2020RG000712 [10.1029/2020rg000712] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Fusing simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR data for regional aboveground biomass mapping." Remote Sensing of Environment 253 112234 [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112234] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data." Remote Sensing of Environment 253 112165 [10.1016/j.rse.2020.112165] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Biomass estimation from simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR across environmental gradients in Sonoma County, California." Remote Sensing of Environment 242 111779 [10.1016/j.rse.2020.111779] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography." Science of Remote Sensing 1 100002 [10.1016/j.srs.2020.100002] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities." Environmental Research Letters 14 (8): 080201 [10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "The GEDI simulator: A large‐footprint waveform lidar simulator for calibration and validation of spaceborne missions." Earth and Space Science 6 (2): 294-310 [10.1029/2018ea000506] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Chronosequence predictions are robust in a Neotropical secondary forest, but plots miss the mark." Global Change Biology 24 (3): 933-943 [10.1111/gcb.14036] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "The 2016 NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and Lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of future satellite missions." 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 4286-4287 [10.1109/igarss.2017.8127949] [Proceedings]

2017. "Canopy height and structure measurements of Gabon from medium-footprint waveform lidar." 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 4294-4295 [10.1109/igarss.2017.8127952] [Proceedings]

2017. "Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE): The Arctic Radiant Energy System During the Critical Seasonal Ice Transition." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (7): 1399-1426 [10.1175/bams-d-14-00277.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Assessment of NASA airborne laser altimetry data using ground-based GPS data near Summit Station, Greenland." The Cryosphere 11 (2): 681-692 [10.5194/tc-11-681-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Characterizing leaf area index (LAI) and vertical foliage profile (VFP) over the United States." Biogeosciences 13 (1): 239-252 [10.5194/bg-13-239-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Regional-scale application of lidar: Variation in forest canopy structure across the southeastern US." Forest Ecology and Management 329 214-226 [10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.009] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Arctic sea ice freeboard retrieval with waveform characteristics for NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) and Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS)." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53 (3): 1403-1410 [10.1109/TGRS.2014.2339737] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Estimation of ICESat intercampaign elevation biases from comparison of lidar data in East Antarctica." Geophysical Research Letters 40 (21): 5698-5703 [10.1002/2013gl057652] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Characterization of Canopy Layering in Forested Ecosystems Using Full Waveform Lidar." Remote Sensing 5 (4): 2014-2036 [10.3390/rs5042014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Retrieval of vertical LAI profiles over tropical rain forests using waveform lidar at La Selva, Costa Rica." Remote Sensing of Environment 124 242-250 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.05.005] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "An Empirical Assessment of Temporal Decorrelation Using the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar over Forested Landscapes." Remote Sensing 4 (12): 975-986 [10.3390/rs4040975] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Mapping biomass and stress in the Sierra Nevada using lidar and hyperspectral data fusion." Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (11): 2917-2930 [10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.027] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Use of waveform lidar and hyperspectral sensors to assess selected spatial and structural patterns associated with recent and repeat disturbance and the abundance of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) in a temperate mixed hardwood and conifer forest." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 5 (1): 053504 [10.1117/1.3554639] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Solid Earth Applications of DESDynI Lidar." Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, 25-30 July, 2010 [10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652368] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "DESDynI lidar for solid earth applications." 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium [10.1109/igarss.2010.5652368] [Proceedings]

2010. "Estimation of tropical forest height and biomass dynamics using lidar remote sensing at La Selva, Costa Rica." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 115 (G2): [10.1029/2009jg000933] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Comparative analysis of SRTM–NED vegetation canopy height to LIDAR‐derived vegetation canopy metrics." International Journal of Remote Sensing 30 (11): 2797-2811 [10.1080/01431160802555853] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Assessing the Performance of 20-25m Footprint Waveform Lidar data Collected in ICESat Data Corridors in Greenland." Geophysical Research Letters 35 (24): [10.1029/2008GL035774] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Integrating waveform lidar with hyperspectral imagery for inventory of a northern temperate forest." Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (4): 1856-1870 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.09.009] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Forest canopy recovery from the 1938 hurricane and subsequent salvage damage measured with airborne LiDAR." Remote Sensing of Environment 109 (2): 142-153 [10.1016/j.rse.2006.12.016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Comparison of SRTM-NED data to LIDAR derived canopy metrics." 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium [10.1109/igarss.2007.4423431] [Proceedings]

2006. "Mapping forest structure for wildlife habitat analysis using multi-sensor (LiDAR, SAR/InSAR, ETM+, Quickbird) synergy." Remote Sensing of Environment 102 (1-2): 63-73 [10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "Validation of SRTM Elevations Over Vegetated and Non-vegetated Terrain Using Medium Footprint Lidar." Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 72 (3): 279-285 [10.14358/pers.72.3.279] [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "The use of waveform lidar to measure northern temperate mixed conifer and deciduous forest structure in New Hampshire." Remote Sensing of Environment 105 (3): 248-261 [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Mapping forest structure for wildlife habitat analysis using waveform lidar: Validation of montane ecosystems." Remote Sensing of Environment 96 (3-4): 427-437 [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Validation of Vegetation Canopy Lidar sub-canopy topography measurements for a dense tropical forest." Journal of Geodynamics 34 (3-4): 491-502 [10.1016/s0264-3707(02)00046-7] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Laser altimeter return pulse correlation: a method for detecting surface topographic change." Journal of Geodynamics 34 (3-4): 477-489 [10.1016/s0264-3707(02)00043-1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Ionospheric signature of surface mine blasts from Global Positioning System measurements." Geophysical Journal International 132 (1): 191-202 [10.1046/j.1365-246x.1998.00438.x] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "Estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics using large-footprint lidar." Remote Sensing of Environment 79 (2-3): 305-319 [10.1016/s0034-4257(01)00281-4] [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "Decomposition of laser altimeter waveforms." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 38 (4): 1989-1996 [10.1109/36.851780] [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "An airborne scanning laser altimetry survey of Long Valley, California." International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 (12): 2413-2437 [10.1080/01431160050030547] [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "Using airborne laser altimetry to detect topographic change at Long Valley Caldera, California." Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism (Geophysical Monograph Series) 116 249-264 [10.1029/gm116p0249] [Article in Book]

1999. "Modeling laser altimeter return waveforms over complex vegetation using high-resolution elevation data." Geophysical Research Letters 26 (16): 2509-2512 [10.1029/1999gl010484] [Journal Article/Letter]

1999. "The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor: a medium-altitude, digitisation-only, airborne laser altimeter for mapping vegetation and topography." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 54 (2-3): 115-122 [10.1016/s0924-2716(99)00002-7] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2019. "Space-Time Coverage Scenarios for A Global Snow Satellite Constellation." IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 28 July - 2 August 2019 [10.1109/igarss.2019.8899017] [Proceedings]

2016. "Antarctic sea-ice freeboard and estimated thickness from NASA's ICESAT and ICEBRIDGE observations." 2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS), Beijing, China, 10-15 July 2016 7682-7685 [10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7731003] [Proceedings]

2012. "The Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the Derivation of Range and Range Distributions from Laser Pulse Waveform Analysis for Surface Elevations, Roughness, Slope, and Vegetation Heights." NASA/TM-2012-208641/Vol 7 134 pp [Full Text] [Report]

2002. "Laser Pulse Correlation: A Method for detecting subtle topographic change using lidar return waveforms." International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume XXXIV-3/W4, Annapolis, Maryland, 22-24 Oct. 2001 XXXIV (3/W4): 181-184 [Full Text] [Proceedings]

2002. "Modeling Lidar Waveforms Using a Radiative Transfer Model ." International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume XXXIV-3/W4, Annapolis, Maryland, 22-24 Oct. 2001 [Full Text] [Proceedings]

2002. "Wide-Swath Imaging Lidar Development for Airborne and Spaceborne Applications ." International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Volume XXXIV-3/W4, Annapolis, Maryland, 22-24 Oct. 2001 17-19 [Full Text] [Proceedings]