Warren B. Cohen

Assistant Professor (Courtesy)
Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology

321 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: 321 Richardson Hall
• Phone: 541-750-7322
• Fax: 541-750-7329

• B.S., 1978, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
• M.S., 1984, University of Maine, Orono
• Ph.D., 1989, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins

• FS 505, Reading & Conference

Scaling field-based ecological information to landscape and regional levels with remote sensing and models; examining losses of information with scaling-induced generalization; interpretations and applications of lidar data for characterizations of forest structure.

LARSE - Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology

1. Goward, S.N., J.G. Masek, W.B. Cohen, G. Moisen, G.. Collatz, S. Healey, R.A. Houghton, C. Huang, R. Kennedy, B. Law, S. Powell, D. Turner, M.A. Wulder. 2008. Forest disturbance and North American carbon flux, EOS Transactions 89:105-116, American Geophysical Union.
2. Hayes, D.J., W.B. Cohen, S.A. Sader, and D.E. Irwin. 2008. Estimating proportional change in forest cover as a continuous variable from multi-year MODIS data, Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:735-749.
3. Healey, S.P., W.B. Cohen, T.A. Spies, M. Moeur, D. Pflugmacher, M.G. Whitley, and M. Lefsky. In press. The Relative Impact of harvest and fire upon landscape-level dynamics of older forests: lessons from the Northwest Forest Plan, Ecosystems.DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9182-8
4. Liu, W., C. Song, T.A. Schroeder, and W.B. Cohen. 2008. Predicting forest successional stages using multitemporal Landsat imagery and Forest Inventory and Analysis data, International Journal of Remote Sensing 29:3855-3872.
5. Masek, J.G., C. Huang, W.B. Cohen, J. Kutler, F.G. Hall, R. Wolfe, and P. Nelson. 2008. North American forest disturbance mapped from a decadal Landsat record: methodology and initial results, Remote Sensing of Environment 112:2914-2926.
6. Pascual, C., A. García-Abril, L.G. García-Montero, S. Martín-Fernández, and W.B. Cohen. 2008. Forest stand delineation and structure characterization using lidar data in heterogeneous pine forests of Spain. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3677-3685.
7. Powell, S.L., W.B. Cohen, Z. Yang, J. Pierce, and M. Alberti. 2008. Quantification of impervious surface in the Snohomish Water Resources Inventory Area of Western Washington from 1972-2006, Remote Sensing of Environment 112:1895-1908.
8. Schroeder,T.A., A. Gray, M.E. Harmon, D.O. Wallin, and W.B. Cohen. 2008. Estimating live forest carbon dynamics with a Landsat-based curve fitting approach , Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 02:023519, DOI:10.1117/12.804055.
9. Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, S.N. Goward, J.G. Masek, J.R.Irons, M. Herold, W.B. Cohen, T.R. Loveland, C.E. Woodcock. 2008. Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring, Remote Sensing of Environment. 112:955-969.
10. Hayes, D.J. and W.B. Cohen. 2007. Spatial, spectral and temporal patterns of tropical forest cover change as observed with multiple scales of optical satellite data, Remote Sensing of Environment 106:1-16.
11. Kennedy, R.E., W.B. Cohen, A.A. Kirschbaum, and E. Haunreiter. 2007. Protocol for Landsat-based monitoring of landscape dynamics at North Coast and Cascades Network Parks: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 2-G1, 126 p.
12. Kennedy, R.E., W.B. Cohen, T.A. Schroeder. 2007. Trajectory-based change detection for automated characterization of forest disturbance dynamics, Remote Sensing of Environment 110:370-386.
13. Lobser, S.E. and W.B. Cohen. 2007. The MODIS tasselled cap: land cover characteristics expressed through transformed MODIS data, International Journal of Remote Sensing 28:5079-5101.
14. Pflugmacher, D., O.N. Krankina, and W.B. Cohen. 2007. Satellite-based peatland mapping: potential of the MODIS sensor, Global and Planetary Change 56:248-257.