Jonathan Greenberg

Associate Professor, Remote Sensing

Department: Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Office: 775-682-7933
Fax: 775-784-4227
Email: jgreenberg@unr.edu
Building: FA
Room: 220a
Mailstop: 186
Website: https://www.gearslab.org/

Summary

My research centers on addressing questions of the impacts of climate change and land use/land cover change on vegetated ecosystems using remote sensing data. My research ranges across scales from individual plants to the globe, across many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and utilizes state-of-the-art remote sensing imagery including hyperspectral, hyperspatial, multi-temporal, thermal, and LiDAR data.

Education

B.S. Boston University, 1996
Ph.D. University of California at Davis, 2004

Publications

Journals

Estimation of Fractional Plant Lifeform Cover for the Conterminous United States Using Landsat Imagery and Airborne LiDAR

2022

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 60, 1-14

A. Parra, J.A. Greenberg

How interactions between wildfire and seasonal soil moisture fluxes drive nitrogen cycling in Northern Sierra Nevada forests

2022

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31 (2022) 786–798

M.K. Brady, E.J. Hanan, M.B. Dickinson, J.R. Miesel, L. Wade, J. Greenberg

Drivers and predictions of ice phenology in mountain lakes in the Western United States derived from remote sensing.

2021

Limnology and Oceanography.

Caldwell, T.J., S. Chandra, T.P. Albright, A.A. Harpold, T. Dilts, J.A. Greenberg, S. Sadro, and M.D. Dettinger.

Phenology-based classification of invasive annual grasses to the species level.

2021

Remote Sensing of Environment, 263, 112568

Weisberg, P. J., Dilts, T. E., Greenberg, J. A., Johnson, K. N., Pai, H., Sladek, C., … Ready, A.

Unraveling the Controls on Snow Disappearance in Montane Conifer Forests Using Multi-Site Lidar.

2021

Water Resources Research, 57(12), e2020WR027522

Safa, H., Krogh, S. A., Greenberg, J., Kostadinov, T. S., & Harpold, A. A.

Increasing the Efficacy of Forest Thinning for Snow Using High-Resolution Modeling: A Proof of Concept in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA

2020

Ecohydrology

Harpold, A.A., Krogh, S., Kohler, M., Eckberg, D., Greenberg, J., Sterle, G., and Broxton, P.D.

A spatialized classification approach for land cover mapping using hyperspatial imagery

2019

Remote Sensing of Environment Vol(232)

ZouY., Greenberg, J.

Use of multispectral satellite remote sensing to assess mixing of suspended sediment downstream of large river confluences.

2018

Journal of Hydrology, 556, 325-338.

Muhammad, U., Rhoads, B., Greenberg, J.

Effect of spatial filtering on characterizing soil properties from imaging spectrometer data.

2017

Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10(9), 4149-4170.

Dutta, D., Kumar, P., Greenberg, J.

Effects of temporally external auxiliary data on model-based inference.

2017

Remote Sensing of Environment, 198, 150-159.

Hou, Z., Xu, Q., Greenberg, J., Liu, J., Heiskanen, J., Pitkänen, S., Packalen, P.

Quantifying environmental limiting factors on tree cover using geospatial data.

2015

PLOS One 10(2): e0114648.

Greenberg, J.A., M.J. Santos, S.Z. Dobrowski, V.C. Vanderbilt, and S.L. Ustin.

Using LiDAR data analysis to estimate changes in insolation under largescale riparian deforestation.

2012

Journal of the American Water Resources Association 48(5): 939948.

Greenberg, J.A., E.L. Hestir, D. Riano, G.J. Scheer and S.L. Ustin.

Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations

2011

Science Vol. 331, Issue 6015, pp. 324-327

Shawn M. Crimmins, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Jonathan A. Greenberg, John T. Abatzoglou, Alison R. Mynsberge

Least cost distance analysis for spatial interpolation.

2011

Computers & Geosciences 37:272276.

Greenberg, J.A., C. Rueda, E.L. Hestir, M.J. Santos and S.L. Ustin.

Limitations on maximum tree density using hyperspatial remote sensing and environmental gradient analysis.

2009

Remote Sensing of Environment 113(1): 94101.

Greenberg, J. A., S. Z. Dobrowski, and V. C. Vanderbilt.

A bottom-up approach to vegetation mapping of the Lake Tahoe Basin using hyperspatial image analysis.

2006

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 72(5): 581589. Special issue on “Mapping from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery”.

Greenberg, J.A., S.Z. Dobrowski, C.M. Ramirez, J.L. Tuil, and S.L. Ustin.

Shadow allometry: estimating tree structural parameters using hyperspatial image analysis.

2005

Remote Sensing of Environment. 97(1):1525.

Greenberg, J. A., S. Z. Dobrowski, and S. L. Ustin.

Survival analysis of a neotropical rainforest using multitemporal satellite imagery.

2005

Remote Sensing of Environment 96(2):202211.

Greenberg, J. A., S. C. Kefauver, H. C. Stimson, C. J. Yeaton, and S. L. Ustin.