About the Satellite, Airborne, and UAV Remote Sensing Group

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About Us

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Satellite, Airborne, and Drone Remote Sensing Lab, operated by Co-I-Palace, is developing, and leading the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for environmental scientific research. We are environmental scientists specializing in the interdisciplinary applications of geospatial science and remote sensing. Our research spans the terrestrial carbon cycle, vegetation dynamics, landscape ecology, and snow characterization, employing field measurements, remote sensing, and geospatial analysis. This work ranges from field studies of vegetation structure to the use of satellite imagery for predicting disease, understanding forest dynamics, and identifying and interpreting past human settlement patterns.

We have served as Principal Investigators on more than fifteen major remote sensing projects, with research supported by NASA, NSF, USAID, USDA, USGS, and DOD. We established an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) center and have deployed UAS platforms for six field campaigns around the world. As former affiliate faculty at the University of Brasília, we have supported and hosted visiting Brazilian PhD students.

At the University of New Hampshire, the Satellite, Airborne, and Drone Remote Sensing Lab — operated by our team — is advancing the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental research. The lab has been collecting long-term data at several sites for over twelve consecutive years, with projects conducted in remote regions including Alaska, northern Canada, New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, Vermont, northern Sweden, and northern Finland.

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Principal Investigator

Michael Palace

Research Staff

Franklin Sullivan

Graduate Students

Darlyn Chavez (MS) – UNH - Earth Science

Else Schlerman (PhD) – UNH – Natural Resource and Earth System Science Program (co-advised with Teresa Cohn)

Emma Burkett (PhD) – UNH – Natural Resource and Earth System Science Program (co-advised with Julie Bryce)

Alumni

Christina Herrick – Research Scientist III

Sophie Burke – Postdoctoral Researcher

Brittani Chapman (MS) – UNH - Earth Science

Dylan Kelly (MS) – UNH - Earth Science

Melissa Clark (PhD) – UNH – Natural Resource and Earth System Science Program

Crystal McMichael – Postdoctoral Researcher

Jessica DelGreco  (MS) – UNH - Earth Science

Tim Algeo (PhD) – UNH – Natural Resource and Earth System Science Program

Julia Shimbo – Visting PhD student from University of Brasilia

Sabrina C. Miranda - Visting PhD student from University of Brasilia

  • Tropical Forest Biometric Property Estimation Using Remote Sensing
  • Amazonia Drought and Fire
  • Geospatial Archaeological Studies
  • Eco-Epidemiology - Lyme Disease
  • Characterization of Peatland Vegetation Using Remote Sensing (UAS)
  • Forest Biophysical Properties using LIDAR (Terrestrial, UAS, and Airborne)
  • Cynobacteria Analysis using Hyperspectral Imagery
  • UAS Thermal Imagery to Survey Moose in NH
  • UAS LiDAR to Estimate Pine Marten and Snowshoe Hare Habitat
  • UAS LiDAR to Estimate Stream Bank Erosion

  • Cynobacteria Analysis using Hyperspectral Imagery
  • Biometric Forest Studies in Eastern Oregon
  • Snow Characterization using LIDAR and Hyperspectral Imagery
  • Cerrado Biomass Estimation
  • Amazonian Black Earth Geospatial and Remote Sensing Estimation
  • Eco-Epidemiology - Rabies
  • Carbon Monitoring System in Indonesia
  • Coarse Woody Debris in Tropical Forests
  • New England Cottontail Distribution and Genetic Landscape Ecology
  • Acoustic Sensors for Ebullition of Methane Gases

2025 – Video by the NH Fish and Game highlighting work on using thermal images from drones to count moose. 

2024 – Work highlighted in UNH SPARK. Article discussed use of UAS to examine environmental science.

2020 – Newly funded project highlighted in article “UNH receives $3.6M to examine climate change effect on ecosystems” in article.

2018 – Work on UAS and cyanobacteria highlighted NH Public Radio, September 4. “Researchers Recruit Drones, Satellites in Quest to Understand Cyanobacteria.” 

Wallace, Dorothy, Michael Palace, Lucas Eli Price, and Xun Shi. 2025. "Time to Emergence of the Lyme Disease Pathogen in Habitats of the Northeastern U.S.A." Insects 16, no. 6: 631. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16060631 

Varner, R.K., Cronin, D.R., Crill, P., Palace, M., McCalley, C.K., Deng, J., Herrick, C., Kuhn, M., Hodgkins, S.B., McArthur, K., Singer, J.D., Bolduc, B., Li, Y.-F., The Archaea to Atmosphere (A2A) Project Team, EMERGE Institute Coordinators, Li, C., Tyson, G., Frolking, S., Chanton, J.P., Persson, A., Saleska, S.R., Rich, V.I., 2025. From Archaea to the atmosphere: remotely sensing Arctic methane. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.13.638097

*Price, Lucas E; Winter, Jonathan M; Cantoni, Jamie L; Cozens, Duncan W; Linske, Megan A; Williams, Scott C; Dill, Griffin M; Gardner, Allison M; Elias, Susan P; Rounsville, Thomas F; Smith, Robert P; Palace, Michael W; Herrick, Christina; Prusinski, Melissa A; Casey, Patti; Doncaster, Eliza M; Savage, Joseph D T; Wallace, Dorothy I; Shi, Xun DOI: 10.1186/s13071-024-06625-7

*Price LE, Winter JM, Cantoni JL, Cozens DW, Linske MA, Williams SC, Dill GM, Gardner AM, Elias SP, Rounsville TF Jr, Smith RP Jr, Palace MW, Herrick C, Prusinski MA, Casey P, Doncaster EM, Savage JDT, Wallace DI, Shi X. Correction: Spatial and temporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis and tick-borne pathogens across the northeastern United States. Parasit Vectors. 2025 Feb 21;18(1):65. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06625-7. Erratum for: Parasit Vectors. 2024 Nov 22;17(1):481. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06518-9. PMID: 39984988; PMCID: PMC11846361.

*Kuhn, M. A., Varner, R. K., McCalley, C. K., Perryman, C. R., Aurela, M., Burke, S.A., Jeffrey P Chanton, Patrick M Crill, Jessica DelGreco, Jia Deng, Liam Heffernan, Christina Herrick, Suzanne B Hodgkins, Cheristy P Jones, Sari Juutinen, Evan S Kane, Louis J Lamit, Tuula Larmola, Erik Lilleskov, David Olefeldt, Michael W Palace, Virginia I Rich, Christopher Schulze, Joanne H Shorter, Franklin B Sullivan, Oliver Sonnentag, Merritt R Turetsky, Mark P Waldrop (2024). Controls on stable methane isotope values in northern peatlands and potential shifts in values under permafrost thaw scenarios. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129, e2023JG007837. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007837

*Witteveen, N., H; Blaus, A., Raczka, MF., Herrick, C., Palace, M; Nascimento, MN., Van Loon, EE., Gosing, WD., Bush, MB., McMichael, C. (2024). Quantifying local-scale  changes in  Amazonian  forest cover  using  phytoliths. DOI: 10.21425/F5FBG62254
Frontiers of biogeography, Vol.16(1)

*Beltran-Pedraza, J., M. B. Toledo, M. Palace, J. Dibb, and M. B. Bush (2024), Holocene histories of biome stability in northern Amazonian savannas, The Holocene, 34 (3), 283-296. doi.org/10.1177/09596836231211878

Sullivan, Franklin B., Adam G. Hunsaker, Michael W. Palace, and Jennifer M. Jacobs (2023). Evaluating the Effects of UAS Flight Speed on Lidar Snow Depth Estimation in a Heterogeneous Landscape.Remote Sensing 15, no. 21: 5091. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15215091 

*Blaus, A., McMichael, C. N. H., Raczka, M. F., Herrick, C., Palace, M., Witteveen, N., Nascimento, M. N., & Bush, M. B. (2023). Amazonian pollen assemblages reflect biogeographic gradients and forest cover. Journal of Biogeography, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14701

*Proulx, H., Jacobs, J. M., Burakowski, E. A., Cho, E., Hunsaker, A. G., Sullivan, F. B., Palace, M., and Wagner, C. (2023). Brief communication: Comparison of in-situ ephemeral snow depth measurements over a mixed-use temperate forest landscape, The Cryosphere, 17 (8), 3435-3442. doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3435-2023, 2023

*Kelly, D.R., Clark. M.M., Palace, M., and Howey, M.C.L. (2023). Expanding omnidirectional geospatial modeling for archaeology: A case study of dispersal in a “New England” colonial frontier (ca. 1600–1750). Journal of Archaeological Science, 150. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2022.105710

Herrick, C., Steele, B. G., Brentrup, J. A., Cottingham, K. L., Ducey, M. J., Lutz, D. A., Palace, M. W., Thompson, M. C., Trout-Haney, J. V., and Weathers, K. C. (2023). lakeCoSTR: A Tool to Facilitate Use of Landsat Collection 2 to Estimate Lake Surface Water Temperatures. Ecosphere 14(1): e4357. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4357

Varner Ruth K., Crill Patrick M., Frolking Steve, McCalley Carmody K., Burke Sophia A., Canton Jeffrey P., Holmes M. Elizabeth, Isogenie Project Coordinators, Saleska Scott and Palace Michael W. (2022). Permafrost thaw driven changes in hydrology and vegetation cover increase trace gas emissions and climate forcing in Stordalen Mire from 1970 to 2014.  Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.3802021002220210022. doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0022

Panzou,  Grace Jopaul Loubota ,Adeline Fayolle,  Tommaso Jucker,  Oliver L. Phillips,  Stephanie Bohlman,  Lindsay F. Banin,  Simon L. Lewis,  Kofi Affum-Baffoe,  Luciana F. Alves,  Cécile Antin, Eric Arets,  Luzmila Arroyo,  Timothy R. Baker,  Nicolas Barbier,  Hans Beeckman,  Uta Berger, Yannick Enock Bocko,  Frans Bongers,  Sam Bowers,  Thom Brade, Eduardo S. Brondizio,  Arthur Chantrain,  Jerome Chave,  Halidou Compaore,  David Coomes, Adama Diallo,  Arildo S. Dias,  Kangbéni Dimobe,  Gloria Djaney Djagbletey,  Tomas Domingues,  Jean-Louis Doucet,  Thomas Drouet,  Eric Forni, John L. Godlee,  Rosa C. Goodman,  Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury,  Fidele Hien, Yoshiko Iida,  Bhely Angoboy Ilondea,  Jonathan Ilunga Muledi,  Pierre Jacques,  Shem Kuyah, Jorge López-Portillo,  Jean Joël Loumeto,  Ben Hur Marimon-Junior,  Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,  Sylvanus Mensah,  Edward T. A. Mitchard,  Glenn R. Moncrieff,  Ayyappan Narayanan,  Sean T. O’Brien,  Korotimi Ouedraogo,  Michael W. Palace,  Raphael Pelissier,  Pierre Ploton,  Lourens Poorter,  Casey M. Ryan,  Gustavo Saiz, Karin dos Santos,  Michael Schlund,  Giacomo Sellan,  Bonaventure Sonke,  Frank Sterck, Quentin Thibaut,  Yorick Van Hoef,  Elmar Veenendaal,  Alejandra G. Vovides,  Yaozhan Xu, Tze Leong Yao,  Ted R. Feldpausch, (2020). Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(2), 459-475. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13231.

Salerno, J., Bailey, K., Diem, J., Konecky, B., Bridges, R., Namusisi, S., Bitariho, R., Palace, M., & Hartter, J. (2022). Smallholder Knowledge of Local Climate Conditions Predicts Positive On-Farm Outcomes, Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(3), 671-680. doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0131.1

*Cho, E. A. G. Hunsaker, J. M. Jacobs, M. Palace, F. B. Sullivan, E. A. Burakowski (2021). Maximum entropy modeling to identify physical drivers of shallow snowpack heterogeneity using unpiloted aerial system (UAS) lidar. Journal of Hydrology, 602 (126722). doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126722

Diem, J.E., J. Salerno, M.W. Palace, K. Bailey, J. Hartter. (2021). Teleconnections between rainfall in equatorial Africa and tropical sea-surface temperatures: a focus on western Uganda. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 60, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0057.1

*Rubin H.J., D.A. Lutz, J.W. Chipman, B. Steele, K. Weathers, K. Cottingham, K.M. Johnson, M. Palace, M.J. Ducey (2021).  Remote Sensing of Lake Water Clarity: Assessing the Performance of Machine Learning Methods and the Transferability of Models. Remote Sensing 13 (8), 1434.

Mo, Weiwei, Shannon Stang, Masoumeh Khalkhali, Marek Petrik, Michael Palace, Zhongming Lu (2021). Spatially Optimized Distribution of Household Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Recycling Systems, Journal of Cleaner Production.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127736

Jacobs, J. M., Hunsaker, A. G., Sullivan, F. B., Palace, M., Burakowski, E. A., Herrick, C., and Cho, E. (2021). Shallow snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial systems lidar observations: A case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, The Cryosphere 15 (3), 1485-1500.

*Boag, A.E., M.J. Ducey, M.W. Palace, J. Hartter (2020). Topography and fire legacies drive variable post-fire juvenile conifer regeneration in eastern Oregon, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 474. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118312.

*Bolduc B, Hodgkins SB, Varner RK, Crill PM, McCalley CK, Chanton JP, Tyson GW, Riley WJ, Palace M, Duhaime MB, Hough MA, IsoGenie Project Coordinators, IsoGenie Project Team, A2A Project Team, Saleska SR, Sullivan MB, Rich VI. (2020). The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research. PeerJ 8:e9467 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9467

*Hastings, J.H., Ollinger, S.V., Ouimette, A.P., Sanders-DeMott, R., Palace, M.W., Ducey, M.J., Sullivan, F.B., Basler, D., Orwig, D.A. (2020) Tree Species Traits Determine the Success of LiDAR-Based Crown Mapping in a Mixed Temperate Forest. Remote Sensing, 12, 309. doi: 10.3390/rs12020309.

Howey, MCL, FB Sullivan, MB Burg, MW Palace (2020), Remotely Sensed Big Data and Iterative Approaches to Cultural Feature Detection and Past Landscape Process Analysis. Journal of Field Archaeology 45 (sup1), S27-S38

Kiage LM, Howey M, Hartter J, and M Palace. (2020). A late Holocene record of human impacts on tropical environments from non-pollen palynomorphs, Albertine Rift, western Uganda. Quaternary Research 93 (1), 172-186

Hartter, J., Hamilton, L. C., Ducey, M. J., Boag, A. E., Salerno, J. D., Christoffersen, N. D., Oester, P.T., Palace, M.W., Stevens, F. R. (2020). Finding common ground: Agreement on increasing wildfire risks crosses political lines. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7ace

*Burke SA, Wik M, Lang A, Contosta AR, Palace MW, Crill PM and RK Varner (2019). Long‐Term Measurements of Methane Ebullition From Thaw Ponds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 124 (7), 2208-222. 

Diem, JE, HS Sung, BL Konecky, MW Palace, J Salerno, J Hartter. (2019). Rainfall Characteristics and Trends—and the Role of Congo Westerlies—in the Western Uganda Transition Zone of Equatorial Africa from 1983 to 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (20), 10712-10729

Palace, M., C. Herrick, J. DelGreco, D. Finnell, A. Garnello, C. McCalley, K. McArthur, F. Sullivan, R. Varner. (2018). Determining Subarctic Peatland Vegetation Using an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Remote Sensing, 10(9), 1498. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10091498

Melendy, L., S.C. Hagen, F.B. Sullivan, T.R.H. Pearson, S.M. Walker, P. Ellis, Kustiyo, Ari Katmoko Sambodo, O. Roswintiarti, M.A. Hanson, A.W. Klassen, M.W. Palace, B.H. Braswell, G.M. Delgado. (2018). Automated method for measuring the extent of selective logging damage with airborne LiDAR data. Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 139, 228-240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.02.022. 

Hartter, J., LC Hamilton, AE Boag, FR Stevens, MJ Ducey, ND Christoffersen, PT Oester, MW Palace (2018). Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused? Climate Services, 10, 53-62

*Dowhaniuk, N., J. Hartter, S.J. Ryan, M.W. Palace, R.G. Congalton (2018). The Impact of Industrial Oil Development on a Protected Area Landscape: Demographic Change and Corporate Social Responsibility at Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda. Population and Environment. 39(3), 197-218.

*Boag, A, J Hartter, L Hamilton, N Christoffersen, F Stevens, M Palace, M Ducey. (2018). Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity. Ecology and Society 23 (4).

*Salerno, J., Chapman, C.A., Diem, J.E., Dowhaniuk, N. Goldman, A., MacKenzie, C. A., Omeja, P.A., Palace, M.W., Reyna-Hurtado, R., Ryan, S.J., Hartter, J. (2018). Park isolation in anthropogenic landscapes: land change and livelihoods at park boundaries in the African Albertine Rift. Regional Environmental Change, 18(3), 913-928. doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1250-1

Palace MW, C. N. H. McMichael, B. Braswell, S. Hagen, M. Bush, E. Neves, E. Tamanaha, C. Herrick, S. Frolking (2017).  Ancient Amazonian populations left lasting impacts on forest structure. Ecosphere, 8(12), e02035, doi:10.1002/ecs2.2035

Sullivan, F, M. Ducey, B. Cook, D. Orwig, M. Palace (2017). Comparison of lidar- and allometry-derived canopy height models in an Eastern deciduous forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 406, 83-94.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.005

*Boag, AE, J Hartter, LC Hamilton, FR Stevens, MJ Ducey, MW Palace, NChistoffersen, and PT Oester. (2017). Shifting environmental concern in rural eastern Oregon: The role of demographic, place-based, and exogenous factors. Population and Environment, 2017, 38: 207-216.

*Algeo TP, Slate D, Caron RM, Atwood T, Recuenco S, Ducey M, Chipman RB, Palace M, (2017). Modeling raccoon (Procyon lotor) habitat connectivity to identify potential corridors for rabies spread. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2 (3), 44

Frolking S, S Hagen, B Braswell, T Milliman, C Herrick, S Peterson, D Roberts, Michael K, M Palace. (2017). Evaluating multiple causes of persistent low microwave backscatter from Amazon forests after the 2005 drought. PloS one 12 (9), e0183308

Kiage, L. M. Howey, J. Hartter, M. Palace (2017). Paleoenvironmental change in tropical Africa during the Holocene based on a record from Lake Kifuruka, western Uganda. Journal of Quaternary Science, doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2986

Hartter, J., Lawrence C. Hamilton, Angela E. Boag, Forrest R. Stevens, Mark J. Ducey, Nils D. Christoffersen, Paul T. Oester, Michael W. Palace (2017). Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused? Climate Services. doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.014

Hill, Michael, Qiang Zhou, Qingsong Sun, Crystal B. Schaaf and Michael Palace (2017). Relationships between Vegetation Indices, Fractional Cover Retrievals and the Structure and Composition of Brazilian Cerrado Natural Vegetation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38(3), 874-905.

Ryan, S. J., Palace, M.W., Hartter, J., Diem, J.E., Chapman, C.A., Southworth, J. (2017). Population pressure and global markets drive deforestation in Africa’s Albertine Rift. Applied Geography, 81, 52-59.

*Boag, Angela E., Joel Hartter, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Forrest R. Stevens, Mark J. Ducey, Michael W. Palace, Nils Chistoffersen, and Paul T. Oester. (2017). Shifting environmental concern in rural eastern Oregon: The role of demographic, place-based, and exogenous factors. Population and Environment, 38: 207-216.

Howey MCL, Sullivan FB, Tallant J, Kopple RV, Palace MW (2016). Detecting Precontact Anthropogenic Microtopographic Features in a Forested Landscape with Lidar: A Case Study from the Upper Great Lakes Region, AD 1000-1600. PLoS ONE, 11(9): e0162062. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162062 

Palace, M. W., Sullivan, F. B., Ducey, M. J., Herrick, C. (2016). Estimating Tropical Forest Structure Using a Terrestrial Lidar. PloS ONE, 11(4), e0154115.

Howey, M.C.L., Palace, M., and C. McMichael (2016). Geospatial Modeling Approach to Monument Construction Using Michigan from AD 1000-1600 as a Case Study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 113(27): 7443-7448, 2016. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603450113.

*Amaral, K. E., Palace, M. W., O’Brien, K. M., Fenderson, L. E., Kovach, A. I. (2016). Anthropogenic Habitats Facilitate Dispersal of an Early Successional Obligate: Implications for Restoration of an Endangered Ecosystem. PloS ONE, 11(3), e0148842.

Morton, D. C., Nagol, J., Carabajal, C. C., Rosette, J., Palace, M. W., Cook, B. D., Vermote, E. F., Harding, D. J., North, P. R. (2016). Morton et al. reply. Nature, 531(7594), E6–E6., 

Hartter, J. N., Dowhaniuk, N., MacKenzie, C. A., Ryan, S. J., Diem, J. E., Palace, M. W., Chapman, C. A. (2016). Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot. Ambio, 45, 692-705. doi: 10.1007/s13280-016-0775-8.

Bustamante, Mercedes MC, Roitman, I., Aide, T., Alencar, A., Anderson, L., Aragão, L.E., Asner, G., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Chambers, J.Q., Costa, M.,Fanin, T., Ferreira, L., Ferreira, J., Keller, M., Magnusson, W., Morales, L., Morton, D., Ometto, J.P., Palace, M., Peres, C., Silvério, D., Trumbore, S., Vieira, I.C. (2016). Towards an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13087

Hamilton, L. C., Hartter, J. N., Keim, B. D., Boag, A. E., Palace, M. W., Stevens, F. R., Ducey, M. J. (2016). Wildfire, climate, and perceptions in Northeast Oregon. Regional Environmental Change, 1–14. DOI 10.1007/s10113-015-0914-y.

Palace M, FB Sullivan, MJ Ducey, C Czarnecki, J Zanin Shimbo, Jonas Mota e Silva (2015). Estimating forest structure in a tropical forest using field measurements, a synthetic model and discrete return lidar data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 161, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.020.

Bush, Mark, Crystal McMichael, Dolores Piperno, Miles Silman, Jos Barlow, Carlos Peres, Mitchell Power, Michael Palace (2015). Anthropogenic influence on Amazonia forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12638

*Pellissier, P., S. Ollinger, L. Lepine, M. Palace, W. McDowell (2015). Remote sensing of foliar nitrogen in cultivated grasslands of human dominated landscapes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 167, 88-97. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.06.009

Treuhaft, R., Gonçalves, F., Roberto dos Santos, J., Keller, M., Palace, M., Madsen, S., Sullivan, F., Graça, P. (2015). Tropical-Forest Biomass Estimation at X-Band from the Spaceborne TanDEM-X Interferometer. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12, 239-243.

Hartter, J., Sadie Ryan, Michael Palace, Abe Goldman, Nicholas Dowhaniuk, Jeremy Diem, Colin A. Chapman (2015). Now there is no land: a story of ethnic migration in a protected area landscape in western Uganda. Population and Environment. doi: 10.1007/s11111-014-022.

Morton, D.C. J. R. Nagol, J.Rosette, C. C. Carabajal, D. J. Harding, M.W. Palace, B. D. Cook, P. R. North, (2014). Apparent Seasonal Green up of Amazon Forests, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13006.

*McMichael, C., M. Palace, M.B. Bush, B. Braswell, S.C. Hagen, M. Silman, C. Czarnecki, E. Neves, (2014). Terra preta distribution in Amazonia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2475.

Howey, M., Palace, M., McMichael, C.H., Braswell, B. (2014). Moderate-resolution remote sensing and geospatial analyses of microclimates, mounds, and maize in the northern Great Lakes. Advances in Archaeological Practice, doi 10.7183/2326-3768.2.3.195.

Sullivan, FB, Palace M, MJ Ducey. (2014). Multivariate statistical analysis of asynchronous lidar data and vegetation models in a neotropical forest. Remote Sensing of Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.027

*Espírito-Santo, F. D. B., M. Gloor, M. Keller, Y. Malhi, S. Saatchi, B. Nelson, R. C. Oliveira Junior, C. Pereira, Y. E. Shimabukuro, V. Duarte, S. Frolking, M. Palace, J. Lloyd, A. Monteagudo, G. López-González, T. R. Baker, T. R. Feldpausch, R. Brienen, and O. L. Phillips (2014). Size and Frequency of Natural Forest Disturbances in Amazonia. Nature: Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms4434.

*Couto de Miranda, Sabrina Joice Ferreira, Mercedes Bustamante,  Michael Palace, Michael Keller, Steve Hagen, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira (2014).  Regional Variations in Biomass Distribution in Brazilian Savanna Woodland, Biotropica. 46, 125-138. doi:10.1111/btp.12095

Diem, J.E., S.J. Ryan, J. Hartter, and M.W. Palace (2014). Satellite-based rainfall data reveal a recent drying trend in central equatorial Africa. Climatic Change, 26, 263-272

Diem, J.E., J. Hartter, S.J. Ryan, and M.W. Palace (2014). Validation of satellite rainfall products for western Uganda. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 2030-2038. 

*McMichael, C.H., Palace, M., Golightly, M., (2014). Associations between geoglyph formation and bamboo-dominated forests in western Amazonian forests, Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/jbi.12325

*Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., Niccum, B.A., De la Rosa, P., McMichael, C., Hagen, S., Palace, M. (2013). Western Amazonia: Holocene histories of extreme events, fire and ecotonal stability. Journal of Biogeography.  doi: 10.1111/jbi.12016

Palace, M., M. Keller, S. Frolking, H. Hurtt (2012). A review of above ground necromass in tropical forests.  In Tropical Forests.  Editors Dr. Padmini Sudarshana, Dr. Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao, and Dr. Jaya R. Soneji, ISBN 978-953-307-954-7.

*McMichael C.H., M B. Bush, M.R. Silman, D.R. Piperno, M. Raczka, L.C. Lobato, M. Zimmerman, S. Hagen and M. Palace (2012). Historical fire and bamboo dynamics in western Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography.  doi: 10.1111/jbi.12002

Frolking, S., S. Hagen, T. Milliman, M. Palace, J.Z. Shimbo, M. Fahnestock.(2012). Estimating deforestation rates of pan-tropical humid forests 2000-2009 with the SeaWinds Ku-bandscatterometer. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50: 2603-2617, doi:  10.1109/TGRS.2011.2182516.

Frolking, S., T. Milliman, M. Palace, D. Wisser, R. Lammers, Mark Fahnestock (2011). SeaWinds microwave scatterometer detects 2005 Amazonian forest drought. Remote Sensing and Environment 115: 897-907. 

Feldpausch, T, Lloyd J, Phillips, OL, Baker, TR, Palace, M, et al. (51 co-authors) (2010). Height-diameter allometry of tropical trees. Biogeosciences 7: 7727-7793.

Gonzalez, P., G.P. Asner, J.J. Battles, M.A. Lefsky, K.M. Waring, M. Palace (2010). Forest carbon densities and uncertainties from Lidar, QuickBird, and field inventories in California. Remote Sensing of Environment 114: 1561-1575.

Frolking, S., M. Palace, D.B. Clark, J.Q. Chambers, H.H. Shugart, G.C. Hurtt, (2009). Forest disturbance and recovery - a general review in the context of space-borne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure. J. Geophys. Res., 114, G00E02, doi:10.1029/2008JG000911.

Palace, M., M. Keller, G.P. Asner, S. Hagen, B. Braswell, (2008a). Amazon forest structure from IKONOS satellite data and the automated characterization of forest canopy properties. Biotropica, 40(20): 141-150.

Palace, M., M. Keller, H. Silva, (2008b). Necromass production: studies in undisturbed and logged Amazon forests. Ecological Applications: 18, 873–884.

*Broadbent, E.N., G.P. Asner, M. Peña-Claros, M. Palace, M. Soriano, (2008).  Spatial partitioning of biomass and diversity in a lowland Bolivian forest: linking field and remote sensing measurements. Forest Ecology and Management, 255, 2602-2616.

Chambers, J.Q., G.P. Asner, D.C. Morton, L.O. Anderson, S.S. Saatchi, F.D.B Espírito-Santo, M. Palace, C. Souza, (2007). Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.05.001.

Palace, M., M. Keller, G.P. Asner, J.N.M. Silva, C. Passos, (2007). Necromass in undisturbed and logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management, 238, 309-318.

*Rice, A. H., E. H. Pyle, S. R. Saleska, L. Hutyra, P. B. Camargo, K. Portilho, D. F. Marques, M. Palace, M. Keller, and S. C. Wofsy, (2004). Carbon balance and vegetation dynamics in an old-growth Amazonian forest, Ecological Applications, 14(4):s55-s71.

Keller, M., M. Palace, G.P. Asner, R. Pereira Jr., and J.N.M. da Silva, (2004a). Coarse woody debris in undisturbed and logged forests in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, Global Change Biology 10:5.

Keller, M., G. P. Asner, J.M.N. Silva, and M. Palace, (2004b). Sustainability of Selective Logging of Upland Forests in the Brazilian Amazon:  Carbon Budgets and Remote Sensing as Tools for Evaluation of Logging Effects.in Eds: D.J. Zarin, J. Alavalapati, F.E. Putz, M. Schmink Working Forests in the American Tropics: Conservation Through Sustainable Management? Publisher, Colombia University Press. New York.

Hurtt, G., X. Xiao, M. Keller, M. Palace, G. P. Asner, R. Braswell, E.S. Brondizio, Manoel Cardoso, C. J.R. Carvalho, M.G. Fearon, L. Guild, S. Hagen, T. Sá, A. Schloss, G. Vourlitis, A. J. Wickel, B. Moore III, and C. Nobre, (2003). IKONOS Imagery for the large scale biosphere atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA).  Remote Sensing of the Environment, 88:  111-127.

Asner, G., M. Palace, M. Keller, M., Pereira, J. Silva, J. Zweede, (2002). Estimating canopy structure in an Amazon forest from laser rangefinder and IKONOS satellite observations. Biotropica 34(4):  483-492.

Keller, M., M. Palace and G. Hurtt, (2001). Biomass in the Tapajos National Forest, Brazil: examination of sampling and allometric uncertainties, Forest Ecology and Management, 154, 371-382.

Reports

Ducey Mark, Michael Palace, Franklin Sullivan, Ethan Blair, Joel Hartter, Paul T. Oester (2018). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones): How they operate and their potential for improving your forest and rangeland management. OSU Extension Catalog. https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9190

Joel Hartter, Lawrence Hamilton, Mark Ducey, Angela Boag, Nils Chistoffersen, Ethan Belair, Paul Oester, Michael Palace, Forrest Stevens (2017). Drier Conditions, More Wildfire, and Heightened Concerns About Forest Management in Eastern Oregon.  Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

Boag, Angela E., Joel Hartter, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Forrest R. Stevens, Mark J. Ducey, Michael W. Palace, Nils Chistoffersen, and Paul T. Oester. (2015) Forest Views Shifting Attitudes Toward the Environment in Northeast Oregon. Carsey Research, National Issue Brief #81, Spring 2015

Archived Datasets

Palace, Michael, and Herrick, Christina. "Stordalen Mire habitat classifications map (2014)". https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15042233. https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10591409.

Palace, Michael, and DelGreco, Jessica. "Stordalen Mire mire-wide survey: Vegetation cover". https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15048198. https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10591417.

Palace, Michael, Herrick, Christina, Torbick, Nathan, Deng, Jia, Ziniti, Beth, Salas, Bill, Campbell, Eleanor, Fisk, Justin, Persson, Andreas, McCalley, Carmody, Saleska, Scott, Crill, Patrick, and Varner, Ruth. "Stordalen Mire estimated methane emissions maps (2014)". https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15042320. https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10591410. 

Palace, Michael; Herrick, Christina; Sullivan, Franklin, 2025, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2018", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2JXWVW, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Palace, Michael; Herrick, Christina; Sullivan, Franklin; Varner, Ruth, 2025, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2022", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/G9Y8WC, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Palace, Michael; Herrick, Christina; Varner, Ruth; Sullivan, Franklin, 2025, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2019", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HXC8HK, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Burke, Sophia; Palace, Michael; Herrick, Christina; Sullivan, Franklin; Varner, Ruth, 2025, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2021", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QR7LMC, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Palace, Michael; Herrick, Christina; Sullivan, Franklin; Sears, Helen; Varner, Ruth, 2025, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2023", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LMKIMT, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Sullivan, Franklin B.; Palace, Michael W.; Ouimette, Andrew P.; Hastings, Jack; Herrick, Christina; Ollinger, Scott, 2023, "Hyperspectral Surface Directional Reflectance Flight Line Mosaics of Prospect Hill Tract Megaplot Acquired by Unpiloted Aerial System, 2019", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5GQHCM, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Sullivan, Franklin B.; Palace, Michael W.; Ouimette, Andrew P.; Hastings, Jack; Herrick, Christina; Ollinger, Scott, 2023, "Leaf-On LiDAR Point Cloud of Thompson Farm Flux Tower Footprint Acquired by Unpiloted Aerial System, 2022", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MD7XAQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Sullivan, Franklin B.; Palace, Michael W.; Ouimette, Andrew P.; Hastings, Jack; Herrick, Christina; Ollinger, Scott, 2023, "Leaf-Off LiDAR Point Cloud of Thompson Farm Flux Tower Footprint Acquired by Unpiloted Aerial System, 2022", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FFPF7J, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Sullivan, Franklin B.; Palace, Michael W.; Ouimette, Andrew P.; Hastings, Jack; Herrick, Christina; Ollinger, Scott, 2023, "Hyperspectral Surface Directional Reflectance Flight Line Mosaics of Thompson Farm Flux Tower Footprint Acquired by Unpiloted Aerial System, 2021", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UKWLZP, Harvard Dataverse, V1

DelGreco, Jessica; Palace, Michael W; Herrick, Christina; Varner, Ruth K, 2022, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2017", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NZWLHE, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Palace, Michael W; DelGreco, Jessica; McArthur, Kellen; Herrick, Christina; Varner, Ruth K, 2022, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2015", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NUXE30, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Palace, Michael W; Herrick, Christina; Varner, Ruth K, 2022, "Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2016", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IAXSRD, Harvard Dataverse, V1 

Palace, M, C Herrick, J DelGreco, R Varner, D Finnell, AJ Garnell (2019). Unmanned Aerial Imagery over Stordalen Mire, Northern Sweden, 2014. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SJKV4T

 Melendy, L, S Hagen, FB Sullivan, T Pearson, SM Walker, P Ellis, KA Kustiyo, O Roswintiarti Sambodo, M Hanson, AW Klassen, MW Palace, BH Braswell, GM Delgado, SS Saatchi, A Ferraz (2017). CMS: LiDAR Data for Forested Sites on Borneo Island, Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2014. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Melendy, L, S Hagen, FB Sullivan, T Pearson, SM Walker, P Ellis, KA Kustiyo, O Roswintiarti Sambodo, M Hanson, AW Klassen, MW Palace, BH Braswell, GM Delgado, SS Saatchi, A Ferraz. (2017). CMS: LiDAR-derived Canopy Height, Elevation for Sites in Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2014. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Sullivan F, Ducey M, Palace M. 2020. Crown Geometry Measurements of 14 Species in the CTFS-ForestGEO Plot at Harvard Forest 2013. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF339 (v.2). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9607436bd267581e844fee6ea3f171c9.

Asner, G.P., M.W. Palace, M.M. Keller, M. Pereira, J. Silva, and J.C. Zweede. (2012). LBA-ECO TG-07 Tree Geometry in an Undisturbed Forest in Cauaxi, Para, Brazil. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1063

Keller, M.M., and M.W. Palace. (2011). LBA-ECO TG-07 Fallen and Standing Necromass, Tapajos, Cauaxi, Juruena Forests, Brazil. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/998

Keller, M.M., and M.W. Palace. (2009). LBA-ECO TG-07 Ground-based Biometry Data at km 83 Site, Tapajos National Forest: 1997. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/923

Rice, A.H., E.P. Hammond, S.R. Saleska, L.R. Hutyra, M.W. Palace, M.M. Keller, P.B. de Camargo, K. Portilho, D. Marques, and S.C. Wofsy. (2007). LBA-ECO CD-10 Forest Litter Data for km 67 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/862

Rice, A.H., E.P. Hammond, S.R. Saleska, L.R. Hutyra, M.W. Palace, M.M. Keller, P.B. de Camargo, K. Portilho, D. Marques, and S.C. Wofsy. (2007). LBA-ECO CD-10 Ground-based Biometry Data at km 67 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/854

Government Documents

Palace, Michael W., Franklin Sullivan, Adam Hunsaker, McKenzie Skiles, and Jennifer M. Jacobs (2023). Development of Acquisition and Processing Workflows for UAV-based Snow Remote Sensing. Technical Brief for Goal I. Focus Area I.1. Task A of Project W913E5-21-C-0006

Palace, M.W., J.E. Hannawald, L.C. Linker, G.W. Shenk, J.M. Storrick, and M.L. Clipper. 1998. Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model Application and Calculation of Nutrient and Sediment Loadings. Appendix H: Tracking Best Management Practice Nutrient Reductions in the Chesapeake Bay Program. EPA 903-R-98-009, CBP/TRS 201/98.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD.

Palace, M.W. Principal Author, Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model, Appendix I: Phase IV Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model - Operations Manual, Fall 1998.