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Bruce K. Wylie is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States.

They have contributed to research primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers key topics such as:

  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Bruce K. Wylie has co-authored multiple papers with a number of frequent collaborators, including Neal J. Pastick, Devendra Dahal, Stephen P. Boyte, Sujan Parajuli, and Zhuoting Wu.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Characterizing Land Surface Phenology and Exotic Annual Grasses in Dryland Ecosystems Using Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data in Harmony, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Rapid Monitoring of the Abundance and Spread of Exotic Annual Grasses in the Western United States Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Monitoring Climate Impacts on Annual Forage Production across U.S. Semi-Arid Grasslands, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Rapid and Gradual Permafrost Thaw: A Tale of Two Sites, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Departures of Rangeland Fractional Component Cover and Land Cover from Landsat-Based Ecological Potential in Wyoming, USA, 2020, Rangeland Ecology & Management

Their research has been published in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • AGU Advances
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Ecosphere

Best Publications

  • Development of a 2001 National land-cover database for the United States

    Collin G. Homer;Chengquan Huang;Limin Yang;Bruce K. Wylie

  • Analysis of Dynamic Thresholds for the Normalized Difference Water Index

    Lei Ji;Li Zhang;Bruce K. Wylie

  • Derivation of a tasselled cap transformation based on Landsat 7 at-satellite reflectance

    Chengquan Huang;Bruce K. Wylie;Limin Yang;Collin G. Homer

  • An approach for mapping large-area impervious surfaces: synergistic use of Landsat-7 ETM+ and high spatial resolution imagery

    Limin Yang;Chengquan Huang;Collin G Homer;Bruce K Wylie

  • NDVI, C3 AND C4 PRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTIONS IN GREAT PLAINS GRASSLAND LAND COVER CLASSES

    Larry L. Tieszen;I Bradley C. Reed;Norman B. Bliss;Bruce K. Wylie

  • An analysis of relationships among climate forcing and time-integrated NDVI of grasslands over the U.S. northern and central Great Plains

    Limin Yang;Bruce K. Wylie;Larry L. Tieszen;Bradley C. Reed

  • NDVI saturation adjustment: A new approach for improving cropland performance estimates in the Greater Platte River Basin, USA

    Yingxin Gu;Bruce K. Wylie;Daniel M. Howard;Khem P. Phuyal

  • Distribution of near-surface permafrost in Alaska: Estimates of present and future conditions

    Neal J. Pastick;M. Torre Jorgenson;Bruce K. Wylie;Shawn J. Nield

  • Integration of CO 2 flux and remotely- sensed data for primary production and ecosystem respiration analyses in the Northern Great Plains: potential for quantitative spatial extrapolation

    Tagir G. Gilmanov;Larry L. Tieszen;Bruce K. Wylie;Lawrence B. Flanagan

  • Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost

    Burke J. Minsley;Jared D. Abraham;Bruce D. Smith;James C. Cannia

  • Satellite mapping of surface biophysical parameters at the biome scale over the North American grasslands a case study

    B.K Wylie;D.J Meyer;L.L Tieszen;S Mannel

  • Calibration of remotely sensed, coarse resolution NDVI to CO2 fluxes in a sagebrush–steppe ecosystem

    Bruce K. Wylie;Douglas A. Johnson;Emilio Laca;Nicanor Z. Saliendra

  • A STRATEGY FOR ESTIMATING TREE CANOPY DENSITY USING LANDSAT 7 ETM+ AND HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES OVER LARGE AREAS

    Chengquan Huang;Limin Yang;Bruce Wylie;Collin Homer

  • On the terminology of the spectral vegetation index (NIR − SWIR)/(NIR + SWIR)

    Lel Ji;Li Zhang;Bruce K. Wylie;Jennifer R. Rover

  • The interacting roles of climate, soils, and plant production on soil microbial communities at a continental scale

    Mark P. Waldrop;JoAnn M. Holloway;David B. Smith;Martin B. Goldhaber

  • Upscaling carbon fluxes over the Great Plains grasslands: Sinks and sources

    Li Zhang;Li Zhang;Bruce K. Wylie;Lei Ji;Tagir G. Gilmanov

  • Satellite and ground-based pasture production assessment in Niger: 1986-1988

    B. K. Wylie;J. A. Harrington;S. D. Prince;I. Denda

  • Estimating aboveground biomass in interior Alaska with Landsat data and field measurements

    Lei Ji;Bruce K. Wylie;Dana R. Nossov;Birgit E. Peterson

  • Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska.

    Neal J. Pastick;Neal J. Pastick;M. Torre Jorgenson;Scott J. Goetz;Benjamin M. Jones

  • Adaptive data-driven models for estimating carbon fluxes in the Northern Great Plains

    Bruce K. Wylie;Eugene A. Fosnight;Tagir G. Gilmanov;Albert B. Frank

  • Climate-Driven Interannual Variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange in the Northern Great Plains Grasslands

    Liping Zhang;Bruce K. Wylie;Lei Ji;Tagir G. Gilmanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry L. Tieszen
Larry L. Tieszen United States Geological Survey
Michelle Ann Walvoord
Michelle Ann Walvoord United States Geological Survey
Tilden P. Meyers
Tilden P. Meyers National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Chengquan Huang
Chengquan Huang University of Maryland, College Park
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
T. Scott Rupp
T. Scott Rupp University of Alaska Fairbanks
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jack A. Morgan
Jack A. Morgan Agricultural Research Service
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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