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Overview

Carl J. Legleiter is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on hydrology, sediment transport processes, and remote sensing applications.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and nature and landscape conservation. Their main topics of research cover hydrology and sediment transport processes, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, fish ecology and management studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Carl J. Legleiter has published numerous papers in various scientific journals. Among the recent papers are the following:

  • Spectral mixture analysis for surveillance of harmful algal blooms (SMASH): A field-, laboratory-, and satellite-based approach to identifying cyanobacteria genera from remotely sensed data, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Inferring Surface Flow Velocities in Sediment-Laden Alaskan Rivers from Optical Image Sequences Acquired from a Helicopter, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The optical river bathymetry toolkit, 2021, River Research and Applications
  • Surface Flow Velocities From Space: Particle Image Velocimetry of Satellite Video of a Large, Sediment-Laden River, 2021, Frontiers in Water

Frequent co-authors working alongside Carl J. Legleiter include:

  • Paul J. Kinzel
  • Lee R. Harrison
  • B. T. Overstreet
  • Milad Niroumand-Jadidi
  • Francesca Bovolo

The scientist's work has appeared notably in the following publication venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Water Resources Research
  • River Research and Applications
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Carl J. Legleiter's research integrates data collected through fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and remote sensing techniques, including satellite and aerial image analysis. Their studies involve advanced methods such as neural networks and particle image velocimetry to estimate river bathymetry and surface flow velocities, particularly in sediment-laden river systems.

Their investigations also address ecological and environmental challenges such as harmful algal blooms, river sediment transport, and flood risk management, providing insights into watershed dynamics and aquatic ecosystem functionality.

Best Publications

  • Sediment supply as a driver of river meandering and floodplain evolution in the Amazon Basin

    Jose Antonio Constantine;Thomas Dunne;Joshua Ahmed;Carl Legleiter

  • Spectrally based remote sensing of river bathymetry

    Carl J. Legleiter;Dar A. Roberts;Rick L. Lawrence

  • High spatial resolution hyperspectral mapping of in-stream habitats, depths, and woody debris in mountain streams

    W.Andrew Marcus;Carl J Legleiter;Richard J Aspinall;Joseph W Boardman

  • Passive optical remote sensing of river channel morphology and in-stream habitat: Physical basis and feasibility

    Carl J. Legleiter;Dar A. Roberts;W. Andrew Marcus;Mark A. Fonstad

  • Efficient meltwater drainage through supraglacial streams and rivers on the southwest Greenland ice sheet.

    Laurence C. Smith;Vena W. Chu;Kang Yang;Colin J. Gleason

  • Remote measurement of river morphology via fusion of LiDAR topography and spectrally based bathymetry

    Carl J. Legleiter

  • Mapping River Bathymetry With a Small Footprint Green LiDAR: Applications and Challenges1

    Paul J. Kinzel;Carl J. Legleiter;Jonathan M. Nelson

  • Forward and Inverse Transformations between Cartesian and Channel-fitted Coordinate Systems for Meandering Rivers

    Carl J. Legleiter;Phaedon C. Kyriakidis

  • Spatial prediction of river channel topography by kriging

    Carl J. Legleiter;Carl J. Legleiter;Phaedon C. Kyriakidis

  • A forward image model for passive optical remote sensing of river bathymetry

    Carl J. Legleiter;Dar A. Roberts

  • Performance Assessment of High Resolution Airborne Full Waveform LiDAR for Shallow River Bathymetry

    Zhigang Pan;Craig Glennie;Preston Hartzell;Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz

  • Effects of uncertain topographic input data on two‐dimensional flow modeling in a gravel‐bed river

    Carl J. Legleiter;Phaedon C. Kyriakidis;Richard R. McDonald;Jonathan M. Nelson

  • Channel dynamics and habitat development in a meandering, gravel bed river

    L. R. Harrison;C. J. Legleiter;M. A. Wydzga;T. Dunne

  • Early Results of Simultaneous Terrain and Shallow Water Bathymetry Mapping Using a Single-Wavelength Airborne LiDAR Sensor

    Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz;Craig L. Glennie;William E. Carter;Ramesh L. Shrestha

  • Fluvial response a decade after wildfire in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem: a spatially explicit analysis

    Carl J Legleiter;Rick L Lawrence;Mark A Fonstad;W Andrew Marcus

  • Remote Sensing of River Bathymetry: Evaluating a Range of Sensors, Platforms, and Algorithms on the Upper Sacramento River, California, USA

    Carl J. Legleiter;Carl J. Legleiter;Lee R. Harrison;Lee R. Harrison

  • Mapping gravel bed river bathymetry from space

    C. J. Legleiter;B. T. Overstreet

  • Effects of channel morphology and sensor spatial resolution on image-derived depth estimates

    Carl J. Legleiter;Dar A. Roberts

  • Alternative Representations of In-Stream Habitat: Classification using Remote Sensing, Hydraulic Modeling, and Fuzzy Logic

    Carl J. Legleiter;Michael F. Goodchild

  • Evaluating the capabilities of the CASI hyperspectral imaging system and Aquarius bathymetric LiDAR for measuring channel morphology in two distinct river environments

    Carl J. Legleiter;Brandon T. Overstreet;Craig L. Glennie;Zhigang Pan

  • Removing sun glint from optical remote sensing images of shallow rivers

    Brandon T. Overstreet;Carl J. Legleiter;Carl J. Legleiter

  • Effect of point bar development on the local force balance governing flow in a simple, meandering gravel bed river

    C. J. Legleiter;L. R. Harrison;T. Dunne

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence C. Smith
Laurence C. Smith Brown University
Jonathan M. Nelson
Jonathan M. Nelson United States Geological Survey
Thomas Dunne
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard R. Forster
Richard R. Forster University of Utah
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Rick L. Lawrence
Rick L. Lawrence Montana State University
Ellen Wohl
Ellen Wohl Colorado State University
Michael Durand
Michael Durand The Ohio State University
Tamlin M. Pavelsky
Tamlin M. Pavelsky University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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