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Jan U.H. Eitel is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on various subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, tree-ring climate responses, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Frequent publication venues for Jan U.H. Eitel's work include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  • Plant Cell & Environment

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jan U.H. Eitel are:

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic, 2020, Science
  • On the Functional Relationship Between Fluorescence and Photochemical Yields in Complex Evergreen Needleleaf Canopies, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Improving Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing of rice plant potassium accumulation by fusing spectral and textural information, 2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring - A white paper, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • viewshed3d: An r package for quantifying 3D visibility using terrestrial lidar data, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Jan U.H. Eitel collaborates regularly with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Lee A. Vierling
  • Kevin L. Griffin
  • Natalie T. Boelman
  • Andrew J. Maguire
  • Stephanie C. Schmiege

Best Publications

  • Remote Sensing Leaf Chlorophyll Content Using a Visible Band Index

    E. Raymond Hunt;C. S. T. Daughtry;Jan U. H. Eitel;Dan S. Long

  • Beyond 3-D: The New Spectrum of Lidar Applications for Earth and Ecological Sciences

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Bernhard Höfle;Lee A. Vierling;Antonio Abellán

  • Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling;Marcy E. Litvak;Dan S. Long

  • Quantifying aboveground forest carbon pools and fluxes from repeat LiDAR surveys

    Andrew T. Hudak;Eva K. Strand;Lee A. Vierling;John C. Byrne

  • Using in-situ measurements to evaluate the new RapidEye™ satellite series for prediction of wheat nitrogen status

    J. U. H. Eitel;D. S. Long;P. E. Gessler;A. M. S. Smith

  • Suitability of existing and novel spectral indices to remotely detect water stress in Populus spp.

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Paul E. Gessler;Alistair M.S. Smith;Ronald Robberecht

  • Estimating aboveground biomass and leaf area of low-stature Arctic shrubs with terrestrial LiDAR

    Heather E. Greaves;Lee A. Vierling;Jan U.H. Eitel;Natalie T. Boelman;Natalie T. Boelman

  • LiDAR based biomass and crop nitrogen estimates for rapid, non-destructive assessment of wheat nitrogen status

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Troy S. Magney;Lee A. Vierling;Tabitha T. Brown;Tabitha T. Brown

  • Combined Spectral Index to Improve Ground-Based Estimates of Nitrogen Status in Dryland Wheat

    J. U. H. Eitel;D. S. Long;P. E. Gessler;E. R. Hunt

  • Proximal NDVI derived phenology improves in-season predictions of wheat quantity and quality

    Troy S. Magney;Jan U.H. Eitel;David R. Huggins;Lee A. Vierling

  • Simultaneous measurements of plant structure and chlorophyll content in broadleaf saplings with a terrestrial laser scanner

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling;Dan S. Long

  • Disentangling the relationships between plant pigments and the photochemical reflectance index reveals a new approach for remote estimation of carotenoid content

    Steven R. Garrity;Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling

  • Response of high frequency Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) measurements to environmental conditions in wheat

    Troy S. Magney;Troy S. Magney;Lee A. Vierling;Jan U.H. Eitel;David R. Huggins

  • Competition for light in heterogeneous canopies: Application of MAESTRA to a coffee (Coffea arabica L.) agroforestry system

    Fabien Charbonnier;Guerric le Maire;Erwin Dreyer;Erwin Dreyer;Fernando Casanoves

  • Improved Salient Feature-Based Approach for Automatically Separating Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Components Within Terrestrial Lidar Point Cloud Data of Forest Canopies

    Lixia Ma;Guang Zheng;Jan U. H. Eitel;L. Monika Moskal

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • High-resolution mapping of aboveground shrub biomass in Arctic tundra using airborne lidar and imagery

    Heather E. Greaves;Lee A. Vierling;Jan U.H. Eitel;Natalie T. Boelman;Natalie T. Boelman

  • Integrating snow science and wildlife ecology in Arctic-boreal North America

    Natalie T. Boelman;Glen E. Liston;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Arjan J. H. Meddens

  • Suitability of terrestrial laser scanning for studying surface roughness effects on concentrated flow erosion processes in rangelands

    Jan U.H. Eitel;C. Jason Williams;Lee A. Vierling;Osama Z. Al-Hamdan;Osama Z. Al-Hamdan

  • Sensitivity of Ground-Based Remote Sensing Estimates of Wheat Chlorophyll Content to Variation in Soil Reflectance

    J. U. H. Eitel;D. S. Long;P. E. Gessler;E. R. Hunt

  • Early season remote sensing of wheat nitrogen status using a green scanning laser

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling;Dan S. Long;E. Raymond Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee A. Vierling
Lee A. Vierling University of Idaho
Kevin L. Griffin
Kevin L. Griffin Columbia University
Arjan J. H. Meddens
Arjan J. H. Meddens Washington State University
David R. Huggins
David R. Huggins Washington State University
Olivier Roupsard
Olivier Roupsard Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Paul E. Gessler
Paul E. Gessler University of Idaho
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Marcy E. Litvak
Marcy E. Litvak University of New Mexico
Barry A. Logan
Barry A. Logan Bowdoin College

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