Benjamin C. Bright

Treesearch Publications

• Nuria Sánchez-López, Andrew T. Hudak, Mac A. Callaham, Melanie K. Taylor, Toni Viskari, Benjamin C. Bright, Seth Bigelow, Susan Prichard, E. Louise Loudermilk, Luigi Boschetti, Christie Hawley, Deborah Nemens. 2026. Coupling duff development with tree litter and downed fuel inputs, decomposition and fire consumption in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in Florida
• Brent W. Oblinger, Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Kerri T. Vierling. 2026. Methods for identifying topkill in conifers using airborne lidar to monitor structural diversity and disturbance
• Eugenia Kelly Luciano Batista, Andrew T. Hudak, Jeff W. Atkins, Eben North Broadbent, Kody Melissa Brock, Michael J. Campbell, Nuria Sanchez-Lopez, Monique Bohora Schlickmann, Francisco Mauro, Andres Susaeta, Eric Rowell, Caio Hamamura, Ana Paula Dalla Corte, Inga La Puma, Russell A. Parsons, Benjamin C. Bright, Jason Vogel, Inacio Thomaz Bueno, Gabriel Maximo da Silva, Carine Klaubers, Jinyi Xia, Jessie F. Eastburn, Kleydson Diego Rocha, Carlos Alberto Silva. 2025. Comparing terrestrial and mobile laser scanning approaches for multi-layer fuel load prediction in the Western United States
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Nuria Sanchez-Lopez, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, Eric Rowell, Joseph J. O’Brien, Steven A. Flanagan, Kevin Robertson, Akira Kato, Chad Hoffman, David R. Weise, J. Kevin Hiers. 2025. Comparing biomass consumption estimated from point cloud data versus long-wave infrared imagery during prescribed growing season burns in pine woodlands of the southeastern United States
• Michael J. Campbell, Andrew T. Hudak, T. Ryan McCarley, Benjamin C. Bright, Philip E. Dennison. 2025. Kernel density change: A new bitemporal lidar metric for directly mapping wildland fire fuel consumption
• Jeffrey A. Hicke, Benjamin C. Bright, Ryan Hanavan, Andrew T. Hudak, Arjan J.H. Meddens, Abhinav Shrestha, Amanda T. Stahl. 2024. Remote sensing of forest insect and disease outbreaks in the western United States: Tree, stand, and landscape responses and technologies and methods for detection and attribution
• Antonio Montagnoli, Andrew T. Hudak, Pasi Raumonen, Bruno Lasserre, Mattia Terzaghi, Carlos A. Silva, Benjamin C. Bright, Lee A. Vierling, Bruna N. de Vasconcellos, Donato Chiatante, Kas Dumroese. 2024. Terrestrial laser scanning and low magnetic field digitization yield similar architectural coarse root traits for 32-year-old Pinus ponderosa trees
• T. Ryan McCarley, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, James Cronan, Paige Eagle, Roger D. Ottmar, Adam Watts. 2024. Generating fuel consumption maps on prescribed fire experiments from airborne laser scanning
• Nuria Sánchez-López, Andrew T. Hudak, Luigi Boschetti, Carlos A. Silva, Kevin Robertson, E Louise Loudermilk, Benjamin C. Bright, Mac A. Callaham, Melanie K. Taylor. 2023. A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US
• Robert Andrus, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Amanda T. Stahl, Arjan J. H. Meddens. 2023. Automated attribution of forest disturbance types from remote sensing data: A synthesis
• Nuria Sanchez-Lopez, Andrew T. Hudak, Luigi Boschetti, Carlos A. Silva, Benjamin C. Bright, E Louise. Loudermilk. 2022. A spatially explicit model of litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forest ecosystems of the Southeastern USA
• Benjamin C. Bright, Brent Oblinger. 2022. Unmasking an underground killer: Trees at high risk of root disease pinpointed with new remote sensing methods
• Molly M. Herzog, Andrew T. Hudak, David R. Weise, Ashley M. Bradley, Russell G. Tonkyn, Catherine A. Banach, Tanya L. Myers, Benjamin C. Bright, Jonathan L. Batchelor, Akira Kato, John S. Maitland, Timothy J. Johnson. 2022. Point cloud based mapping of understory shrub fuel distribution, estimation of fuel consumption and relationship to pyrolysis gas emissions on experimental prescribed burns
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Ryan McCarley, Alexander Spannuth, Nuria Sanchez‑Lopez, Roger D. Ottmar, Amber J. Soja. 2022. Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau
• Mark V Corrao, Andrew T. Hudak, Cody Desautel, Benjamin C. Bright, Edil Sepulveda Carlo. 2022. Carbon monitoring and above ground biomass trends: Anchor forest opportunities for tribal, private and federal relationships
• Brent W. Oblinger, Benjamin C. Bright, Ryan Hanavan, Mike Simpson, Andrew T. Hudak, Bruce D. Cook, Lawrence A. Corp. 2022. Identifying conifer mortality induced by Armillaria root disease using airborne lidar and orthoimagery in south central Oregon
• Terrie B. Jain, Andrew S. Nelson, Benjamin C. Bright, John C. Byrne, Andrew T. Hudak. 2022. Biophysical settings that influenced plantation survival during the 2015 wildfires in northern Rocky Mountain moist mixed-conifer forests
• Andrea Watts, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Sabrina Del Gado Aria, Patrick Fekety, Everett Hinkley, Edil Sepulveda, Kevin Halverson. 2020. Where’s the biomass? A new approach for quantifying biomass and carbon in the western United States
• Marcus V. Warwell, John W. Hanna, Geral McDonald, Mee-Sook Kim, Bradley M. Lalande, Jane E. Stewart, Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2020. Armillaria altimontana, a potential natural biological control against Armillaria root disease
• Andrew T. Hudak, Patrick A. Fekety, Van R. Kane, Robert Kennedy, Steven K. Filippelli, Michael J. Falkowski, Wade Tinkham, Alistair M. S. Smith, Nicholas L. Crookston, Grant M. Domke, Mark V Corrao, Benjamin C. Bright, Derek J. Churchill, Peter Gould, Robert McGaughey, Jonathan T. Kane, Jinwei Dong. 2020. A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA
• Terrie B. Jain, Russell T. Graham, John C. Byrne, Benjamin C. Bright. 2020. Canopy opening and site preparation effects on conifer and understory establishment and growth after an uneven-aged free selection regeneration harvest in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Joel Egan, Carl L. Jorgensen. 2020. Mapping multiple insect outbreaks across large regions annually using Landsat time series data
• Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, Benjamin C. Bright, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, Joseph Restaino, Roger D. Ottmar, Gabriel A. Prata, Carlos Cabo, Susan J. Prichard, Eric M. Rowell, David R. Weise. 2020. Towards spatially explicit quantification of pre- and postfire fuels and fuel consumption from traditional and point cloud measurements
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Joel Egan, Carl L. Jorgensen, Franciel E. Rex, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Arjan J. H. Meddens. 2020. Using satellite imagery to evaluate bark beetle-caused tree mortality reported in aerial surveys in a mixed conifer forest in northern Idaho, USA
• Jessie M. Dodge, Eva K. Strand, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Darcy H. Hammond, Beth A. Newingham. 2019. Short- and long-term effects of ponderosa pine fuel treatments intersected by the Egley Fire Complex, Oregon, USA
• April G. Smith, Beth A. Newingham, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright. 2019. Got shrubs? Precipitation mediates long-term shrub and introduced grass dynamics in chaparral communities after fire
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert Kennedy, Justin D. Braaten, Azad Henareh Khalyani. 2019. Examining post-fire vegetation recovery with Landsat time series analysis in three western North American forest types
• Matthew B. Dickinson, Bret W. Butler, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Robert L. Kremens, Carine Klauberg. 2019. Inferring energy incident on sensors in low-intensity surface fires from remotely sensed radiation and using it to predict tree stem injury
• Andrew T. Hudak, Patrick Freeborn, Sarah A. Lewis, Sharon M. Hood, Helen Y. Smith, Colin C. Hardy, Robert J. Kremens, Bret W. Butler, Casey Teske, Bob G. Tissell, Lloyd P. Queen, Bryce L. Nordgren, Benjamin C. Bright, Penelope Morgan, Philip J. Riggan, Lee Macholz, Leigh B. Lentile, James P. Riddering, Edward E. Mathews. 2018. The Cooney Ridge Fire Experiment: An early operation to relate pre-, active, and post-fire field and remotely sensed measurements
• C. Klauberg, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, L. Boschetti, M. B. Dickinson, R. L. Kremens, C. A. Silva. 2018. Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates
• Jane E. Dell, Lora A. Richards, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Andrew T. Hudak, Scott M. Pokswinski, Benjamin C. Bright, J. Kevin Hiers, Brett W. Williams, Lee A. Dyer. 2017. Overstory-derived surface fuels mediate plant species diversity in frequently burned longleaf pine forests
• Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak, Ashley Wells, Sean A. Parks, L. Scott Baggett, Benjamin C. Bright, Patricia Green. 2017. Multidecadal trends in area burned with high severity in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 1880-2012
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Todd J. Hawbaker, Jennifer S. Briggs, Robert Kennedy. 2017. Prediction of forest canopy and surface fuels from lidar and satellite time series data in a bark beetle-affected forest
• Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Benjamin C. Bright, Robert L. Kremens, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Roger D. Ottmar. 2016. Measurements relating fire radiative energy density and surface fuel consumption - RxCADRE 2011 and 2012
• Benjamin C. Bright, E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott M. Pokswinski, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2016. Introducing close-range photogrammetry for characterizing forest understory plant diversity and surface fuel structure at fine scales
• Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Scott M. Pokswinski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Carine Klauberg, Carlos A. Silva. 2016. Mapping forest structure and composition from low-density LiDAR for informed forest, fuel, and fire management at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA
• Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Benjamin Hornsby, Andrew T. Hudak, Dexter Strother, Eric Rowell, Benjamin C. Bright. 2016. Canopy-derived fuels drive patterns of in-fire energy release and understory plant mortality in a longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) sandhill in northwest Florida, USA
• Craig B. Clements, Neil P. Lareau, Daisuke Seto, Jonathan Contezac, Braniff Davis, Casey Teske, Thomas J. Zajkowski, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Matthew B. Dickinson, Bret W. Butler, Daniel Jimenez, J. Kevin Hiers. 2016. Fire weather conditions and fire-atmosphere interactions observed during low-intensity prescribed fires - RxCADRE 2012
• Joseph J. O’Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Benjamin Hornsby, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Matthew B. Dickinson, J. Kevin Hiers, Casey Teske, Roger D. Ottmar. 2016. High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour - RxCADRE 2012
• Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Thomas Zajkowski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wilfrid Schroeder, Luke Ellison, Robert L. Kremens, William Holley, Otto Martinez, Alexander Paxton, Benjamin C. Bright, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Charles Ichoku, Jason Faulring, Aaron Gerace, David L. Peterson, Joseph Mauceri. 2016. Measuring radiant emissions from entire prescribed fires with ground, airborne and satellite sensors - RxCADRE 2012
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert Kennedy, Arjan J. H. Meddens. 2014. Landsat time series and lidar as predictors of live and dead basal area across five bark beetle-affected forests
• Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert McGaughey, Hans-Erik Andersen, Jose Negron. 2013. Predicting live and dead tree basal area of bark beetle affected forests from discrete-return lidar
• Benjamin C. Bright, J. A. Hicke, Andrew T. Hudak. 2012. Landscape-scale analysis of aboveground tree carbon stocks affected by mountain pine beetles in Idaho
• Benjamin C. Bright, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Andrew T. Hudak. 2012. Estimating aboveground carbon stocks of a forest affected by mountain pine beetle in Idaho using lidar and multispectral imagery

• Program
  

  Forest and Woodland Ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/fwe
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Modeling fuel loads and predicting fire behavior: Novel applications of remote sensing technology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/remote-sensing-fuel
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Boise Basin Experimental Forest Project: Science and Management working together to restore dry mixed-conifer forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/boise-basin-experimental-forest-project
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Remote sensing technologies for forest health monitoring

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/remote-sensing-technologies-forest-health-monitoring
• Article
  

  Fuel mapping with remote sensing data on the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/fuel-mapping-remote-sensing-data-kaibab-plateau-arizona

Multimedia

• Podcast
  

  Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/podcasts/multitemporal-lidar-captures-heterogeneity-fuel-loads-and
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Forests: Invasion and Outbreaks in Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-forests-invasion-and-outbreaks-forests

• University of Idaho, M.S., Environmental Science, 2011
• Brigham Young University, B.S., Geography with an emphasis on Geographic Information Systems, 2009