Gretchen Moisen, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Elizabeth Freeman, Jennifer Bakken, Gretchen Moisen, Chris Toney, Mark D. Nelson, P. L. Patterson. 2024. Poststratification for increasing precision in forest inventory and analysis estimates in the Rocky Mountain states
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, Chris Toney, Grayson W. White. 2023. FIESTA: A Forest Inventory Estimation and Analysis R Package
• Paul May, Kelly S. McConville, Gretchen Moisen, Jamis Bruening, Ralph Du. 2023. A spatially varying model for small area estimates of biomass density across the contiguous United States
• Tracey Frescino, Kelly S. McConville, Grayson W. White, Chris Toney, Gretchen Moisen. 2022. Small Area Estimation for national applications: A database to dashboard strategy using FIESTA
• Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston, Gretchen Moisen, Hans Andersen. 2022. Sampling and estimation documentation for the Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: 2022
• Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, P. Corey Green, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Gretchen Moisen. 2022. Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory
• Andrew J. Lister, Hans Andersen, Tracey Frescino, Demetrios Gatziolis, Sean P. Healey, Linda S. Heath, Greg C. C. Liknes, Ronald McRoberts, Gretchen Moisen, Mark Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Karen G. Schleeweis, Todd A. Schroeder, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2020. Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory
• Madelon R. K. Basil, Salma Huque, Kelly S. McConville, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2020. Creating homogenous landfire vegetation classes for forest inventory applications in the Interior West
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, Chris Toney, Elizabeth Freeman. 2020. Demonstrating a progressive FIA through FIESTA: A bridge between science and production
• Miranda A. Rintoul, Sarah Maebius, Edwin Alvarado, Alexander Lloyd-Damnjanovic, Mai Toyohara, Kelly S. McConville, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2020. An alternative post-stratification scheme to decrease variance of forest attribute estimates in the Interior West
• Gretchen Moisen, Kelly S. McConville, Todd A. Schroeder, Sean P. Healey, Mark V Finco, Tracey Frescino. 2020. Estimating land use and land cover change in north central Georgia: Can remote sensing observations augment traditional forest inventory data?
• Karen G. Schleeweis, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Chris Toney, Elizabeth Freeman, Samuel N. Goward, Chengquan Huang, Jennifer L. Dungan. 2020. US National Maps Attributing Forest Change: 1986-2010
• Kelly S. McConville, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2020. A tutorial in model-assisted estimation with application to forest inventory
• Yunuen Reygadas, Jennifer L. R. Jensen, Gretchen Moisen, Nate Currit, Edwin T. Chow. 2020. Assessing the relationship between vegetation greenness and surface temperature through Granger causality and Impulse-Response coefficients: A case study in Mexico
• Yunuen Reygadas, Jennifer L. R. Jensen, Gretchen Moisen. 2019. Forest degradation assessment based on trend analysis of MODIS-Leaf Area Index: A case study in Mexico
• Sean P. Healey, Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang, C. Kenneth Brewer, Evan B. Brooks, Noel Gorelick, Alexander J. Hernandez, Chengquan Huang, M. Joseph Hughes, Robert E. Kennedy, Thomas R. Loveland, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Stephen V Stehman, James E. Vogelmann, Curtis E. Woodcock, Limin Yang, Zhe Zhu. 2018. Mapping forest change using stacked generalization: An ensemble approach
• Warren B. Cohen, Sean P. Healey, Zhiqiang Yang, Stephen V. Stehman, C. Kenneth Brewer, Evan B. Brooks, Noel Gorelick, Chengqaun Huang, M. Joseph Hughes, Robert Kennedy, Thomas R. Loveland, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, James E. Vogelmann, Curtis E. Woodcock, Limin Yang, Zhe Zhu. 2017. How similar are forest disturbance maps derived from different Landsat time series algorithms?
• Brian Cooke, Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2017. Painting a picture across the landscape with ModelMap
• Todd A. Schroeder, Karen G. Schleeweis, Gretchen Moisen, Chris Toney, Warren B. Cohen, Elizabeth Freeman, Zhiqiang Yang, Chengquan Huang. 2017. Testing a Landsat-based approach for mapping disturbance causality in U.S. forests
• Kelly S. McConville, F. Jay Breidt, Thomas C. M. Lee, Gretchen Moisen. 2017. Model-assisted survey regression estimation with the lasso
• Gretchen Moisen, Mary C. Meyer, Todd A. Schroeder, Xiyue Liao, Karen G. Schleeweis, Elizabeth Freeman, Chris Toney. 2016. Shape selection in Landsat time series: A tool for monitoring forest dynamics
• Zachary A. Holden, Alan Swanson, Anna E. Klene, John T. Abatzoglou, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Samuel A. Cushman, John R. Squires, Gretchen Moisen, Jared W. Oyler. 2016. Development of high-resolution (250 m) historical daily gridded air temperature data using reanalysis and distributed sensor networks for the US northern Rocky Mountains
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, Elizabeth Freeman, James S. Menlove. 2016. Nevada Photo-Based Inventory Pilot (NPIP) resource estimates (2004-2005)
• J. Chris Toney, Karen G. Schleeweis, Jennifer Dungan, Andrew Michaelis, Todd A. Schroeder, Gretchen Moisen. 2015. Nationwide disturbance attribution on NASA’s earth exchange: experiences in a high-end computing environment
• Karen G. Schleeweis, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Chris Toney, Elizabeth Freeman. 2015. On the road to national mapping and attribution of the processes underlying U.S
• Todd A. Schroeder, Gretchen Moisen, Karen G. Schleeweis, Chris Toney, Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang, Elizabeth Freeman. 2015. Using an empirical and rule-based modeling approach to map cause of disturbance in U.S
• Sean P. Healey, Warren B. Cohen, Yang Zhiqiang, Ken Brewer, Evan Brooks, Noel Gorelick, Mathew Gregory, Alexander Hernandez, Chengquan Huang, Joseph Hughes, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Loveland, Kevin Megown, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Brian Schwind, Stephen Stehman, Daniel Steinwand, James Vogelmann, Curtis Woodcock, Limin Yang, Zhe Zhu. 2015. Next-generation forest change mapping across the United States: the landscape change monitoring system (LCMS)
• Mary Meyer, Xiyue Liao, Gretchen Moisen, Elizabeth Freeman. 2015. ShapeSelectForest: a new r package for modeling landsat time series
• Marek Matyjasik, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Tracy Frescino, Michael Hernandez. 2015. Forest disturbances trigger erosion controlled fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus and dissolved carbon
• Tracey Frescino, Paul L. Patterson, Gretchen Moisen, Elizabeth Freeman. 2015. FIESTA—An R estimation tool for FIA analysts
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen, K. Adachi, J. Breidt. 2014. Small-area estimation of forest attributes within fire boundaries
• M. Matyjasik, Gretchen Moisen, C. Combe, T. Hathcock, S. Mitts, M. Hernandez, Tracey Frescino, Todd A. Schroeder. 2014. Effects of historic forest disturbance on water quality and flow in the Interior Western U.S.
• Gretchen Moisen, K. Brewer, R. Czaplewski, Sean P. Healey, K. Megown, M. Finco. 2014. The role of remote sensing in U.S. forest inventories: Past, present and future
• Todd A. Schroeder, Gretchen Moisen, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2014. Testing alternative response designs for training forest disturbance and attribution models
• W. Cohen, H. Andersen, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, C. Woodall, G. Domke, Z. Yang, S. Stehman, R. Kennedy, C. Woodcock, Z. Zhu, J. Vogelmann, D. Steinwand, C. Huang. 2014. An historically consistent and broadly applicable MRV system based on LiDAR sampling and Landsat time-series
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen, J. Coulston, B. Wilson. 2014. Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance
• Todd A. Schroeder, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino, Warren B. Cohen, Chengquan Huang, Robert Kennedy, Zhiqiang Yang. 2014. Improving estimates of forest disturbance by combining observations from Landsat time series with U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data
• Jacob Gibson, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino, Thomas C. Edwards. 2013. Using publicly available forest inventory data in climate-based modes of tree species distribution: Examining effects of true versus altered location coordinates
• Karen G. Schleeweis, Samuel N. Goward, Chengquan Huang, Jeffrey G. Masek, Gretchen Moisen, Robert Kennedy, Nancy E. Thomas. 2013. Regional dynamics of forest canopy change and underlying causal processes in the contiguous US
• John Tipton, Jean Opsomer, Gretchen Moisen. 2013. Properties of Endogenous Post-Stratified Estimation using remote sensing data
• Samuel A. Cushman, Timothy J. Mersmann, Gretchen Moisen, Kevin S. McKelvey, Christina D. Vojta. 2013. Chapter 5. Using Habitat Models for Habitat Mapping and Monitoring
• Jeffrey G. Masek, Samuel N. Goward, Robert Kennedy, Warren B. Cohen, Gretchen Moisen, Karen Schleweiss, Chengquan Huang. 2013. United States forest disturbance trends observed with landsat time series
• Zachary A. Holden, Anna E. Klene, Robert F. Keefe, Gretchen Moisen. 2013. Design and evaluation of an inexpensive radiation shield for monitoring surface air temperatures
• Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson. 2012. Improving FIA trend analysis through model-based estimation using landsat disturbance maps and the forest vegetation simulator
• Sean P. Healey, Paul L. Patterson, Sassan Saatchi, Michael A. Lefsky, Andrew J. Lister, Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Applying inventory methods to estimate aboveground biomass from satellite light detection and ranging (LiDAR) forest height data
• Ray L. Czaplewski, Mike T. T. Thompson, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. An efficient estimator to monitor rapidly changing forest conditions
• John Tipton, Jean Opsomer, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Properties of the endogenous post-stratified estimator using a random forests model
• Todd A. Schroeder, Gretchen Moisen, Sean P. Healey, Warren B. Cohen. 2012. Adding value to the FIA inventory: combining FIA data and satellite observations to estimate forest disturbance
• Karen G. Schleeweis, Samuel N. Goward, Chengquan Huang, Jeffrey Masek, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Understanding trends in observations of forest disturbance and their underlying causal processes
• Jacob Gibson, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino, Thomas C. Jr. Edwards. 2012. Expansion and contraction tension zones in western pinon-juniper woodlands under projected climate change
• Gretchen Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Karen G. Schleeweis, Chris Toney, Warren B. Cohen, Samuel N. Goward. 2012. Attributing causal agents to nationwide maps of forest disturbance
• Tracey Frescino, Paul L. Patterson, Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Using FIESTA , an R-based tool for analysts, to look at temporal trends in forest estimates
• Todd A. Schroeder, Michael A. Wulder, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Detecting post-fire salvage logging with Landsat change maps and national fire survey data
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2012. Evaluating effectiveness of down-sampling for stratified designs and unbalanced prevalence in Random Forest models of tree species distributions in Nevada
• Gretchen Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Warren B. Cohen, Mark V. Finco. 2012. Choosing appropriate subpopulations for modeling tree canopy cover nationwide
• John Tipton, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, Thomas A. Jackson, John W. Coulston. 2012. Sampling intensity and normalizations: Exploring cost-driving factors in nationwide mapping of tree canopy cover
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Comparing alternative tree canopy cover estimates derived from digital aerial photography and field-based assessments
• Thomas A. Jackson, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, John Tipton. 2012. Repeatability in photo-interpretation of tree canopy cover and its effect on predictive mapping
• Todd A. Schroeder, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen. 2012. Evaluating the compatibility of American and Mexican national forest inventory data
• John W. Coulston, Gretchen Moisen, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Mark V. Finco, Warren B. Cohen, Ken Brewer. 2012. Modeling percent tree canopy cover: a pilot study
• Todd A. Schroeder, Michael A. Wulder, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen. 2011. Mapping wildfire and clearcut harvest disturbances in boreal forests with Landsat time series data
• Sean P. Healey, Elizabeth Burrill, Gretchen Moisen, Scott Powell. 2011. Maintaining the confidentiality of plot locations by exploiting the low sensitivity of forest structure models to different spectral extraction kernels
• Magdalena Main-Knorn, Gretchen Moisen, Sean P. Healey, William S. Keeton, Elizabeth Freeman, Patrick Hostert. 2011. Evaluating the remote sensing and inventory-based estimation of biomass in the western Carpathians
• Kirk M. Stueve, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Mark D. Nelson, Sean P. Healey, Andrew D. Hill, Gretchen Moisen, Warren B. Cohen, Dale D. Gormanson, Chengquan Huang. 2011. Ecological importance of intermediate windstorms rivals large, infrequent disturbances in the northern Great Lakes
• Scott Powell, Warren B. Cohen, Sean P. Healey, Robert Kennedy, Gretchen Moisen, Ken Pierce, Janet Ohmann. 2010. Quantification of live aboveground forest biomass dynamics with Landsat time-series and field inventory data: A comparison of empirical modeling approaches
• Sean P. Healey, Jock A. Blackard, Todd A. Morgan, Dan Loeffler, Greg G. Jones, Jon Songster, Jason P. Brandt, Gretchen Moisen, Larry DeBlander. 2009. Changes in timber haul emissions in the context of shifting forest management and infrastructure
• Mark Chopping, Anne Nolin, Gretchen Moisen, John V. Martonchik, Michael Bull. 2009. Forest canopy height from Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) assessed with high resolution discrete return lidar
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen. 2009. Using interpreted large scale aerial photo data to enhance satellite-based mapping and explore forest land definitions
• William McWilliams, Gretchen Moisen, Ray L. Czaplewski. 2009. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2008; October 21-23, 2008; Park City, UT
• Tracey Frescino, Gretchen Moisen, Kevin A. Megown, Val J. Nelson, Elizabeth Freeman, Paul L. Patterson, Mark Finco, James S. Menlove. 2009. Nevada Photo-Based Inventory Pilot (NPIP) photo sampling procedures
• Jock A. Blackard, M. V. Finco, Eileen Helmer, G. R. Holden, M. L. Hoppus, D.M. Jacobs, Tonya Lister, Gretchen Moisen, Mark D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, B. Ruefenacht, D. Salajanu, D. L. Weyermann, K. C. Winterberger, T. J. Brandeis, Ray L. Czaplewski, Ronald E. McRoberts, Paul L. Patterson, Ronald Tymcio. 2008. Mapping U.S. forest biomass using nationwide forest inventory data and moderate resolution information
• Alberto Sandoval Uribe, Sean P. Healey, Gretchen Moisen, Rigoberto Palafox Rivas, Enrique Gonzalez Aguilar, Carmen Lourdes Meneses Tovar, Ernesto S. Diaz Ponce Davalos, Vanessa Silva Mascorro. 2008. Mexican forest inventory expands continental carbon monitoring
• Gretchen Moisen. 2008. Classification and regression trees
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen. 2008. A comparison of the performance of threshold criteria for binary classification in terms of predicted prevalence and Kappa
• Mark Chopping, Gretchen Moisen, Lihong Su, Andrea Laliberte, Albert Rango, John V. Martonchik, Debra P. C. Peters. 2008. Large area mapping of southwestern forest crown cover, canopy height, and biomass using the NASA Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen. 2008. PresenceAbsence: An R package for presence absence analysis
• Sean P. Healey, Warren B. Cohen, Gretchen Moisen. 2007. Applications of satellite-derived disturbance information in support of sustainable forest management
• Warren B. Cohen, Sean P. Healey, Samuel Goward, Gretchen Moisen, Jeffrey G. Masek, Robert Kennedy, Scott Powell, Chengquan Huang, Nancy Thomas, Karen Schleeweis, Michael A. Wulder. 2007. Use of Landsat-based monitoring of forest change to sample and assess the role of disturbance and regrowth in the carbon cycle at continental scales
• Jean D. Opsomer, F. Jay Breidt, Gretchen Moisen, Goran Kauermann. 2007. Model-assisted estimation of forest resources with generalized additive models
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen. 2007. Evaluating kriging as a tool to improve moderate resolution maps of forest biomass
• Mark D. Nelson, Gretchen Moisen, Mark Finco. 2007. Forest Inventory and Analysis in the United States: Remote sensing and geospatial activities
• Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Thomas C. Edwards, Gretchen Moisen. 2007. Habitat classification modelling with incomplete data: Pushing the habitat envelope
• Gretchen Moisen, Elizabeth Freeman, Jock A. Blackard, Tracey Frescino, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thomas C. Edwards. 2006. Predicting tree species presence and basal area in Utah: A comparison of stochastic gradient boosting, generalized additive models, and tree-based methods
• Gretchen Moisen, Thomas C. Edwards, Patrick E. Osborne. 2006. Further advances in predicting species distributions
• Thomas C. Edwards, D. Richard Cutler, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Linda Geiser, Gretchen Moisen. 2006. Effects of sample survey design on the accuracy of classification tree models in species distribution models
• Gregory A. Reams, William D. Smith, Mark H. Hansen, William Bechtold, Francis Roesch, Gretchen Moisen. 2005. The forest inventory and analysis sampling frame
• Charles Scott, William Bechtold, Gregory A. Reams, William D. Smith, Jim Westfall, Mark H. Hansen, Gretchen Moisen. 2005. Sample-based estimators used by the forest inventory and analysis national information management system
• Bonnie Ruefenacht, Gretchen Moisen, Jock A. Blackard. 2004. Forest type mapping of the Interior West
• Gretchen Moisen, Tracey Frescino. 2002. Comparing five modelling techniques for predicting forest characteristics

Data and Tools

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  Model-Assisted Survey Estimation (mase)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/model-assisted-survey-estimation-mase

Multimedia

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  Meet Dr. Gretchen Moisen, Research Forester

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-dr-gretchen-moisen-research-forester

• University of New Hampshire, B.S., Forestry, 1982
• Utah State University, M.S., Statistics, 1990
• Utah State University, Ph.D., Statistics, 2000