Hans Andersen, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Grayson W. White, Andrew O. Finley, Josh K. Yamamoto, Jennifer L. Green, Tracey Frescino, David W. MacFarlane, Hans Andersen, Grant M. Domke. 2026. Hierarchical models for small area estimation using zero-inflated forest inventory variables: comparison and implementation
• Jacob L. Strunk, Diogo N. Cosenza, Francisco Mauro, Hans Andersen, Sytze de Bruin, Timothy Bryant, Petteri Packalen. 2025. Mitigation of spatial effects on an area-based lidar forest inventory (2024)
• Jacob L. Strunk, Stephen E. Reutebuch, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen. 2025. An examination of GNSS positioning under dense conifer forest canopy in the Pacific Northwest, USA
• Andrew O. Finley, Hans Andersen, Chad Babcock, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton, Sudipto Banerjee. 2024. Models to support forest inventory and small area estimation using sparsely sampled LiDAR: A case study involving G-LiHT LiDAR in Tanana, Alaska
• Kaili Martin, Roman Dial, Bruce Cook, Douglas Morton, Erin Larson, Hans Andersen. 2024. Lidar-derived estimates of boreal shrub biomass in Southcentral Alaska
• Hans Andersen, Göran Ståhl, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton, Andrew O. Finley. 2024. Model-assisted estimation of domain totals, areas, and densities in two-stage sample survey designs
• Lara T. Murray, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew J. Lister, Keith Stockmann, Hongmei Gu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Karin Riley, Eric J. Greenfield, Christopher Farley, Hans Andersen, Linda S. Heath, Jeff W. Atkins, Grant M. Domke, Andrew C. Oishi, James Smith, Richard Birdsey, David Skole, Stephen Prisley, Anthony D’Amato, Ethan Belair, Eric Marland, Prakash Nepal, Poonam Khatri, Indroneil Ganguly, Richard Bergman, Kamalakanta Sahoo, John D. Shaw, Jens Stevens, Thomas Buchholz, John Gunn, Lisa McCauley, Joe Fargione, Alexis Ellis, David J. Nowak, Mark Majewsky, Christopher Mihiar. 2024. Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Sean MP. Cahoon, Kathryn C. Baer, Kate Legner, Loretta Winton, Garret Dubois, Will Putman, Patrick Sullivan, Kate C. Marcille, Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Richard Smith, John M. Chase, Glenn Christensen, Jane Terzibashian, Andrew Gray. 2022. Forest resources of the Tanana unit, Alaska: 2018
• Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston, Gretchen Moisen, Hans Andersen. 2022. Sampling and estimation documentation for the Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: 2022
• Sándor F. Tóth, Kiva L. Oken, Christine C. Stawitz, Hans Andersen. 2022. Optimal survey design for forest carbon monitoring in remote regions using multi-objective mathematical programming
• Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Robert McGaughey. 2022. Using high-performance global navigation satellite system technology to improve Forest Inventory and Analysis plot coordinates in the Pacific region
• Roman J. Dial, Bethany K. Schulz, Eric Lewis‐Clark, Kaili Martin, Hans Andersen. 2021. Using fractal self‐similarity to increase precision of shrub biomass estimates
• Roman Dial, Pierre Chaussé, Mallory Allgeier, Tom Scott Smeltz, Trevor Golden, Thomas Day, Russell Wong, Hans Andersen. 2021. Estimating Net Primary Productivity (NPP) and debris-fall in forests using lidar time series
• Caileigh Shoot, Hans Andersen, L. Monika Moskal, Chad Babcock, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton. 2021. Classifying forest type in the National Forest Inventory context with airborne hyperspectral and lidar data
• 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
• Michael Alonzo, Roman J. Dial, Bethany K. Schulz, Hans Andersen, Eric Lewis-Clark, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton. 2020. Mapping tall shrub biomass in Alaska at landscape scale using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and lidar
• Kate Legner, Hans Andersen, Andrew Cooke, Warren B. Cohen. 2020. A cost-effective field measurement protocol to support lidar-assisted carbon monitoring programs—implementing a prototype design at six different sites in the United States
• Rachel White, Janet S. Prevey, Teresa Hollingsworth, Hans Andersen. 2019. Warming in the Cold North
• Andrea Watts, Hans Andersen, Bruce Cook, Mike Alonzo. 2019. Innovation in the Interior: How state-of-the-art remote sensing is helping to inventory Alaska’s last frontier
• Jacob L. Strunk, Petteri Packalen, Peter Gould, Demetrios Gatziolis, Caleb Maki, Hans Andersen, Robert McGaughey. 2019. Large area forest yield estimation with pushbroom Digital Aerial Photogrammetry
• Sean MP. Cahoon, Patrick F. Sullivan, Annalis H. Brownlee, Robert Pattison, Hans Andersen, Kate Legner, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2018. Contrasting drivers and trends of coniferous and deciduous tree growth in interior Alaska
• Michael Alonzo, Hans Andersen, Douglas Morton, Bruce Cook. 2018. Quantifying boreal forest structure and composition using UAV structure from motion
• Chad Babcock, Andrew O. Finley, Hans Andersen, Robert Pattison, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton, Michael Alonzo, Ross Nelson, Timothy Gregoire, Liviu Ene, Terje Gobakken, Erik Næsset. 2018. Geostatistical estimation of forest biomass in interior Alaska combining Landsat-derived tree cover, sampled airborne lidar and field observations
• Robert Pattison, Hans Andersen, Andrew Gray, Bethany K. Schulz, Robert Smith, Sarah Jovan. 2018. Forests of the Tanana Valley State Forest and Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska: results of the 2014 pilot inventory
• Robert McGaughey, Kamal Ahmed, Hans Andersen, Stephen E. Reutebuch. 2017. Effect of occupation time on the horizontal accuracy of a mapping-grade GNSS receiver under dense forest canopy
• Ram Deo, Matthew Russell, Grant M. Domke, Hans Andersen, Warren B. Cohen, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2017. Evaluating Site-Specific and Generic Spatial Models of Aboveground Forest Biomass Based on Landsat Time-Series and LiDAR Strip Samples in the Eastern USA
• Solichin Manuri, Hans Andersen, Robert McGaughey, Cris Brack. 2017. Assessing the influence of return density on estimation of lidar-based aboveground biomass in tropical peat swamp forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Ross Nelson, Hank Margolis, Paul Montesano, Guoqing Sun, Bruce Cook, Larry Corp, Hans Andersen, Ben deJong, Fernando Paz Pellat, Thaddeus Fickel, Jobriath Kauffman, Stephen Prisley. 2017. Lidar-based estimates of aboveground biomass in the continental US and Mexico using ground, airborne, and satellite observations
• Timothy G. Gregoire, Erik Næsset, Ronald E. McRoberts, Göran Ståhl, Hans Andersen, Terje Gobakken, Liviu Ene, Ross Nelson. 2016. Statistical rigor in LiDAR-assisted estimation of aboveground forest biomass
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David N. Wear, James Smith, Hans Andersen, Brian J. Clough, Warren B. Cohen, Douglas Griffith, Stephen C. Hagen, Ian S. Hanou, Michael C. Nichols, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Matthew B. Russell, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
• Chad Babcock, Hans Andersen, Andrew O. Finley, Bruce D. Cook. 2015. A bayesian hierarchical model for spatio-temporal prediction and uncertainty assessment using repeat LiDAR acquisitions for the Kenai Peninsula, AK, USA
• R. McLain, Lee K. Cerveny, Paul M. Montesano, André Beaudoin, Guoqing Sun, Hans Andersen, Michael A. Wulder, S. Rohdy. 2015. Mapping human environment connections on the Olympic Peninsula: an atlas of landscape values
• Hans Andersen, Steve Reutebuch, R.J. McGaughey, M.V.N. d'Oliveira, Michael Keller. 2014. Monitoring selective logging in western Amazonia with repeat lidar flights
• Jacob L. Strunk, Hailemariam Temesgen, Hans Andersen, James P. Flewelling, Lisa Madsen. 2012. Effects of lidar pulse density and sample size on a model-assisted approach to estimate forest inventory variables
• Hans Andersen, Robert Pattison. 2012. Characterizing environmental change in interior Alaska (1982-2012) using multi-temporal, multi-scale remote sensing data and field measurements
• Andrew T. Hudak, Ben Bright, Jose Negron, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen, Jeffrey A. Hicke. 2012. Predicting live and dead basal area in bark beetle-affected forests from discrete-return LiDAR
• Jacob L. Strunk, Stephen E. Reutebuch, Hans Andersen, Peter Gould, Robert McGaughey. 2012. Model-assisted forest yield estimation with light detection and ranging
• Marcus V.N. d'Oliveira, Steve Reutebuch, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen. 2012. Estimating forest biomass and identifying low-intensity logging areas using airborne scanning lidar in Antimary State Forest, Acre State, Western Brazilian Amazon
• Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Hailemariam Temesgen. 2011. Using airborne lidar as a sampling tool for estimating forest biomass resources in the upper Tanana Valley of interior Alaska
• Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Hailemariam Temesgen. 2011. Using airborne light detection and ranging as a sampling tool for estimating forest biomass resources in the upper Tanana Valley of interior Alaska
• Hans Andersen, Tobey Clarkin, Ken Winterberger, Jacob L. Strunk. 2009. An accuracy assessment of positions obtained using survey- and recreational-grade Global Positioning System receivers across a range of forest conditions within the Tanana Valley of interior Alaska
• Alicia A. Sullivan, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen, Peter Schiess. 2009. Object-oriented classification of forest structure from light detection and ranging data for stand mapping
• Sooyoung Kim, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen, Gerard Schreuder. 2009. Tree species differentiation using intensity data derived from leaf-on and leaf-off airborne laser scanner data
• Yong Pang, Michael Lefsky, Hans Andersen, Mary Ellen Miller, Kirk Sherrill. 2008. Validation of the ICEsat vegetation product using crown-area-weighted mean height derived using crown delineation with discrete return lidar data
• Steve Reutebuch, Robert McGaughey, Hans Andersen, W.W. Carson. 2003. Accuracy of a high-resolution lidar terrain model under a conifer forest canopy

• Center or Group
  

  Forest Monitoring and Assessment (FMA) Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/fmaresearch
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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Program
  

  Forest Monitoring and Assessment

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/programs/fma
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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Remote Sensing

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/remotesensing
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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  FMA Vegetation Monitoring and Remote Sensing

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/remotesensing
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Techniques

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/techniques
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  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Climate Impacts

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/climateimpacts
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Assessments: Forest Inventory and Analysis in forest management

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• University of Washington, Ph.D., Quantitative Resource Management (Forest Biometrics), 2003
• International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), Professional Master, Forest Survey, 1998
• University of Washington, M.S., Forest Resources, 1997
• Williams College, B.A., History, 1994