Philip J. Riggan
Former Employee
Research Ecologist
Treesearch Publications
- Chandler Ross, Douglas Stow, Daniel Sousa, Megan Jennings, Atsushi Nara, Philip J. Riggan. 2024. Machine learning approach to burned area mapping for Southern California
- Keaton Shennan, Douglas A. Stow, Atsushi Nara, Gavin M. Schag, Philip J. Riggan. 2023. Geovisualization and analysis of landscape-level wildfire behavior using repeat pass airborne thermal infrared imagery
- Gavin M. Schag, Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan, Atsushi Nara. 2022. Spatial-statistical analysis of landscape-level wildfire rate of spread
- Scott Goodrick, Leland Tarnay, Bret A. Anderson, Janice L. Coen, James H. Furman, Rodman Linn, Philip J. Riggan, Christopher C. Schmidt. 2022. Fire Behavior and Heat Release as Source Conditions for Smoke Modeling
- Pete M. Wohlgemuth, Philip J. Riggan, Shirley A. Birosik. 2021. Chapter 16: Ecoregion 11.1.1 California Coastal Sage, Chaparral, and Oak Woodlands: San Dimas Experimental Forest, California
- Gavin M. Schag, Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan, Robert G. Tissell, Janice L. Coen. 2021. Examining landscape-scale fuel and terrain controls of wildfire spread rates using repetitive airborne thermal infrared (ATIR) imagery
- Nancy E. Grulke, Jason Maxfield, Philip J. Riggan, Charlie Schrader-Patton. 2020. Pre-emptive detection of mature pine drought stress using multispectral aerial imagery
- Douglas Stow, Philip J. Riggan, Gavin Schag, William Brewer, Robert Tissell, Janice Coen, Emanuel Storey. 2019. Assessing uncertainty and demonstrating potential for estimating fire rate of spread at landscape scales based on time sequential airborne thermal infrared imaging
- 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
- Kellie A. Uyeda, Douglas A. Stow, Dar A. Roberts, Philip J. Riggan. 2017. Combining ground-based measurements and MODIS-based spectral vegetation indices to track biomass accumulation in post-fire chaparral
- Ian T. Schmidt, John F. O'Leary, Douglas A. Stow, Kellie A. Uyeda, Philip J. Riggan. 2016. Use of ultra-high spatial resolution aerial imagery in the estimation of chaparral wildfire fuel loads
- Diane H. Rachels, Douglas A. Stow, John F. O'Leary, Harry D. Johnson, Philip J. Riggan. 2016. Chaparral recovery following a major fire with variable burn conditions
- Kellie A. Uyeda, Douglas A. Stow, John F. O'Leary, Christina Tague, Philip J. Riggan. 2016. Chaparral growth-ring analysis as an indicator of stand biomass development
- Christopher D. Lippitt, Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan. 2016. Application of the remote-sensing communication model to a time-sensitive wildfire remote-sensing system
- Kellie A. Uyeda, Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan. 2015. Tracking MODIS NDVI time series to estimate fuel accumulation
- Douglas A. Stow, Philip J. Riggan, Emanual A. Storey, Lloyd L. Coulter. 2014. Measuring fire spread rates from repeat pass airborne thermal infrared imagery
- Janice L. Coen, Philip J. Riggan. 2014. Simulation and thermal imaging of the 2006 Esperanza Wildfire in southern California: application of a coupled weather-wildland fire model
- Janice L. Coen, Marques Cameron, John Michalakes, Edward G. Patton, Philip J. Riggan, Kara Yedinak. 2013. WRF-Fire: Coupled Weather–Wildland Fire Modeling with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
- Philip J. Riggan, Lynn G. Wolden, Bob G. Tissell, David R. Weise, J. Coen. 2011. Remote sensing fire and fuels in southern California
- J.L. Coen, Philip J. Riggan. 2011. A landscape-scale wildland fire study using coupled weather-wildland fire model and airborne remote sensing
- Tom W. Coleman, Nancy E. Grulke, Miles Daly, Cesar Godinez, Susan L. Schilling, Philip J. Riggan, Steve J. Seybold. 2011. Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, susceptibility and response to goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus, injury in southern California
- Philip J. Riggan, Bob G. Tissell, Robert N. Lockwood. 2010. Remote measurement of the 1992 Tapera prescribed fire at the Reserva Ecologica do IBGE
- Nancy E. Grulke, R.A. Minnich, T. Paine, Philip J. Riggan. 2010. Air pollution increases forest susceptibility to wildfires: a case study for the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California
- Andrzej Bytnerowicz, D. Cayan, Philip J. Riggan, Susan L. Schilling, P. Dawson, M. Tyree, Lynn G. Wolden, Bob G. Tissell, Haiganoush K. Preisler. 2010. Analysis of the effects of combustion emissions and Santa Ana winds on ambient ozone during the October 2007 southern California wildfires
- Philip J. Riggan, Bob G. Tissell. 2009. Airborne remote sensing of wildland fires
- Philip J. Riggan, J. Hoffman, J. Brass. 2009. Estimating fire properties by remote sensing
- Nancy E. Grulke, R.A. Minnich, T.D. Paine, Steve J. Seybold, Deborah J. Chavez, Mark E. Fenn, Philip J. Riggan, A. Dunn. 2009. Air pollution increases forest susceptibility to wildfires: A case study in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California
- Geraldo José Lucatelli Dória de Araújo, João Antônio Raposo Pereira, Tânia Maria Vieira da Silva, Helvécio Mafra, James A. Brass, Robert N. Lockwood, Robert G. Higgins, Philip J. Riggan. 2008. Utilização Do Sensor Airdas (Airborne Infrared Disaster Assessment System) no monitoramento de desflorestamentos no norte do estado do mato grosso - Brasil
- T. Meixner, Mark E. Fenn, Pete M. Wohlgemuth, Mike A. Oxford, Philip J. Riggan. 2006. N saturation symptoms in chaparral catchments are not reversed by prescribed fire
- James W. Hoffman, Lloyd L. Coulter, Philip J. Riggan. 2005. Rapid turn-around mapping of wildfires and disasters with airborne infrared imagery fro the new FireMapper® 2.0 and Oilmapper systems
- Philip J. Riggan, Bob G. Tissell, Robert N. Lockwood, J.A. Brass, J.A.R. Pereira, H.S. Miranda, A.C. Miranda, T. Campos, R. Higgins. 2004. Remote measurement of energy and carbon flux from wildfires in Brazil
- L.F. Radke, D.E. Ward, Philip J. Riggan. 2001. A prescription for controlling the air pollution resulting from the use of prescribed biomass fire: clouds
- L.F. Radke, T.L. Clark, J.L. Coen, C.A. Walther, Robert N. Lockwood, Philip J. Riggan, J.A. Brass, R.G. Higgins. 2000. The wildfire experiment (WIFE): observations with airborne remote sensors
- A. C. Miranda, H. S. Miranda, J. Lloyd, J. Grace, R. J. Francey, J. A. Mcintyre, P. Meir, Philip J. Riggan, Robert N. Lockwood, J. Brass. 1997. Fluxes of carbon, water and energy over Brazilian cerrado: an analysis using eddy covariance and stable isotopes
- James A. Brass, Liane S. Guild, Philip J. Riggan, Vincent G. Ambrosia, Robert N. Lockwood, A. Pereira Joao. 1996. Characterizing Brazilian fire and estimating areas burned by using the Airborne Infrared Disaster Assessment System
- James A. Brass, Vincent G. Ambrosia, Philip J. Riggan, Paul D. Sebesta. 1996. Consequences of fire on aquatic nitrate and phosphate dynamics in Yellowstone National Park
- Iris Cofman Anderson, Heloisa Sinatora Miranda, Antonia Carlos Miranda, Mark Poth, Philip J. Riggan. 1995. The magnitude and persistence of soil NO, N20, CH4, and C02 fluxes from burned tropical savanna in Brazil
- Keith C. Clarke, James A. Brass, Philip J. Riggan. 1994. A cellular automaton model of wildfire propagation and extinction
- Scott E. Franklin, James A. Brass, Fred E. Brooks, Philip J. Riggan. 1994. Perspectives on fire management in Mediterranean ecosystems of southern California
- Philip J. Riggan, Robert N. Lockwood, P.M. Jacks, C.G. Colver, F. Weirich, L.F. DeBano, J.A. Brass. 1994. Effects of fire severity on nitrate mobilization in watersheds subject to chronic atmospheric deposition
- James A. Brass, Philip J. Riggan, Robert N. Lockwood. 1993. Assessing fire emissions from tropical savanna and forests of central Brazil
- Lawrence F. Radke, Dean A. Hegg, Peter V. Hobbs, J.David Nance, Jamie H. Lyons, Krista K. Laursen, Raymond E. Weiss, Philip J. Riggan, Darold E. Ward. 1991. Particulate and trace gas emissions from large biomass fire in North America
- Dean A. Hegg, Lawrence F. Radke, Peter V. Hobbs, Rei A. Rasmussen, Philip J. Riggan. 1990. Emissions of some trace gases from biomass fires
- Iris C. Anderson, Joel S. Levine, Mark A. Poth, Philip J. Riggan. 1988. Enhanced biogenic emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide following surface biomass burning
- Dean A. Hegg, Lawrence F. Radke, Peter V. Hobbs, Philip J. Riggan. 1988. Ammonia emissions from biomass burning
- Philip J. Riggan, Suzanne Goode, Paula M. Jacks, Robert N. Lockwood. 1988. Interaction of fire and community development in chaparral of southern California
- Wesley R. Cofer, Joel S. Levine, Philip J. Riggan, Daniel I. Sebacher, Edward L. Winstead, Shaw Edwin F., James A. Brass, Vincent. G. Ambrosia. 1988. Trace gas emissions from a mid-latitude prescribed chaparral fire
- Wesley R. Cofer, Joel S. Levine, Daniel I. Sebacher, Edward L. Winstead, Philip J. Riggan, James A. Brass, Vincent G. Ambrosia. 1988. Particulate emissions from a mid-latitude prescribed chaparral fire
- Dean A. Hegg, Lawrence F. Radke, Peter V. Hobbs, Charles A. Brock, Philip J. Riggan. 1987. Nitrogen and sulfur emissions from the burning of forest products near large urban areas
- Philip J. Riggan, Scott Franklin, James A. Brass. 1986. Fire and chaparral management at the chaparral/urban interface
- Philip J. Riggan, Robert N. Lockwood, Ernest N. Lopez. 1985. Deposition and processing of airborne nitrogen pollutants in mediterranean-type ecosystems of southern California
- Ron Dougherty, Philip J. Riggan. 1982. Operational use of prescribed fire in southern California chaparral
- University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, Doctor Of Philosophy, Forest nutrition: measurement and simulation of growth and yield and nitrogen cycling in Douglas-fir forest, 1979
- San Diego State University, B.S., Chemistry (with emphasis on analytical chemistry) and systems ecology, 1973
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