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Delta-X

Colorful radar image of the Mississippi Delta

Publications


Hemati, M., Mahdianpari, M., Shiri, H. and Mohammadimanesh, F., 2024. Integrating SAR and Optical Data for Aboveground Biomass Estimation of Coastal Wetlands Using Machine Learning: Multi-Scale Approach. Remote Sensing, 16(5), p.831.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.3390/rs16050831

Cortese, L., Zhang, X., Simard, M. and Fagherazzi, S., 2024. Storm impacts on mineral mass accumulation rates of coastal marshes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(3), p.e2023JF007065.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2023JF007065

Harringmeyer, J.P., Ghosh, N., Weiser, M.W., Thompson, D.R., Simard, M., Lohrenz, S.E. and Fichot, C.G., 2024. A hyperspectral view of the nearshore Mississippi River Delta: Characterizing suspended particles in coastal wetlands using imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 301, p.113943.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113943

Cortese, L., Donatelli, C., Zhang, X., Nghiem, J.A., Simard, M., Jones, C.E., Denbina, M., Fichot, C.G., Harringmeyer, J.P. and Fagherazzi, S., 2023. Coupling numerical models of deltaic wetlands with AirSWOT, UAVSAR, and AVIRIS-NG remote sensing data. Biogeosciences Discussions, 2023, pp.1-28.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.5194/bg-21-241-2024

Donatelli, C., Passalacqua, P., Jensen, D., Oliver-Cabrera, T., Jones, C.E. and Fagherazzi, S., 2023. Spatial Variability in Salt Marsh Drainage Controlled by Small Scale Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface, 128(11), p.e2023JF007219.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2023JF007219

Donatelli, C., Passalacqua, P., Wright, K., Salter, G., Lamb, M.P., Jensen, D. and Fagherazzi, S., 2023. Quantifying flow velocities in river deltas via remotely sensed suspended sediment concentration. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(4), p.e2022GL101392.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101392

Wright, K., Hariharan, J., Passalacqua, P., Salter, G. and Lamb, M.P., 2022. From grains to plastics: Modeling nourishment patterns and hydraulic sorting of fluvially transported materials in deltas. Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface, 127(11), pp.Art-No.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022JF006769

Salter, G. and Lamb, M.P., 2022. Autocyclic secondary channels stabilize deltaic islands undergoing relative sea level rise. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(15), p.e2022GL098885.
Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098885

Wright, K., Passalacqua, P., Simard, M. and Jones, C.E., 2022. Integrating Connectivity Into Hydrodynamic Models: An Automated Open-Source Method to Refine an Unstructured Mesh Using Remote Sensing. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 14, p.e2022MS003025.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022MS003025

Thompson, D.R., Bohn, N., Brodrick, P.G., Carmon, N., Eastwood, M.L., Eckert, R., Fichot, C., Harringmeyer, J.P., Nguyen, H.M., Simard, M. and Thorpe, A.K., Atmospheric Lengthscales for Global VSWIR Imaging Spectroscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2021JG006711.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006711

Jensen, D.J., Cavanaugh, K.C., Thompson, D.R., Fagherazzi, S., Cortese, L. and Simard, M., Leveraging the Historical Landsat Catalog for a Remote Sensing Model of Wetland Accretion in Coastal Louisiana. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2022JG006794.
Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022JG006794

Salter, G., Passalacqua, P., Wright, K., Feil, S., Jensen, D., Simard, M. and Lamb, M.P., 2022. Spatial patterns of deltaic deposition/erosion revealed by streaklines extracted from remotely‐sensed suspended sediment concentration. Geophysical Research Letters.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098443

Rovai, A.S., Twilley, R.R., Christensen, A., McCall, A., Jensen, D.J., Snedden, G.A., Morris, J.T. and Cavell, J.A., 2022. Biomass allocation of tidal freshwater marsh species in response to natural and manipulated hydroperiod in coastal deltaic floodplains. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 268, p.107784.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107784

Nordio, G. and Fagherazzi, S., Storm surge and tidal dissipation in deltaic wetlands bordering a main channel. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, p.e2021JC017655.
DOI: 10.1029/2021JC017655

Greenberg, E., Thompson, D.R., Jensen, D.J., Townsend, P.A., Queally, N., Chlus, A., Fichot, C.G., Harringmeyer, J. and Simard, M., 2022. An improved scheme for correcting remote spectral surface reflectance simultaneously for terrestrial BRDF and water‐surface sunglint in coastal environments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2021JG006712.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006712

Zhang, X., Wright, K., Passalacqua, P., Simard, M., & Fagherazzi, S., 2022. Improving channel hydrological connectivity in coastal hydrodynamic models with remotely-sensed channel networks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127.
View data & model  |  DOI: 10.1029/2021JF006294

Cortese, L. and Fagherazzi, S., 2022. Fetch and distance from the bay control accretion and erosion patterns in Terrebonne marshes (Louisiana, USA). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5327

Zhang, X., Jones, C.E., Oliver-Cabrera, T., Simard, M. and Fagherazzi, S., 2022. Using rapid repeat SAR interferometry to improve hydrodynamic models of flood propagation in coastal wetlands. Advances in Water Resources, 159, p.104088.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104088

Oliver-Cabrera, T., Jones, C.E., Yunjun, Z. and Simard, M., 2021. InSAR Phase Unwrapping Error Correction for Rapid Repeat Measurements of Water Level Change in Wetlands. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3108751

Hariharan, J., Wright, K. and Passalacqua, P., 2020. dorado: A Python package for simulating passive particle transport in shallow-water flows. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(54), p.2585.
Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.21105/joss.02585

Denbina, M., Simard, M., Rodriguez, E., Wu, X., Chen, A. and Pavelsky, T., 2019. Mapping water surface elevation and slope in the mississippi river delta using the AirSWOT Ka-Band interferometric synthetic aperture radar. Remote Sensing, 11(23), p.2739.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.3390/rs11232739

Jensen, D., Simard, M., Cavanaugh, K., Sheng, Y., Fichot, C.G., Pavelsky, T. and Twilley, R., 2019. Improving the transferability of suspended solid estimation in wetland and deltaic waters with an empirical hyperspectral approach. Remote Sensing, 11(13), p.1629.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.3390/rs11131629

Pre-Delta-X

Jensen, D., Cavanaugh, K.C., Simard, M., Christensen, A., Rovai, A. and Twilley, R., 2021. Aboveground biomass distributions and vegetation composition changes in Louisiana's Wax Lake Delta. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 250, p.107139.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.107139

Jensen, D., Cavanaugh, K.C., Simard, M., Okin, G.S., Castañeda-Moya, E., McCall, A. and Twilley, R.R., 2019. Integrating imaging spectrometer and synthetic aperture radar data for estimating wetland vegetation aboveground biomass in coastal Louisiana. Remote Sensing, 11(21), p.2533.
View data  |  Paper (PDF)  |  DOI: 10.3390/rs11212533

Jensen, D.J., Simard, M., Cavanaugh, K.C. and Thompson, D.R., 2017. Imaging spectroscopy BRDF correction for mapping Louisiana’s coastal ecosystems. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(3), pp.1739-1748.
View data  |  DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2767607