Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Drews, F.A., Musters, A., Siebeneck, L.K., and Cova, T.J. (in press) Environmental
factors that affect wildfire protective-action recommendations. International Journal
of Emergency Management.
Dennison, P.E., S.C. Brewer, J.D. Arnold, and M.A. Moritz, 2014. Large wildfire trends
in the western United States, 1984-2011. Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 2928–2933.
Siebeneck, L.K., and Cova, T.J. (2014) Risk communication after disaster: re-entry
following the 2008 Cedar River Flood. Natural Hazards Review, 15(2): 158-166.
Dennison P.E., Fryer,G., Cova, T.J. (2014) Identification of firefighter safety zones
using lidar. Environmental Modelling and Software, 59: 91-97.
Qi, Y., P.E. Dennison, W.M. Jolly, R.C. Kropp, and S.C. Brewer (2014) Spectroscopic
Analysis of Seasonal changes in live fuel moisture content and leaf dry mass. Remote
Sensing of Environment, 150, 198-206.
Arnold, J.D., S.C. Brewer, and P.E. Dennison (2014) Modeling climate-fire connections
within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States. Fire
Ecology, 10, 64-75.
Casas, A., D. Riaño, S.L. Ustin, P. Dennison, and J. Salas (2014) Estimation of water-related
biochemical and biophysical vegetation properties using multitemporal airborne hyperspectral
data and its comparison to MODIS spectral response. Remote Sensing of Environment,
148, 28-41.
Fryer, G., Dennison, P.E. and Cova, T.J. (2013) Wildland firefighter entrapment avoidance:
modeling evacuation triggers. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22(7): 883-893.
Cova, T.J., Theobald, D.M, Norman, J., and Siebeneck, L.K., (2013) Mapping wildfire
evacuation vulnerability in the western US: the limits of infrastructure. Geojournal,
78(2): 273-285.
Yebra, M., P.E. Dennison, E. Chuvieco, D. Riano, P. Zylstra, E.R. Hunt, F.M. Danson,
Y. Qi, and S. Jurdao (2013) A global review of remote sensing of live fuel moisture
content for fire danger assessment: moving towards operational products. Remote Sensing
of Environment, 136, 455-468.
Thorpe, A.K., D.A. Roberts, E.S. Bradley, C.C. Funk, P.E. Dennison, and I. Leifer
(2013) High resolution mapping of methane emissions from marine and terrestrial sources
using a Cluster-Tuned Matched Filter technique and imaging spectrometry. Remote Sensing
of Environment, 134, 305-318.
Mathseon, D.S. and P.E. Dennison (2012) Evaluating the effects of spatial resolution
on hyperspectral fire detection and temperature retrieval. Remote Sensing of Environment,
124, 780-792.
Qi, Y., P.E. Dennison, J. Spencer, and D. Riaño (2012) Monitoring live fuel moisture
using soil moisture and remote sensing proxies. Fire Ecology, 8(3), 71-87.
Roth, K.L., P.E. Dennison, and D.A. Roberts (2012) Comparing endmember selection techniques
for accurate mapping of plant species and land cover using imaging spectrometer data.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 127, 139–152.
Leifer, I. , B. Lehr, D. Simecek-Beatty, E. Bradley, R. Clark, P. Dennison, Y. Hu,
S. Matheson, C. Jones, B. Holt, M. Reif, D. Roberts, J. Svejkovsky, G. Swayze and
J. Wozencraft (2012) State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote
sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Remote Sensing of Environment,
124, 185-209.
Siebeneck, L.K. and Cova, T.J., (2012) Spatial and temporal variation in evacuee risk
perception throughout the evacuation and return-entry process. Risk Analysis, 32(9),
1468-1480.
Cova, T.J., Dennison, P.E., Drews, F.A., (2011) Modeling evacuate versus shelter-in-place
decisions in wildfires. Sustainability, 3(10): 1662-1687.
Dennison, P.E., and D.S. Matheson (2011) Comparison of fire temperature and fractional
area modeled from SWIR, MIR, and TIR multispectral and SWIR hyperspectral airborne
data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 876-886.
Larsen, J.C., P.E. Dennison, T.J. Cova, and C. Jones (2011) Evaluating dynamic wildfire
evacuation trigger buffers using the 2003 Cedar Fire. Applied Geography, 31, 12-19.
Bradley, E.S., D.A. Roberts, P.E. Dennison, R.O. Green, M. Eastwood, S.R. Lundeen,
I.B. McCubbin, and I. Leifer (2011) Google Earth and Google Fusion Tables in support
of time-critical collaboration: Mapping the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with the AVIRIS
airborne spectrometer. Earth Science Informatics, 4, 169-179.
Bradley, E.S., I. Leifer, D.A. Roberts, P.E. Dennison, and L. Washburn (2011) Detection
of Marine Methane Emissions with AVIRIS Band Ratios. Journal of Geophysical Research,
38, L10702.
Peterson, S.H., M.A. Moritz, M.E. Morais, P.E. Dennison, and J.M. Carlson (2011) Modeling
long-term fire regimes of southern California shrublands. International Journal of
Wildland Fire, 20, 1-16.
Cao, L., Cova, T.J., Dennison, P.E., and Dearing, M.D. (2011) Using MODIS imagery
to predict hantavirus risk. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20: 620-629.
Kobayashi, T., Medina, R., and Cova, T.J., (2011) Visualizing diurnal population change
in urban areas for emergency management. Professional Geographer, 63: 113-130.
Larsen, J.C., Dennison, P.E., Cova, T.J., Jones, C. (2011) Evaluating dynamic wildfire
evacuation trigger buffers using the 2003 Cedar Fire. Applied Geography, 3: 12-19.
Roberts, D.A., E.S. Bradley, R. Cheung, I. Leifer, P.E. Dennison, and J. Margolis
(2010) Mapping methane emissions from a marine geological seep source Using imaging
spectrometry. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 592-606.
Moffatt, S.F. and Cova, T.J., (2010) Parcel-scale earthquake loss estimation with
HAZUS: a case-study in Salt Lake County, Utah. Cartography and Geographic Information
Science, 37: 17-29.
Anguelova, Z., Stow, D.A., Kaiser, J., Dennison, P.E., Cova, T.J., (2010) Integrating
fire behavior and pedestrian mobility models to assess potential risk to humans from
wildfires within the US-Mexico border zone. Professional Geographer, 62: 230-247.
Dennison, P.E., and M.A. Moritz (2009) Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems:
A threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation. International
Journal of Wildland Fire, 18, 1021-1027.
Dennison, P.E. and D.A. Roberts (2009) Daytime fire detection using airborne hyperspectral
data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 1646-1657.
Dennison, P.E., P.L. Nagler, K.R. Hultine, E.P. Glenn, and J.R. Ehleringer (2009)
Remote monitoring of tamarisk defoliation and evapotranspiration following saltcedar
leaf beetle attack. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113, 1462-1472.
Pultar, E., Raubal, M., Cova, T.J., Goodchild, M.F. (2009) Dynamic GIS case studies:
wildfire evacuation and volunteered geographic information. Transactions in GIS, 13:
84-104.
Siebeneck, L. K., R. M. Medina, I. Yamada, and G. F. Hepner (2009) Spatial and temporal
analyses of terrorist incidents in Iraq, 2004-2006. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism,
32(7): 591-610.
Cova, T.J., Drews, F.A., Siebeneck, L.K. and Musters, A. (2009) Protective actions
in wildfires: evacuate or shelter-in-place? Natural Hazards Review, 10(4): 151-162.
Siebeneck, L.K. and Cova, T.J. (2008) An assessment of the return-entry process for
Hurricane Rita 2005. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. 26(2):
91-111.
Dennison, P.E., M.A. Moritz, and R.S. Taylor (2008) Evaluating predictive models of
chamise critical live fuel moisture in the Santa Monica Mountains, California. International
Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 18-27.
Peterson, S.H., D.A. Roberts, and P.E. Dennison (2008) Mapping live fuel moisture
with MODIS data: a multiple regression approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112,
4272-4284.
Clark, R.E., A.S. Hope, S. Tarantola, D. Gatelli, P.E. Dennison and M.A. Moritz (2008)
Sensitivity analysis of a fire spread model in a chaparral landscape. Fire Ecology,
4, 1-13.
Medina, R., and G. F. Hepner. (2008) Geospatial analysis of dynamic terrorist networks.
In Values and Violence: Intangible Aspects of Terrorism, eds. I. Karawan, W. McCormack
and S. E. Reynolds. Berlin: Springer
Dennison, P.E., M.A. Moritz, and R.S. Taylor, 2008. Examining predictive models of
chamise critical live fuel moisture in the Santa Monica Mountains, California. International
Journal of Wildland Fire, 17, 18-27.
Dennison, P.E., Cova, T.J., and Moritz, M.A. (2007) WUIVAC: A wildland urban interface
evacuation model applied in strategic wildfire scenarios. Natural Hazards, 41: 181-199.
VanLooy, J.A., and Cova, T.J. (2007) GIS-based indices for comparing airline flight-path
vulnerability to volcanoes. Professional Geographer , 59(1): 74-86.
Dennison, P.E. (2006) Fire detection in imaging spectrometer data using atmospheric
carbon dioxide absorption. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27: 3049-3055.
Xu B., P. Gong, E. Seto, S. Liang, C. H. Yang, S. Wen, D. C. Qiu, X. G. Gu and R.
Spear, (2006) A spatial temporal model for assessing the effects of inter-village
connectivity in schistosomiasis transmission. Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, 96(1):31-46.
Dennison, P.E. (2006) Fire detection in imaging spectrometer data using atmospheric
carbon dioxide absorption. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 3049-3055.
Dennison, P.E., K. Charoensiri, D.A. Roberts, S.H. Peterson, and R.O. Green (2006)
Wildfire temperature and land cover modeling using hyperspectral data. Remote Sensing
of Environment, 100, 212-222.
Roberts, D.A., P.E. Dennison, S. Peterson, S. Sweeney, and J. Rechel (2006) Evaluation
of AVIRIS and MODIS measures of live fuel moisture and fuel condition in a shrubland
ecosystem in southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences,
111, G04S02.
Kim, T.H., Cova, T.J., and Brunelle, A. (2006) Exploratory map animation for post-event
analysis of wildfire protective action recommendations. Natural Hazards Review, 7(1):
1-11.
Dennison, P.E., Roberts, D.A., Peterson, S.H., and Rechel, J. (2005) Use of normalized
difference water index for monitoring live fuel moisture. International Journal of
Remote Sensing, 26: 1035-1042.
Cova, T.J., Dennison, P.E., Kim, T.H., and Moritz, M.A. (2005) Setting wildfire evacuation
trigger-points using fire spread modeling and GIS. Transactions in GIS, 9(4): 603-617.
Cova, T.J. (2005) Public safety in the urban-wildland interface: Should fire-prone
communities have a maximum occupancy? Natural Hazards Review, 6(3): 99-108.
Xu B., P. Gong, G. Biging, S. Liang, E. Seto and R. Spear (2004) Snail density prediction
for schistosomiasis control using IKONOS and ASTER images. Photogrammetric Engineering
& Remote Sensing, 70(11): 1285-1294.
Cova, T.J., Sutton, P.A, Theobald, D.M. (2004) Exurban change detection in fire-prone
areas with nighttime satellite imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing,
70: 1249-1257.
Cova, T.J., and Conger, S. (2004) Transportation hazards. in Handbook of Transportation
Engineering, M. Kutz (ed.), pp. 17.1-17.24.
Cova, T.J., and Johnson, J.P. (2003) A network flow model for lane-based evacuation
routing. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 37: 579-604.
Cova, T.J. and Johnson, J.P. (2002) Microsimulation of neighborhood evacuations in
the urban-wildland interface. Environment and Planning A, 34: 2211-2229.
Radke, J., Cova, T.J., Sheridan, M.F., Troy, A., Lan, M., and Johnson, R. (2000) Application
challenges for GIScience: implications for research, education, and policy for risk
assessment, emergency preparedness and response. Urban and Regional Information Systems
Association (URISA) Journal, 12: 15-30.
Cova, T.J. (1999) GIS in emergency management. In: Geographical Information Systems:
Principles, Techniques, Applications, and Management, P.A. Longley, M.F. Goodchild,
D.J. Maguire, D.W. Rhind (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 845-858.
Finco, M., and Hepner, G.F. (1999) Industrial location comparison using a GIS-based
model of vulnerability. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 26(4): 243-252.
Finco, M., and Hepner, G.F. (1999) Environmental hazards on the US-Mexico border.
In Geosystems Today: An Interactive Casebook, R. Ford and J. Hipple (eds.), John Wiley
and Sons (New York).
Ridd, M.K. (1998) A comparison of four algorithms for change detection in an urban
environment - a remote sensing perspective. Remote Sensing of Environment, 63(2):
95-100.
Finco, M., and Hepner, G.F. (1998) Modeling agricultural nonpoint source sediment
yield in the Imperial Valley, California. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing,
64(11): 1097-1105.
Cannon, S.J., Kontuly, T., and Miller, H.J. (1998) GIS-based emergency response planning
in a Mexico/U.S. border community. Applied Geographic Studies, 2(2): 111-130.
Lowry, J.H., Miller, H.J., Hepner, G.F. (1995) A GIS-based sensitivity analysis of
community vulnerability to hazardous contaminants on the Mexico/U.S. border. Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing, 61(11): 1345-1404.
Hepner, G.F. (1995) Modeling dense gaseous contaminant pathways over complex terrain
using a geographic information system. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 42(2): 187-199.
Ridd, M. (1995) Exploring a V-I-S (vegetation-impervious surface-soil) model for urban
ecosystem analysis through remote sensing: comparative anatomy for cities. International
Journal of Remote Sensing, 16(12):2165-2185.
Emmi, P.C., and Horton, C.A. (1995)A monte-carlo simulation of error propagation in
a GIS-based assessment of siesmic risk. International Journal of Geographical Information
Systems, 9(4): 447-461.
Bowen, M., Kontuly, T., and Hepner, G.F. (1995) Estimating maquiladora hazardous waste
generation on the U.S./Mexico border. Journal of Environmental Management, 19(2):281-296.
Fisher, A. L. (1985) Voluntary labor, Utah, the L.D.S. church, and the floods of 1983: A case study. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 33(3):53-74.
Theses
Qi, Yi (2014) New physical foundations for remote sensing estimation of live fuel
moisture content and fire danger. Ph.D. dissertation (P.E. Dennison, Chair).
Klein, Korey (2014) Tracking a wildfire in areas of high relief using volunteered
geographic information: a viewshed application. M.S. Thesis (T.J. Cova, Chair).
Arnold, James (2013) Modeling climate fire connections within the Great Basin and
Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States. M.S. Thesis (P.E. Dennison and
S. Brewer, Co-chairs).
Fryer, Greg (2012) Wildland firefighter entrapment avoidance: developing evacuation
trigger points utilizing the WUIVAC fire spread model. M.S., Thesis (P.E. Dennison,
Chair).
Martineau, Eric (2012) Earthquake risk perception in Salt Lake City, Utah. M.S. Thesis
(T.J. Cova, Chair).
Matheson, Scott (2011) Evaluating the effects of spatial resolution on hyperspectral
fire detection and temperature retrieval. M.S. Thesis (P.E. Dennison, Chair).
Beaty, Mark (2010) An examination of a pixel replacement algorithm for monitoring
post-fire chaparral recovery using indices derived from AVIRIS data. M.S. Thesis (P.E.
Dennison, Chair).
Larsen, Jeremy (2010) Analysis of wildfire evacuation trigger-buffer modeling from
the 2003 Cedar Fire, California. M.S. Thesis (P.E. Dennison, Chair).
Siebeneck, Laura (2010) Examining the geographic dimensions of risk perception, communication
and response during the evacuation and return-entry process. Ph.D. Dissertation (T.J.
Cova, Chair).
Cao, Lina (2010) Anthropogenic habitat disturbance and the dynamics of hantavirus
using remote sensing, GIS, and a spatially explicit agent-based model. Ph.D. Dissertation
(T.J. Cova, Chair).
Smith, Kate (2010) Developing emergency preparedness indices for local government.
M.S. Thesis (T.J. Cova, Chair).
Van Drimmelen, Marquessa (2010) Family gathering in emergencies: the 2007 Angora Wildfire
as a case study. M.S. Thesis (T.J. Cova, Chair).
Medina, Richard (2009) Use of complexity theory to understand the geographical dynamics
of terrorist networks, Ph.D. dissertation (G.F. Hepner, Chair).
Naisbitt, Adam (2008) Avalanche frequency and magnitude: using power-law exponents
to investigate snow-avalanche size proportions through time and space. M.S. Thesis
(R.R. Forster, Chair).
Siebeneck, L.K. (2007) An assessment of the return-entry process for Hurricane Rita,
2005. M.S. Thesis (T.J. Cova, Chair).
Johnson, J.P. (2007) Microsimulation of neighborhood-scale evacuations. M.S. Thesis
(T.J. Cova, Chair).
Minton White, D. (2006) Chronic technological hazard: the case of agricultural pesticides
in the Imperial Valley, California. Ph.D. dissertation (G.F. Hepner, Chair).
Atwood, G. (2006) Shoreline superelevation: evidence of coastal processes of Great
Salt Lake, Utah. Ph.D. Disseration (K.A. Moser, Chair).
Chang, W. (2004) An activity-based approach for modeling evacuation under wildfires.
M.S. Thesis (T.J. Cova, Chair).
Bolser, J. (2004) A Development Response to Santaquin City's Natural Disasters. M.S.
Technical Report (G.F. Hepner, Chair).
Hernandez, M.W. (2004) A Procedural Model for Developing a GIS-Based Multiple Natural
Hazard Assessment: Case Study-Southern Davis County, Utah. Ph.D. Dissertation (M.K.
Ridd, Chair).
Pratt, T. (2001) Predicting Pinyon-Juniper woodland fire intensity using Landsat thematic
mapper. M.S. Thesis (M.K. Ridd, chair).
White, S.W. (2001) Geographic visualization of surficial hydrologic processes during
the 1993 Midwest floods. Ph.D. Dissertation (M.K. Ridd, Chair).
McNeally, P.B. (2000) Avalanche slide path stability modeling. M.S. Thesis, (H.J.
Miller, Chair).
Swartling, E.K. (1997) Bilingual GIS: An industrial hazards interface for the US/Mexico
border. M.S. Technical Report (G.F. Hepner, Chair).
Bishop, E.J. (1997) Application of GIS to estimate losses from surface fault rupture
Salt Lake County, Utah. M.S. Thesis (P.C. Emmi, Chair).
Cannon, S.J. (1996) Emergency response planning along the U.S.-Mexico border using
a GIS. M.S. Thesis (T. Kontuly, Chair).
Romney, J.A. (1996) Detection of abandoned mines utilizing multi-tiered remote sensing.
M.A. Thesis (M.K. Ridd, Chair).
Borgione, J.V. (1995) Network analysis and dam safety inspections in Utah. M.S. Thesis.
Bowen, M.M. (1995) Estimating maquiladora hazardous waste generation. M.S. Thesis
(T. Kontuly, Chair).
Lowry, J.H. (1994) An assessment of community vulnerability to hazardous contaminants
using a GIS. M.S. Thesis (H.J. Miller, Chair).
Horton, C.A. (1993) Earthquake risk: a GIS-based model and sensitivity analysis, Salt
Lake County, Utah. Ph.D. Dissertation (P.C. Emmi, Chair).
Poreda, S. (1992) Vegetation recovery and dynamics following the Wasatch Mountain
Fire (1990) Midway, Utah. M.S. Thesis (L. Wullstein, Chair).
Birch, T.C. (1991) Proposed seismic multi-hazard reduction plan for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints educational system's released time seminaries in
the Salt Lake Valley. M.A. Thesis (F. May, Chair).
Keate, N.S. (1991) Debris flows in southern Davis County, Utah. M.S. Thesis (F. May,
Chair).
Barnes, B.S. (1991) Hazard analysis for wildlife in the urban/wildland interface of
Emigration Canyon, Utah. M.S. Thesis (M.K. Ridd, Chair).
McCurdy, K.D. (1990) Human adjustments to snow avalanche hazards in upper Little Cottonwood
Canyon, Utah 1870-1990. M.S. Thesis. McCandless, A.G. (1986) Natural hazard assessment
of Sandy City and vicinity: a study in applied geomorphology. M.S. Thesis (M.K. Ridd,
Chair).
Williams, G.W. (1981) Geomorphic and geotechnical considerations relating to foothill development in Davis County, Utah. M.S. Thesis (M.K. Ridd, Chair).