Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Technical Reports

Salas EAL, Kumaran SS, Bennett R, Willis LP, Mitchell K (2024). Machine learning-based classification of small-sized wetlands using Sentinel-2 images, AIMS Geosciences, 10(1): 62–79. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Kumaran SS (2023) Hyperspectral Bare Soil Index (HBSI): Mapping Soil Using an Ensemble of Spectral Indices in Machine Learning Environment, Land, 12, 1375. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Kumaran SS (2023) Perimeter-Area Soil Carbon Index (PASCI): Modeling and estimating soil organic carbon using relevant explicatory waveband variables in machine learning environment, Geo-spatial Information Science. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK, Partee EB, Willis LP, Mitchell K (2022) Potential of mapping dissolved oxygen in the Little Miami River using Sentinel-2 images and machine learning algorithms, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment, 26: 100759. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Thiam S, Salas EAL, Houngue NR, Almoradie ADS, Verleysdonk S, Adounkpe JG, Komi K (2022) Modelling land use and land cover in the Transboundary Mono River Catchment of Togo and Benin using Markov Chain and stakeholder’s perspectives, Sustainability, 14(7):4160. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK, Slater B, Dave R, Parekh P, Zhao K, Bhattacharya B (2021) Assessing the effectiveness of ground truth data to capture landscape variability from an agricultural region using Gaussian simulation and geostatistical techniques. Heliyon, 7(7), e07439, ISSN 2405-8440 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Rabara RC, Sotto RC, Salas EAL (2020) Species distribution modeling and phenotypic diversity reveals collection gap in the Musa balbisiana germplasm conservation in Philippines. Biodiversitas, 21: 60-71. doi.org/10.13057/asianjagric/g040203 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL (2020) Waveform LiDAR concepts and applications for potential vegetation phenology monitoring and modeling: a comprehensive review. Geo-spatial Information Science, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/10095020.2020.1761763 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK (2020) Analysis of phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in the Great Miami and Little Miami basins in Ohio, USA from 2015 to 2017. River Research and Applications, 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3604 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Valdez R, Michel S, Boykin KG (2020) Response of Asiatic ibex (Capra sibirica) under Climate Change Scenarios. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 11(1): 27–37. [Download PDF]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK, Slater B, Zhao K, Bhattacharya B, Tripathy R, Das A, Nigam R, Dave R, Parekh P (2019) Mapping crop types in fragmented arable landscapes using AVIRIS-NG imagery and limited field data. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 1-24. [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK (2019) Implications of climate change on nutrient pollution: a look into the nitrogen and phosphorus loadings in the Great Miami and Little Miami watersheds in Ohio. AIMS Environmental Science, 6(3): 186–221. https://doi.org/10.3934/environsci.2019.3.186 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK (2019) Modified shape index for object-based random forest image classification of agricultural systems using airborne hyperspectral datasets. PLoS ONE, 14(3): e0213356. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213356 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Harings NM, Salas EAL, Boykin KG (2018) Inventory and synthesis of emphasis species Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument:Phase 1 & II. Center for Applied Spatial Ecology, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 23 pp.

Salas EAL, Valdez R, Michel S, Boykin KG (2018) Habitat assessment of Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) in Eastern Tajikistan: Modeling the effects of climate change. Ecology and Evolution, 2018;00:1–15. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4103 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Valdez R, Michel S (2017) Summer and winter habitat suitability of Marco Polo argali in southeastern Tajikistan: A modeling approach. Heliyon, 3(11) e00445. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00445 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Alvarez G, Dixon KW (2017) Projected Future Bioclimate-Envelope Suitability for Reptile and Amphibian Species of Concern in South Central USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 12(2), 522-547. [Download PDF]

Salas EAL, Amatya S, Henebry GM (2017). Application of Iterative Noise-adding Procedures for Evaluation of Moment Distance Index for LiDAR Waveforms. AIMS Geosciences 3(2): 187-215. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2017.2.187 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Alvarez G, Salas EAL, Harings NM, Boykin KG (2017) Projections of future suitable bioclimatic conditions of parthenogenetic whiptails. Climate, 5(2), 34. doi: 10.3390/cli5020034. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Boykin KG, Harings NM, Dixon KW (2017) Modeling the impacts of climate change on Species of Concern (birds) in South Central USA based on bioclimatic variables. AIMS Environmental Science, 4(2): 358-385. doi: 10.3934/environsci.2017.2.358. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Caldwell CA, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2016) Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. Research Completion Report. Center for Applied Spatial Ecology, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 85 pp. [Download PDF]

Salas EAL, Henebry GM (2016). Canopy Height Estimation by Characterizing Waveform LiDAR Geometry Based on Shape-Distance Metric. AIMS Geosciences 2(4): 366-390. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2016.4.366 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Valdez R, Boykin, KG (2016) Open-Access Geographic Data for the Argali Habitat in the Southeastern Tajik Pamirs. Data 1, 5, doi:10.3390/data1010005. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas, EAL, Boykin, KG, Valdez, R (2016) Multispectral and Texture Feature Application in Image-Object Analysis of Summer Vegetation in Eastern Tajikistan Pamirs. Remote Sensing 8, no. 1: 78. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Valdez R, Boykin, KG (2015) Geographic Layers as Landscape Drivers for the Marco Polo Argali Habitat in the Southeastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4 (4): 2094-2108, doi:10.3390/ijgi4042094 [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Henebry GM (2013) A New Approach for the Analysis of Hyperspectral Data: Theory and Sensitivity Analysis of the Moment Distance Method. Remote Sensing 6 (1): 20-41. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Henebry GM (2012) Separability of maize and soybean in the spectral regions of chlorophyll and carotenoids using the Moment Distance Index. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 60 (1-2): 65-76. [Download PDF via Research Gate] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL, Henebry GM (2009) Area between peaks feature in the derivative reflectance curve as a sensitive indicator of change in chlorophyll concentration. GIScience and Remote Sensing 46(3): 315-328. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL (2005) The tectonic movements’ effects to geodetic measurements (Is there a solution?). USC Graduate Journal 21: 15-23.

Kooistra L, Salas EAL, Clevers JGPW, Wehrens R, Leuven RSEW, Nienhuis PH, Buydens LMC (2004) Exploring field vegetation reflectance as an indicator of soil contamination in river floodplains. Environmental Pollution 127(2): 281-290. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Clevers JGPW, Kooistra L, Salas EAL (2004) Study of heavy metal contamination in river floodplains using the red-edge position in spectroscopic data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(19): 3883-3895. [Download PDF] [Full Text HTML]

Salas EAL (2004) Vegetation REIP for soil contamination indicator, USC Graduate Journal 20: 210-217.

Project Results and Online Datasets

Projected Future Bioclimate-Envelope Suitability for Species of Concern in South Central USA via USGS ScienceBase:

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Boykin KG, Harings NM (2017) Projected future bioclimate-envelope suitability for amphibian species in South Central USA: NCCWSC/CSC data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7B27SGV. Download datasets here.
Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Boykin KG, Harings NM (2017) Projected future bioclimate-envelope suitability for bird species in South Central USA: NCCWSC/CSC data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F76971RH. Download datasets here.
Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Boykin KG, Harings NM (2017) Projected future bioclimate-envelope suitability for mammal species in South Central USA: NCCWSC/CSC data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F72J6916. Download datasets here.
Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Boykin KG, Harings NM (2017) Projected future bioclimate-envelope suitability for reptile species in South Central USA: NCCWSC/CSC data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7XS5SJH. Download datasets here.

Preprints

Salas, EAL (2017) Vegetation Water Content Prediction: Towards More Relevant Explicatory Waveband Variables. Preprints 2017, 2017010001, doi: 10.20944/preprints201701.0001.v1. [Download PDF]

Selected Presentations

Muss JD, Aguilar-Amuchastegui N, Salas EAL, Henebry GM (2011) Discrete Lidar Pseudo-Waves Versus True Waveform lidar: Are They Fungible for Forest Structural Analyses? AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1, 0531.

Salas EAL, Aguilar-Amuchastegui N, Henebry GM (2010) Applying the Moment Distance Framework to LiDAR Waveforms. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1, 0392 [Download Poster]

Salas EAL, Schwartz MD, Henebry GM (2009) Assessing the Moment Distance Metric as an Indicator of Spring Green-up Using MODIS NBAR Data and Lilac/Honeysuckle Bloom Dates. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1, 0399. [Download PDF]

Salas EAL, Boykin KG, Valdez R (2015) Employing Moment Distance Index and Texture Components in Object-Based Image Analysis of Summer Vegetation in Eastern Tajikistan Pamirs. Remote Sensing. Poster. Fall Technical Meeting – AmericaView. Sioux Falls, SD. 23 October 2015.

Salas EAL, Boykin KG, Valdez R (2016) Multispectral and Texture Feature Application in Mapping Summer Vegetation for Marco Polo Argali in Eastern Tajikistan Pamirs. Sixteenth Annual URC Research and Creative Activities Fair, NMSU. Las Cruces, NM, USA, 30 Sept 2016.

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2017) Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. NMSU Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology Brownbag Seminar. Las Cruces, NM, USA, 12 April 2017.

Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2017) Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat in South Central, U.S. FWCE 402: SEMINAR on Natural Resources Management. Las Cruces, NM, USA. 5 May 2017.

Subburayalu S, Salas EAL, Slater B, Zhao, KG. (2018) Using AVIRIS Imagery to Map Spatial Variability of Soil Carbon Across Diverse Agricultural Management Systems. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Tour “Back to Our Roots”, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH, USA. 5 April 2018.

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK (2018) Characterizing the Gradient of the Spectral Curve for Object-Based Random Forest Image Classification Using Airborne Hyperspectral Datasets, Abstract [B31M-0381] presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., USA. 10-14 December.

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK, Slater B, Zhao KG, Bhattacharya BK, Tripathy R, Das A, Nigam R (2018) Using AVIRIS-NG Imagery to Map Agricultural Systems with Binary Classifiers and Limited Field Data, Abstract [GC13F-1921] presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., USA. 10-14 December.

Salas EAL, Subburayalu SK*, Slater B, Zhao KG, Dave R, Bhattacharya BK (2019) Assessing the reliability of ground truth data from AVIRIS-NG field campaign in India, Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting. College Park, MD, USA. 23-25 September 2019. (in-person poster presentation)

Salas EAL*, Kumaran SS, Partee EB, Willis LP, Mitchell K (2022) Using Sentinel-2 Images to Map Dissolved Oxygen in the Little Miami River in Machine Learning Environment, [H13D-02] presented at 2022 Fall Meeting, AGU, Chicago, USA. 12-16 December. (in-person oral presentation)

Salas EAL, Kumaran SS* (2022) Perimeter-Area Soil Carbon Index (PASCI): Modeling and Estimating Soil Organic Carbon Using Relevant Explicatory Waveband Variables in Machine Learning Environment, [GC54G-05] presented at 2022 Fall Meeting, AGU, Chicago, USA. 12-16 December. (online poster presentation)

Webinar Presentations

19 April 2017: Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2017) Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. South Central Climate Science Center, USGS. Link to video presentation.

20 October 2017: Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2017) Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. South Central Climate Science Center, USGS Stakeholders Meeting.

24 May 2018: Salas EAL, Seamster VA, Harings NM, Boykin KG, Muldavin E, McCollough R, Dixon KW (2018) Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. Climate Science Center (CSC) Network Seminar Series, USGS.

24 August 2018: Salas EAL, Subburayalu S, Slater B, Zhao, KG (2018) Using AVIRIS Imagery to Map Spatial Variability of Soil Carbon Across Diverse Agricultural Management Systems. NASA-ISRO Conference.

Online News Features/Awards

Phys.org News Feature (one of the largest and leading science web portals). Mapping soil health: New index enhances soil organic carbon prediction, 10 June 2024. Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-soil-health-index-carbon.html

Non-Profit Colleges (selected to be featured by the author). 15 Best Programs for a Bachelors in Geographic Information Systems, 4 January, 2024. Link: https://www.nonprofitcollegesonline.com/gis-degree

Avocado Green Magazine (Advocacy Section, selected to be featured by the author). Why We Need Wetlands, 29 August 2023. Link: https://magazine.avocadogreenmattress.com/why-we-need-wetlands

Best Paper Award Winner (2020-2021). International Journal of Image and Data Fusion (IJIDF).
The International Journal of Image and Data Fusion (IJIDF) presents the Best Paper Award once every two years from 2012, to recognize outstanding papers published in the Journal. This award is sponsored by Taylor & Francis, the publisher of the Journal. The award consists of a certificate endorsed by both the Editor-in-Chief and Taylor & Francis, along with a prize of ￡500.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tidf20/collections/best-paper-prize-image-data-fusion

The Guardian Newspaper (interviewed). Tropical forests can partially regenerate in just 20 years without human interference, 9 December 2021. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/09/tropical-forests-can-regenerate-in-just-20-years-without-human-interference

Modeling the Effects of Environmental Change on Crucial Wildlife Habitat. South Central Climate Science Center, USGS. 30 June 2017. Link: https://southcentralclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Crucial-Wildlife-Habitat-June-30-2017.pdf

Tajikistan Argali Sheep Update. Safari Club International Foundation, First For Wildlife, 15 February 2018.
*https://safariclubfoundation.org/tajikistan-argali-sheep-update/
*https://firstforwildlife.com/2018/02/15/tajikistan-argali-sheep-update/

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