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Andrew Michaelis

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Software Engineer, Software Developer, Systems Administrator
NASA Ames Research Center & University Corporation Monterey
email: amac at hyperplane dot org
Mail Stop 242-4
Moffett Field, CA 94035
(650) 604-6438

Publications

Rama Nemani, Petr Votava, Andrew Michaelis, Forrest Metlon, Cristina Milesi, Collaborative Supercomputing for Global Change Science, Eos, Vol. 92, No. 13, 29 March 2011

Eric M. Danner, Forrest S. Melton, Andrew Pike, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Andrew Michaelis, Balaji Rajagopalan, Jason Caldwell, Lynn DeWitt, Steven Lindley, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, River Temperature Forecasting: A Coupled-Modeling Framework for Management of River Habitat, IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 5, NO. 6, DECEMBER 2012

WANG, W., DUNGAN, J., HASHIMOTO, H., MICHAELIS, A. R., MILESI, C., ICHII, K. and NEMANI, R. R. , Diagnosing and assessing uncertainties of terrestrial ecosystem models in a multimodel ensemble experiment: 1. Primary production. Global Change Biology, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02309.x

WANG, W., DUNGAN, J., HASHIMOTO, H., MICHAELIS, A. R., MILESI, C., ICHII, K. and NEMANI, R. R. , Diagnosing and assessing uncertainties of terrestrial ecosystem models in a multimodel ensemble experiment: 2. Carbon balance. Global Change Biology, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02315.x

L. Pierce, R. Nemani, A. Michaelis, L. Johnson, Enhancing agricultural water use efficiency. Water Efficiency Magazine, May/June 2010. (link)

Ramakrishna Nemani, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Petr Votava, Forrest Melton, Weile Wang, Andrew Michaelis, Linda Mutch, Cristina Milesi, Sam Hiatt, Michael White, Monitoring and forecasting ecosystem dynamics using the Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS), Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 113, Issue 7, Monitoring Protected Areas, 15 July 2009, Pages 1497-1509, ISSN 0034-4257, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.017.

W. Wang, K. Ichii, H. Hashimoto, A. R. Michaelis, P. Thornton, B. E. Law, R. Nemani, A hierarchical analysis of terrestrial ecosystem model Biome-BGC: Equilibrium analysis and model calibration, Ecological Modelling, Volume 220, Issue 17, 10 September 2009, Pages 2009-2023

Ichii, K., Wang, W., Hashimoto, H., Yang, F., Votava, P., Michaelis, A. R., Nemani, R. R., Refinement of rooting depths using satellite-based evapotranspiration seasonality for ecosystem modeling in California. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149, pp. 1907-1918, 2009. (pdf)

H. Hashimoto, J. L. Dungan, M. A. White, F. Yang, A. R. Michaelis, S. W. Running, R. R. Nemani, Satellite-based estimation of surface vapor pressure deficits using MODIS land surface temperature data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 112, Issue 1, 15 January 2008, pp. 142-155 (pdf)

K. Ichii, M. A. White, P. Votava, A. Michaelis, R. Nemani Evaluation of snow models in terrestrial biosphere models using ground observation and satellite data: impact on terrestrial ecosystem processes, Hydrolical Process. vol. 22, no3, 2008, pp. 347-355

F. Yang, K. Ichii, M.A. White, H. Hashimoto, A.R. Michaelis, P.Votava, A.X. Zhu, A. Huete, S. Running, and R.R. Nemani, 2007. "Developing a Continental-scale Measure of Gross Primary Production by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data through Support Vector Machine Approach," Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 109-122 (pdf)

F. Yang, M.A. White, A. Michaelis, K. Ichii and H. Hashimoto et al., Prediction of continental scale evapotranspiration by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data through Support Vector Machine, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (2006), pp. 3452–3461 (pdf)

William M. Jolly, Jonathan M. Graham, Andrew Michaelis, Ramakrishna Nemani, Steven W. Running, A flexible, integrated system for generating meteorological surfaces derived from point sources across multiple geographic scales, Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2005, Pages 873-882

Book chapters

Nemani, R., P. Votava, A. Michaelis, M. White, F. Melton, J. Coughlan, K. Golden, H. Hashimoto, K. Ichii, L. Johnson, M. Jolly, C. Milesi, R. Myneni, L. Pierce, S. Running, C. Tague, and W. Pang. 2006. Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS): Developing ecological nowcasts and forecasts by integrating surface, satellite and climate data with simulation models. In: “Research and Economic Applications of Remote Sensing Data Products" Ed.: U. Aswathanarayana, Taylor & Francis Book Series, The Netherlands. Pp. 3-20.

Conferences

Michaelis, A., Votava, P., Melton, F., Nemani, R., Wang, W., Hashimoto, H., (2010), Modeling and Analysis Compute Environments, Utilizing Virtualization Technology in the Climate and Earth Systems Science domain. presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec

Michaelis, A., Votava, P., Melton, F., Nemani, R., Wang, W., Hashimoto, H., Milesi, C., Hiatt, S. (2009), Building A Community Focused Data and Modeling Collaborative platform with Hardware Virtualization Technology, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet.

Dungan, J. L., W. Wang, H. Hashimoto, A. Michaelis, C. Milesi, K. Ichii, and R. R. Nemani. 2009. Convergence and Divergence in a Multi-Model Ensemble of Terrestrial Ecosystem Models in North America. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 14-18, San Francisco, CA.

Nemani, R. R., S. Ganguly, J. L. Dungan, F. Gao, F. S. Melton, C. Milesi, W. Wang, P. Votava, A. Michaelis, and R. B. Myneni. 2009. Mapping vegetation Leaf Area Index globally at 30m using Landsat/Global Land Survey data. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 14-18, San Francisco, CA.

Melton, F. S., R. R. Nemani, L. F. Johnson, E. Sheffner, A. Michaelis, P. Votava, S. H. Hiatt, H. Hashimoto, C. Milesi, L. Pierce, and W. Wang. 2009. Application of the NASA Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System for Optimization of Agricultural Water Use in California. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 14-18, San Francisco, CA.

Votava, P., R. R. Nemani, and A. Michaelis. 2009. Knowledge Management System for Anomaly Detection and Analysis. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 14-18, San Francisco, CA.

Milesi, C., H. Hashimoto, K. Ichii, W. Wang, A. Michaelis, F. Melton, S. Hiatt, R. Nemani. 2008, Comparing the interannual variability of NDVI of croplands over China and India for the period 1982-2006: socioeconomic versus climatic drivers of change, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC51A-0677. American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

J. Dungan,, W. Wang, A. Michaelis, R. Nemani. What factor generates greater uncertainty in predicting carbon flux for North America: climate characterization or model choice? Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B33A-0388. American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Hashimoto, H., W. Wang, F. Melton, C. Milesi, A. Michaelis, R. Nemani 2008. Initializing Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with land surface conditions from the Terrestrial Observation and PredictionSystem (TOPS). Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11E-0807. American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

F. Melton, C. Barker, B. Park, W. Reisen, A. Michaelis, W. Wang, H. Hashimoto, C. Milesi, S. Hiatt, R. Nemani. 2008. Application of Ecosystem Models to Assess Environmental Drivers of Mosquito Abundance and Virus Transmission Risk and Associated Public Health Implications of Climate and Land Use Change. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B53B-0491. American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

R. Nemani, J. Dungan, F. Melton, C. Milesi, A. Michaelis, W. Wang, H. Hashimoto. 2008. Synergistic use of MODIS and Landsat data for mapping global carbon fluxes at 30m. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC13A-0682. American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Votava, P., Nemani, R., Bowker, C., Michaelis, A., Neuschwander, A., Coughlan, J. 2002. Distributed Application Framework for Earths Science Data Processing. Proceedings of the 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toronto, Canada

Acknowledgements

Physical climate response to a reduction of anthropogenic climate forcing. (Arindam Samanta, Bruce T Anderson, Sangram Ganguly, Yuri Knyazikhin, Ramakrishna R Nemani, Ranga B Myneni). NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting 2010. (pdf)

Milesi, C., C.D. Elvidge, R.R. Nemani, and S.W. Running. 2003. Assessing the environmental impacts of human settlements using satellite data. Management of Environmental Quality, 14:99-107.

Global Landsat Processing (gls 2005 -> ledaps/6s -> (*) -> image)

gls 2005 landsat global image composite