Publications
1. Essential publications describing the MODIS fire products
1.2 Burned Area Product
2.) Essential publications describing the MODIS fire products accuracy
2.1 Active Fire Product
2.2 Burned Area Product
3) Representative fire-related papers by members of the MODIS fire team
1.) Essential publications describing the MODIS fire products
Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Justice, C.O. 2006. Global distribution and seasonality of active fires as observed with the Terra and Aqua MODIS sensors. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Vol 111, G02016, doi:10.1029/2005JG000142.
Giglio, L., Descloitres, J., Justice, C.O., Kaufman, Y. 2003. An enhanced contextual fire detection algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 87:273-282.
D.P. Roy, L. Boschetti, C.O. Justice, J. Ju, The Collection 5 MODIS Burned Area Product - Global Evaluation by Comparison with the MODIS Active Fire Product, 2008. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3690-3707
Roy, D.P., Jin, Y., Lewis, P.E., Justice, C.O. 2005. Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data.Remote Sensing of Environment, 97:137-162.
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2. Essential publications relative to the MODIS fire products accuracy
Schroeder, W., Prins, E., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Schimdt, C., Morisette, J., Morton, D. 2008. Validation of GOES and MODIS active fire detection products using ASTER and ETM+ data. Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2008) 2711–2726.
Morisette, J.T., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Setzer, A., Schroeder, W., Morton, D., Justice, C.O. 2005. Validation of MODIS active fire detection products derived from two algorithms. Earth Interactions, 9:1-23.
Roy, D.P. and Boschetti, L., 2009. Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC and GLOBCARBON Burned Area Products, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47, 4, 1032 – 1044, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009000. (PDF file, 1.4MB)
3. Representative fire-related papers by members of the MODIS fire team
2009
Archibald, S., Roy, D.P., Van Wilgen, B.W., Scholes, R.J., 2009. What Limits Fire?: An examination of drivers of burnt area in sub-equatorial Africa, Global Change Biology special issue on Fire Ecology and Climate Change, 15, 613–630, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01754.x.
Boschetti L. and Roy, D.P., 2009. Strategies for the fusion of satellite fire radiative power with burned area data for fire radiative energy derivation, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 114, D20302, doi:10.1029/2008JD011645. (PDF file, 457KB)
Giglio, L., Loboda, T., Roy, D.P., Quayle, B., Justice, C.O., 2009. An active-fire based burned area mapping algorithm for the MODIS sensor, Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 408-420. (PDF file 4.8MB)
Roy, D.P. and Boschetti, L., 2009. Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC and GLOBCARBON Burned Area Products, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47, 4, 1032 – 1044, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009000. (PDF file, 1.4MB)
2008
Boschetti, L. and Roy, D., 2008. "Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global fire inter-annual variability”, JGR-biogeosciences, vol. 113, G03020, doi:10.1029/2008JG000686, 2008.
Boschetti, L ., Roy, D. Barbosa, P., Boca, R. and Justice, C., A MODIS assessment of the summer 2007 extent burned in Greece, 2008, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29:2433-2436.
Boschetti, L., Roy, D. and Justice, C., 2008. Using NASA’s World Wind Virtual Globe for Interactive Visualization of the Global MODIS Burned Area Product, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11)3067-3072.
Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Restás, Á., Morisette, J. T., Schroeder, W., Morton, D., and Justice, C. O., 2008, Active fire detection and characterization with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3055-3063.
D.P. Roy, L. Boschetti, C.O. Justice, J. Ju, The Collection 5 MODIS Burned Area Product - Global Evaluation by Comparison with the MODIS Active Fire Product, 2008. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3690-3707
Schroeder, W., Prins, E., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Schimdt, C., Morisette, J., Morton, D. 2008. Validation of GOES and MODIS active fire detection products using ASTER and ETM+ data. Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2008) 2711–2726.
2007
Giglio, L., 2007, Characterization of the tropical diurnal fire cycle using VIRS and MODIS observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 108, 407-421.
Loboda, T. and Csiszar, I. 2007. Assessing the Risk of Ignition in the Russian Far East within a Modeling Framework of Fire Threat. Ecological Applications, 17 (3): 791-805.
Loboda, T. and Csiszar, I. 2007. Reconstruction of Fire Spread within Wildland Fire Events in Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire Product. Global and Planetary Change, 56 (3-4): 258-273 .
Roy, D.P and Justice, C.O., 2007, “A burning question – the changing role of fire on Earth” in Our Changing Planet: A View From Space, Cambridge University Press, September 30th 2007, Editors Michael D. King, Claire L. Parkinson, Kim C. Partington, Robin G. Williams, 266-273. (See http://www.cambridge.org/9780521828703). Also reprinted in Japanese, Maruzen Co., LTD, 2009.
Trigg, S.N. and Roy, D.P. 2007. A focus group study of factors that promote and constrain the use of satellite derived fire products by resource managers in southern Africa. Journal of Environmental Management, 82:95-110.
2006
Csiszar, I., J. Morisette and L. Giglio, 2006. Validation of active fire detection from moderate resolution satellite sensors: the MODIS example in Northern Eurasia. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , vol. 44, no. 7, 1757-1764.
Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Justice, C.O. 2006. Global distribution and seasonality of active fires as observed with the Terra and Aqua MODIS sensors. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Vol 111, G02016, doi:10.1029/2005JG000142.
Giglio, L., van der Werf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Collatz, G. J., and Kasibhatla, P. S. 2006. Global estimation of burned area using MODIS active fire observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6:957-974.
Justice, C.O., Giglio, L., Roy, D.P., Csiszar, I., Boschetti, L., Korontzi, S., Wooster, M. 2006. A community land Earth System Data Record (ESDR) white paper on fire. Requested by NASA.
Korontzi, S., McCarty, J., Loboda, T., Kumar, S., Justice, C.O. 2006. Global distribution of agricultural fires in croplands from 3 years of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20(2), GB2021, doi:10.1029/2005GB002529.
Korontzi, S., McCarty, J., Loboda, T. , Kumar, S., Justice, C. 2006. Global distribution of agricultural fires in croplands from 3 years of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 20, GB2021, doi:10.1029/2005GB002529.
Roy, D.P., Boschetti, L., Trigg, S. 2006. Remote Sensing of Fire Severity: Assessing the performance of the Normalized Burn Ratio. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3:112- 116.
Roy, D.P., Trigg, S.N., Bhima, R., Brockett, B., Dube, O., Frost, P., Govender, N., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Lepono, T., Macuacua, J., Mbow, C., Mhwandangara, K., Mosepele, B., Mutanga, O., Neo-Mahupeleng, G., Norman, M., Virgilo, S. 2006. The utility of satellite fire product accuracy information - perspectives and recommendations from the southern Africa fire network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Land Product Validation Special Issue, 44:1928-1930.
Roy, D.P., Lewis, P., Schaaf, C., Devadiga, S., Boschetti, L. 2006. The global impact of cloud on the production of MODIS bi-directional reflectance model based composites for terrestrial monitoring. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3:452-456.
2005
Alleaume, S., Hély, C., Le Roux, J., Korontzi, S., Swap, R.J., Shugart, H.H., Justice, C.O. 2005. Using MODIS to evaluate heterogeneity of biomass burning in southern African savannahs: A case study in Etosha. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4219 - 4237.
Csiszar, I., Denis, L., Giglio, L., Justice, C.O., Hewson, J. 2005. Global fire activity from two years of MODIS data. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14:117-130.
Jin, Y., Roy, D.P. 2005.Fire-induced albedo change and its radiative forcing at the surface in northern Australia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L13401, doi:10.1029/2005GL022822.
Korontzi, S. 2005. Seasonal patterns in biomass burning emissions from southern African vegetation fires for the year 2000.Global Change Biology, 11:1680-1700.
Morisette, J.T., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I. , Justice, C.O. 2005. Validation of the MODIS active fire product over Southern Africa with ASTER data. International Journal of Remote Sensing , 26:4239–4264.
Morisette, J.T., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Setzer, A., Schroeder, W., Morton, D., Justice, C.O. 2005. Validation of MODIS active fire detection products derived from two algorithms. Earth Interactions, 9:1-23.
Roy, D.P., Jin, Y., Lewis, P.E., Justice, C.O. 2005. Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data.Remote Sensing of Environment, 97:137-162.
Roy, D.P., Landmann, T. 2005. Characterizing the surface heterogeneity of fire effects using multi-temporal reflective wavelength data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4197-4218.
Roy, D.P., Frost, P., Justice, C.O., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Gumbo, K., Makungwa, S., Dunham, K., Du Toit, R., Mhwandagara, K., Zacarias, A., Tacheba, B., Dube, O., Pereira, J., Mushove, P., Morisette, J., Vannan, S., Davies, D. 2005. The Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) regional burned area product validation protocol. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4265-4292.
Schroeder, W., Morisette, J., Csiszar, I., Giglio, L., Morton, D., Justice, C.O. 2005. Characterizing Vegetation Fire Dynamics in Brazil Through Multi-Satellite Data: Common Trends and Practical Issues. Earth Interactions, vol. 9, paper no. 13.
Trigg, S.N., Roy, D.P., Flasse, S.P.. 2005. An in situ study of the effects of surface anisotropy on the remote sensing of burned savannah. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26:4869-4876.
2004
Chuvieco, E., Justice, C.O. 2004. Forest Fire Prevention and Assessment. Special Edition, Remote Sensing of Environment, 92(3):295-423.
Csiszar, I. , Justice, C.O., Brown, F., Cochrane, M.A., Conard, S., Frost, P.G.H., Giglio, L., Elvidge, C. , Flannigan, M.D., Kasischke, E., McCrae, D.J., McQuire, A. D., Rupp, T.S., Roy, D. P., Stocks, B.J., Verbyla, D.L. 2004. Land Use and Fires. In: Gutman, G.; Janetos, A.C.; Justice, C.O. et al. Eds., Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface, Kluwer Press.
Giglio, L., Kendall, J.D. 2004. Commentary on improving the seasonal cycle and interannual variations of biomass burning aerosol source by Generoso et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , 4:585-587.
Korontzi, S., Roy, D.P., Justice C.O., Ward D.E. 2004. Modeling and sensitivity analysis of fire emissions in southern Africa during SAFARI 2000.Remote Sensing of Environment, 92(2):255-275.
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2003
Giglio, L., Descloitres, J., Justice, C.O., Kaufman, Y. 2003. An enhanced contextual fire detection algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 87:273-282.
Giglio, L., Justice, C.O. 2003. Effect of wavelength selection on wildfire characterization using the Dozier retrieval. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24:3515-3520.
Giglio, L., Kendall, J. D., and Mack, R., 2003, A multi-year active fire data set for the tropics derived from the TRMM VIRS. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24, 4505-4525.
Ichoku, C., Kaufman, Y., Giglio, L., Li, Z., Fraser, R.H., Jin, J.-Z., Park, W.M. 2003. Comparative analysis of daytime fire detection algorithms using AVHRR data for the 1995 fire season in Canada: Perspective for MODIS. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24:1669-1690.
Kaufman, Y., Ichoku, C., Giglio, L., Korontzi, S., Chu, D.A., Hao, W.M., Li, R.-R., Justice, C.O. 2003. Fires and smoke observed from the Earth Observing System MODIS instrument: products, validation, and operational use. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24:1765-1781.
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2002
Gumbricht, T., McCarthy, T.S, McCarthy, J., Roy D.P., Frost. P.E., Wessels. K. 2002. Remote sensing to detect sub-surface peat fires and peat fire scars in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. South African Journal of Science, 98, 351-360.
Justice, C.O., Giglio, L., Korontzi, S., Owens, J., Morisette, J.T., Roy, D.P., Descloitres, J., Alleaume, S., Petitcolin, F., Kaufman, Y. 2002. The MODIS fire products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83:244-262.
Roy D.P., Lewis P.E., Justice C.O. 2002. Burned area mapping using multi-temporal moderate spatial resolution data - a bi-directional reflectance model-based expectation approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83:263-286.
2001
Giglio, L., Kendall, J. D. 2001. Application of the Dozier retrieval to wildfire characterization: A sensitivity analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 77:34-49.
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2000
Giglio, L., Kendall, J. D., and Tucker, C. J., 2000, Remote sensing of fires with the TRMM VIRS. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 203-207.
Roy, D.P. 2000. The impact of misregistration upon composited wide field of view satellite data and implications for change detection.IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38:2017-2032.Swap, R.J., Annegarn, H.J., Suttles, J.T., Haywood, J., Helmlinger, M.C., Hely, C., Hobbs, P.V., Holben, B. N., Ji, J., King, M., Landmann, T., Maenhaut, W., Otter, L., Pak, B., Piketh, S.J., Platnick, S., Privette, J., Roy, D., Thompson, A.M., Ward, D., Yokelson, R. 2002. The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): overview of the dry-season field campaign.South African Journal of Science, 98, 125-130.
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1999
Giglio, L., Kendall, J.D., Justice, C.O. 1999. Evaluation of global fire detection algorithms using simulated AVHRR infrared data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20:1947-1985.Roy, D.P., Giglio, L., Kendall, J.D., Justice, C.O. 1999. A multitemporal active-fire based burn scar detection algorithm. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 20:1031-1038.
1998
Kaufman, Y.J., Justice, C.O., Flynn, L.P., Kendall, J.D., Prins, E.M., Giglio, L., Ward, D.E., Menzel, W.P., and Setzer, A.W. 1998. Potential global fire monitoring from EOS-MODIS. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103:32,215-32,238.