Publications

2008

Boschetti, L., Roy, D. and Justice, C., Using NASA’s World Wind Virtual Globe for Interactive Visualization of the Global MODIS Burned Area Product, 2008, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11)3067-3072

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.

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.

Loboda, T., Modeling Fire Danger in Data-Poor Regions: A case study from the Russian Far East.  International Journal of Wildland Fire, in press

McCarty, J., Loboda, T. , Trigg, S.,  A hybrid approach to quantifying crop residue burning in the US based on burned area and active fire data.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture, in press

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, Remote Sensing of Environment, in press

Boschetti, L. and Roy, D., "Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global fire inter-annual variability”, JGR-biogeosciences, in press

2007

Loboda , T., O'Neal, K.J., Csiszar, I. 2007. Regionally adaptable dNBR based algorithm for burned area mapping from MODIS data.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 109: 429-442 .

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 .

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

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.

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.

Loboda, T., Csiszar, I. Reconstruction of fire spread within wildland fire events in Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire Product. Global and Planetary Change, In Press.

Loupian, E.A., Mazurov, A.A., Flitman, E.V., Ershov, D.V., Korovin, G.N., Novik, V.P., Abushenko, N.A., Altyntsev, D.A., Koshelev, V.V., Tashchilin, S.A., Tatarnikov, A.V., Csiszar, I., Sukhinin, A.I., Ponomarev, E.I., Afonin, S.V., Belov, V.V., Matvienko, G.G., Loboda, T. 2006. Satellite monitoring of forest fires in Russia at federal and regional levels. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 11:113-145.

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

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.

2003

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.

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