MODIS ACTIVE FIRE AND BURNED AREA PRODUCTS

Publications

Essential Publications Describing the MODIS Fire Products

Active Fire Products

• Giglio, L., Schroeder, W., and Justice, C. O., 2016, The Collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178:31-41.
• 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, 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.

Burned Area Products

• Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., Roy, D. P., Humber, M. L., and Justice, C. O., 2018, The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 217:72-85.
• 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.
• 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.

Publications by Year

2022

• Humber, M., Zubkova, M., and Giglio, L., 2022, A remote sensing-based approach to estimating the fire spread rate parameter for individual burn patch extraction. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43:649–673. (link)

2021

• Hall, J. V., Argueta, F., and Giglio, L., 2021, Validation of MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 cropland burned area mapping in Ukraine. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 102:102443. (link)
• Hall, J. V., Zibtsev, S. V., Giglio, L., Skakun, S., Myroniuk, V., Zhuravel, O., Goldammer, J. G., and Kussul, N., 2021, Environmental and political implications of underestimated cropland burning in Ukraine. Environmental Research Letters, 16:064019. (link)
• Zubkova, M., Giglio, L., Humber, M. L., Hall, J. V., and Ellicott, E., 2021, Conflict and climate: Drivers of fire activity in Syria in the twenty-first century. Earth Interactions, 25:119–135. (link)

2020

• Humber, M., Boschetti, L., and Giglio, L., 2020, Assessing the shape accuracy of coarse resolution burned area identifications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58:1516–1525. (link)

2019

• Boschetti, L., Roy, D. P., Giglio, L., Huang, H., Zubkova, M., and Humber, M. L., 2019, Global validation of the collection 6 MODIS burned area product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 235:111490. (link)
• Zubkova, M., Boschetti, L., Abatzoglou, J. T., and Giglio, L., 2019, Changes in fire activity in Africa from 2002 to 2016 and their potential drivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 46:1–11. (link)

2018

• Giglio, L., Boschetti, L., Roy, D. P., Humber, M. L., and Justice, C. O., 2018, The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product. Remote Sensing of Environment, 217:72-85. (link)
• Humber, M. L., Boschetti, L., Giglio, L., and Justice, C. O., 2018, Spatial and temporal intercomparison of four global burned area products, International Journal of Digital Earth, doi:10.1080/17538947.2018.1433727. (link)

2016

• Boschetti, L., Stehman, S. V., and Roy, D. P., 2016, A stratified random sampling design in space and time for regional to global scale burned area product validation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 186:465-478.
• Giglio, L., Schroeder, W., and Justice, C. O., 2016, The Collection 6 MODIS active fire detection algorithm and fire products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178:31-41. (link)

2014

• Giglio, L., and Schroeder, W., 2014, A global feasibility assessment of the bi-spectral fire temperature and area retrieval using MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 152:166-173. (link)

2010

• Boschetti, L., Roy, D. P., Justice, C. O., and Giglio, L., 2010, Global assessment of the temporal reporting accuracy and precision of the MODIS burned area product. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19:705-709.

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, 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, 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., Restas, A., 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, 112:2711-2726.

2007

• Giglio, L., 2007, Characterization of the tropical diurnal fire cycle using VIRS and MODIS observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 108:407-421.
• 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.
• 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, 44(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, 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.
• 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, 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. 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

• 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.

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.

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.

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.