Publications

The publications listed below are based on research undertaken using MODIS fire products. The list was compiled to provide users with examples of how the data are being used as well as studies that provide accuracy assessments or validate the use of the MODIS active fire product. It is not an exhaustive list and if you would like to recommend other publications to be added to this list, please contact us

2008

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.

Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia. 2008. Published by WWF.

How Unilever Palm Oil Suppliers are Burning up Borneo. 2008. Published by GreenPeace.

2007

Nangoma, D., Bayliss, J. 2007. The First use of the MODIS RAPID RESPONSE (MRR) Fire Alert System on Mount Mulanje, Malawi. A journal of Malawi Natural History and Conservation. Published by Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi. Vol 24, ISSN 0251-1924.

Langner, A., Miettinen, J., Siegert, F. 2007. Land cover change 2002–2005 in Borneo and the role of fire derived from MODIS imagery.Global Change Biology (2007) 13, 2329–2340, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01442.x

Dlamini, W., Swaziland National Trust Commission. 2007. Review of Swaziland fire disaster using GIS and MODIS data. GPS Technical.

Witham, C., Manning, A. 2007. Impacts of Russian biomass burning on UK air quality. Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 8075–8090

He, Liming, et al. Evaluation of the Agricultural Residues Burning Reduction in China using MODIS Fire Product, 2007, Environmental Monitoring in China, Vol.23, No.1: 42-50.

Stohl, A., Berg, T.,Burkhart, j.f., Fjaeraa, A.M., Forster, C., Herber, A., Hov, O., Lunder, C., McMillan, W.W., Oltmans, S., Shiobara, M., Simpson, D., Solberg, S., Stebel, K., Strom, J., Torseth, K.,Treffeisen, R.,Virkkunen, K., Yttri, K.E. 2007. Arctic smoke – record high air pollution levels in the European Arctic due to agricultural fires in Eastern Europe in spring 2006. Published by Copernicus GmbH on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 511–534, 2007

2006

Csiszar, I., Morisette J., and Giglio,L. 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.

Fire management- Global Assessment 2006. A thematic study prepared in the framework of the Global Forest Resource Assessment 2005. FAO Forestry Paper 151.

Wiedinmyer, C., Quayle, B., Geron, C., Belote, A., Mckenzie, D., Zhang, X., O'Neill, S.,Wynne, K.K. 2006. Estimating emissions from fires in North America for air quality modeling. Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 3419–3432.

2005

Miettinen, J., Langner, A., Siegert, F. 2005 . Burnt area estimation for the year 2005 in Borneo using multi-resolution satellite imagery. International Journal ofWildland Fire, 2007, 16, 45–53

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.

Morisette J., Csiszar, I., Giglio,L., Justice, C.O. 2005. Validation of the MODIS active fire product over Southern Africa with ASTER data. International Journal of Remote Sensing
Vol. 26, No. 19, 10 October 2005, 4239–4264.

2004

Eva, H.D., Gregoire, J.-M., Mayaux, P. 2004. Support for management in Africa's Protected Areas. The contribution of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.EUR 21296 EN.

Niemi, J.V., Tervahattu, H., Vehkamaki, H., Kulmala, M., Koskentalo, T., Sillanpaa, M., Rantamaki, Minna. 2004. Characterization and source identification of a fine
particle episode in Finland
. Atmospheric Environment 38 (2004) 5003–5012.

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.

2002

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.

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.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Cooperative Agreement No. NNS06AA04A issued through the Decision Support Program and from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 
  
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