Publications

The publications listed below describe FIRMS, the MODIS Active Fire and Burned Area Products and explore the level of accuracy of the products.

Read about how near real-time MODIS fire detections are used in the NASA Sensing Our Planet publication, Orbiting Watchtowers.

FIRMS, Active Fire and Burned Area

Justice, C. O., L. Giglio, et al. 2011. MODIS-Derived Global Fire Products. Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. B. Ramachandran, C. O. Justice and M. J. Abrams, Springer New York. 11: 661-679. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6749-7_29.

Davies, D.K., Ilavajhala, S., Wong, M.M. and Justice, C.O. 2009. Fire Information for Resource Management System: Archiving and Distributing MODIS Active Fire Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscienceand Remote Sensing 47 (1):72-79. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2008.2002076.

Schroeder, W., Prins, E., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Schimdt, C., Morisette, J. and 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. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.005.

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 Geoscienceand Remote Sensing 44 (7): 1757-1764. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2006.875941.

Giglio, L., van derWerf, G. R., Randerson, J. T., Collatz, G. J., and Kasibhatla, P. 2006. Global estimation of burned area using MODIS active fire observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 6:957-974. doi:10.5194/acp-6-957-2006.

Wooster, M. J., G. Roberts, G. L. W. Perry, and Y. J. Kaufman. 2005. Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiativepower observations: FRP derivation and calibration relationships between biomass consumption and fire radiativeenergy release. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, D24311. doi:10.1029/2005JD006318.

Morisette, J. T., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., Setzer, A., Schroeder, W., Morton, D., and Justice, C. O. 2005. Validation of MODIS active fire detection products derived from two algorithms. Earth Interactions 9(9):1-25. doi: 10.1175/EI141.1.

Morisette, J. T., Giglio, L., Csiszar, I., and 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. doi:10.1080/01431160500113526.

Giglio, L., Descloitres, J., Justice, C. O. and Kaufman, Y. 2003. An enhanced contextual fire detection algorithm for MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment 87:273-282. doi: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00184-6.

Justice, C. O., Giglio, L., Korontzi, S., Owens, J., Morisette, J., Roy, D., Descloitres, J., Alleaume, S., Petitcolin, F. and Kaufman, Y. J. 2002. The MODIS fire products. Remote Sensing of Environment 83:244-262. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00076-7.