While validation of the MODIS fPAR product is well behind that of the LAI product, it is recently receiving more attention. In this study, MODIS fPAR and Landsat-5 TM–derived fPAR (TM fPAR) were calculated and quantitatively compared using imagery from 2005 to 2008 for the semiarid rangelands of Idaho, USA. fPAR change maps were calculated between active growth and late-summer senescence period...

We assessed the compatibility of three Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radometer (ASTER) based Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) products generated in the GEO Grid system to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) EVI. The three products were two forms of the two-band EVI with ASTER red and NIR bands but without a blue band and the original, three-band EVI comput...

* Research supported by NASA Contract NAS5-00213. Abstract Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data are collected from the Terra satellite at a rate of 11 megabits/second. These data are to be transmitted to earth, stored, and analyzed by various algorithms. One solution to reducing the bandwidth and storage need for these data is to apply wavelet-based compression, which is k...

The diurnal cycle of land surface temperature (LST) is an important element of the climate system. Geostationary satellites can provide the diurnal cycle of LST with low spatial resolution and incomplete global coverage, which limits its applications in some studies. In this study, we propose a method to estimate the diurnal cycle of LST at high temporal and spatial resolution from clear-sky MO...

0924-2716/$ see front matter 2012 International http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.07.003 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: 3100 Monitor A Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA. Tel.: +1 405 325 E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Sheldon) In this study, we evaluate a methodology that uses dual-polarization L-band SAR 500-m mosaic PALSAR imagery to identify and map forests in the Brazilian...

1. Hu, C., B. B. Barnes, L. Qi, and A. A. Corcoran (2015). A harmful algal bloom of Karenia brevis in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico as revealed by MODIS and VIIRS: A comparison. Sensors, 15:2873-2887. 2. Hu, C., Muller-Karger, F.E., Taylor, C.,Carder, K.L., Kelble, C., Johns, E., Heil, C (2005). Red tide detection and tracing using MODIS fluorescence data: A regional example in SW Florida coa...