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Publications Citing MODIS Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).
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| Machine learning data fusion for high spatio-temporal resolution | Porcheddu, Andrea, Kolehmainen, Ville, Lahivaara, Timo, Lipponen, Antti | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps | ||
| Machine Learning for Predicting Spatially Variable Lateral Hydraulic | Ali, Awad M., Imhoff, Ruben O., Weerts, Albrecht H. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) | ||
| Machine Learning Insights for Fire Impacts on Snow Disappearance Predictability in Northern California | Mohanty, Yashnil, Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Ronnie, He, Cenlin, McGrath, Daniel | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Snow Melt, Snow Melt |
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| Land change, fire, and climate weaken carbon sink in the conterminous United States | Liu, Jinxun, Sleeter, Benjamin M., Zhu, Zhiliang, Cochrane, Mark A., Zhou, Qiang, Wang, Bin, Domke, Grant M., Selmants, Paul C., Windham-Myers, Lisamarie, Zhu, Qiuan, Wilson, Tamara S., Byrd, Kristin B., Ward, Eric J., Sohl, Terry L., Hawbaker, Todd J., Zhang, Zhen, Soulard, Christopher E., Wickland, Kimberly P., Striegl, Robert G. | Biomass, Forests, Grasslands, Alpine/Tundra, Litter Characteristics, Carbon | ||
| Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through | An, Qiang, Liu, Liu, Staal, Arie, Yang, Kun, Cheng, Yongming, Liu, Jing, Huang, Guanhua | Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation, Snow/Ice, Snow Depth, Snow Melt, Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Land Quality Assessment with Feature Ranking of a Geospatial Datacube in Google Earth Engine: Case Study of Kryvyi Rih Region | Andreiev, A., Chakri, A., Rodrigues, J. C. A., Kozlova, A., Lyubchyk, S. | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Land quality degradation exacerbates the impact of drought on vegetation in Northeast China | Gao, Shenghang, Huang, Shengzhi, Guo, Hui, Yan, Haokui, Zhang, Lin, Li, Yifei, Guo, Wenwen, Zhu, Xueying, Ling, Hongbo, Ma, Ling, Tao, Wanghai, Leng, Guoyong, Huang, Qiang | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| Land Snow Surface Temperature Estimation Using an Optimized Near Real-Time Passive Microwave Algorithm | Li, Qinghuan, Kelly, Richard, Leppanen, Leena | Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Low Cloud-SST Variability over the Summertime Subtropical Northeast | Miyamoto, Ayumu, Xie, Shang-Ping | Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Emitted Radiation, Emissivity, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance, Transmittance, Atmospheric Stability, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Asymmetry, Cloud Ceiling, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Cloud Emissivity, Cloud Radiative Forcing, Cloud Reflectance, Rain Storms, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Lower carbon uptake rates resulting from converting wooded Cerrado to | Zhao, Yuqing, Holl, David, Anache, Jamil A.A., Kobayashi, Alex N.A., Wendland, Edson | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Lower Tropospheric Response to Local Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: | Borgnino, M., Desbiolles, F., Meroni, A. N., Pasquero, C. | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Land Use Change and Its Climatic and Vegetation Impacts in the Brazilian Amazon | Justino, Servio Tulio Pereira, da Silva, Richardson Barbosa Gomes, Silva, Rafael Barroca, Simoes, Danilo | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| Land Use Change Forcing Data Undermine the Modeling of China's Greening | Wang, Ziyu, Zhao, Weiqing, Cao, Sen, Zhao, Pengjun, Luo, Yuhang, Li, Dajing, Sun, Ziyun, Zhu, Zaichun | Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Land Use Changes and Their Driving Factors in the Liuchong River Basin Based on the Geographical Detector Model | Xixi, Xue, Ya, Luo, Mengyao, Liao, Shuang, Zhao, Chunchang, Zhang, Xiaoke, Liang | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Land surface temperature retrieval from FY-3E/MERSI using an optimized | Liu, Weihan, Cheng, Jie, Dong, Lixin | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Land surface temperature variability and climate change assessment for Ludhiana's tehsils using google earth engine | Kochhar, Aarti, Patel, Shashikant, Gupta, Ritika, Dhaliwal, Manveer Kaur, Pateriya, Brijendra | Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Land surface temperatures outperform gridded air temperatures in modeling forest growth across the Northern Hemisphere | Yang, Feiyu, Xiong, Yujiu, Wang, Wenjin, Hu, Hongxing, Lai, Mantik, Zhang, Chao, Cao, Jiahao, Zhu, Leyao, Fan, Qibo, Zhao, Ying, Wang, Zhou, Zhang, Yaling, Liang, Hanxue, Qin, Li, Zhang, Tongwen, Cherubini, Paolo, Qiu, Guo Yu, Huang, Jian-Guo | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Light use efficiency model based on chlorophyll content better captures seasonal gross primary production dynamics of deciduous broadleaf forests | Yang, Rongjuan, Liu, Ronggao, Liu, Yang, Chen, Jingming, Xu, Mingzhu, He, Jiaying | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity | ||
| Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of fuel sulfur emissions | Wright, Chris J., Thornton, Joel A., Jaegle, Lyatt, Cao, Yang, Zhu, Yannian, Liu, Jihu, Jones II, Randall, Holzworth, Robert, Rosenfeld, Daniel, Wood, Robert, Blossey, Peter, Kim, Daehyun | Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), Atmospheric Emitted Radiation, Emissivity, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance, Transmittance, Clouds, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Precipitable Water, Cloud Asymmetry, Cloud Ceiling, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Cloud Emissivity, Cloud Radiative Forcing, Cloud Reflectance, Cloud Types, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Skin Temperature |
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| Lightning-ignited wildfire prediction in the boreal forest of northeast | Gao, Cong, Shi, Chunming, Li, Jinbao, Li, Junran, Zhang, Xu, Huang, Xinyan, Shi, Fangzhong, Yang, Jing, Bai, Ye, Liu, Xiaodong | Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Ground Water, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area | ||
| Late spring frost delays tree spring phenology by reducing | Wang, Jinmei, Hua, Hao, Guo, Jing, Huang, Xu, Zhang, Xin, Yang, Yuchuan, Wang, Danying, Guo, Xiali, Zhang, Rui, Smith, Nicholas G., Rossi, Sergio, Penuelas, Josep, Ciais, Philippe, Wu, Chaoyang, Chen, Lei | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Latest 40-year afforestation efforts sustained ecological restoration in the breadbasket of the Tibetan Plateau | Zhao, Wei, Xie, Xinyao, Liu, Liyang, Shen, Miaogen, Yue, Yuemin, Tarolli, Paolo, Wang, Xiaodan, Li, Zhao-Liang | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| Latin Hypercube Sampling improves estimation of the GEDI-based forest canopy height: a case study in Jiangxi Province, China | Shu, Yanming, Zhang, Shaoyu, Luo, Yichen, Yu, Jun, Chen, Jin, Qi, Shuhua, Ge, Yong | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Latitudinal and Seasonal Asymmetry in Land Surface Temperature Responses | Cheng, Yongming, An, Qiang, Liu, Liu, Zhang, Yuxiang, Li, Hao, Liu, Xingcai, Huang, Guanhua | Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| Long-term spatial and temporal patterns of lake surface water extent in | Phoesri, Tatsaneewan, Shrestha, Sangam, Padedda, Bachisio Mario, Tripathi, Nitin Kumar, Das, Pratyush Kumar, Kongwarakom, Siwat, Virdis, Salvatore Gonario Pasquale | Reflectance, Total Surface Water |
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