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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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| Spatiotemporal mapping of protected agriculture and its impacts on water consumption | Villasenor-Reyes, Cecilia Irene, Solorzano, Jonathan V. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Spatiotemporal Patterns and Climate Attributions of Seasonal Stability of Vegetation Growth in Northern China | Liang, Juanzhu, Fan, Liping, Zhou, Yuke, Li, Wenfang | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Spatiotemporal patterns of surface temperature response to forest harvest in Europe | Huang, Bo, Li, Yan, Zhang, Xia, Stadler, Konstantin, Cherubini, Francesco | Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity |
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| Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Stress and Hydroclimatic Responses in the CWANA Region (20002024) | Ha, Tuyen V., Govind, Ajit, Thi, Nguyen Q., Tran, Khuong H., Hai, Nguyen K., Huy, Nguyen Q. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought in the Southwest Karst Rocky desertification zone, 19922022 | Zhang, Hanqi, Mo, Rongjian, Mo, Yanhua, Li, Rongping, Ma, Jiangming | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Seasonality changes in the terrestrial water cycle under different vegetation types and their attribution in the Songliao River Basin, Northeast China | Fei, Wenli, Shen, Lidu, Liang, Lin, Liu, Yage, Zhang, Yuan, Wang, Anzhi, Wu, Jiabing, Zhu, Ling, Cai, Rongrong, Lai, Jie | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Seasonality of the North Pacific Oligotrophic Gyre area in the past two decades and a modelling perspective for the 21st century | Meng, Siyu, Gong, Xun, Webber, Benjamin G. M., Joshi, Manoj, Ding, Xiaokun, Gong, Xiang, Gu, Mingliang, Gao, Huiwang | Chlorophyll Concentration, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll Concentrations, Phytoplankton | ||
| Synergistic importance of memory and spatial neighbourhood effects in | Liu, Jian, Zhou, Tao, Zeng, Jingyu, Zhang, Jingzhou, Wu, Xuemei, Zhang, Yajie, Zhang, Qi, Qu, Yancheng, Liu, Peixia, Zhang, Wenjuan, Tan, E, Yu, Ying, Cao, Li | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Study on Spatio-Temporal Changes and Driving Factors of Soil and Water Conservation Ecosystem Services in the Source Region of the Yellow River | Li, Xiaoqing, Zhang, Xingnian, Sheng, Keding, Zhang, Fengqiuli, Chen, Tongde, Yan, Binzu | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| Survival of a Long-Lived Avian Scavenger: Implications of Age, Season | Hudson, Spencer B., Tillman, Eric A., Wahl, Marian L., Zollner, Patrick A., Ross, Caryn D., DeVault, Travis L., Beasley, James C., NavedaRodriguez, Adrian, Rush, Scott A., Osterhoudt, Noah M., Kelly, Jeffrey F., Duerr, Adam E., Humberg, Lee A., Dunlap, Brett G., Neil, Chad, Forbes, John T., Glass, Harris, Guerrant, Travis L., Byrd, Robert W., Kavouriaris, Philip W., Darracq, Andrea K., Springer, Matthew T., Kluever, Bryan M. | Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Sustainable grazing strategies for balancing soil conservation and | Liu, Le, Chen, Yunming, Peng, Shouzhang, Han, Qinggong, Wu, Yang | Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) |
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| Runoff from Greenland's firn areawhy do MODIS, RCMs and a firn model disagree? | Machguth, Horst, Tedstone, Andrew, Kuipers Munneke, Peter, Brils, Max, Noel, Brice, Clerx, Nicole, Jullien, Nicolas, Fettweis, Xavier, van den Broeke, Michiel | Ice Velocity, Reflectance | ||
| Scalable sub-meter mapping of woody vegetation and structures across California's heterogeneous landscape using deep learning | Zhu, Yunzhe, Dixon, Dan J., Jin, Yufang | Urban Lands, Land Use/Land Cover, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Infrastructure, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Seasonal agricultural vulnerability in semi-arid Morocco: combining remote sensing and farmer knowledge to inform climate adaptation | Alvarez, Cesar Ivan, Govind, Ajit, Bollas, Anna Munoz, Waha, Katharina, Labbaci, Adnane | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Site Suitability Assessment of Native Tree Species in Angat Watershed using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making | Onte, Cheryl Jo M., Uminga, Irish Jeill N., Sta. Ana, Justin Bryan M., Manago, Carlo Angelo R., Claridades, Alexis Richard C. | Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| Snow-Covered Insights From Above and Below: High-Frequency Measurement | Griffin, D., Zhao, X., McLinden, C., Yazdani, N., Nowlan, C. R., Abad, G. Gonzalez, Fioletov, V., Galarneau, Elisabeth, Mihele, Cris, Wren, Sumi, Su, Yushan, Fehr, Lukas, Bourassa, Adam | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance |
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| Social status as a developmental process in wild vervet monkeys: beyond maternal inheritance | Vilette, Chloe, Nord, Christina M., Bonnell, Tyler R., Dostie, Marcus J., McFarland, Richard, Young, Christopher, Henzi, S. Peter, Barrett, Louise | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology | ||
| Soil hydraulic pedotransfer functions for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity: a deep symbolic regression approach with mean shift clustering | Zhang, Cheng, Wei, Zhongwang, Shangguan, Wei, Bai, Fan, Dong, Wenzong, Xiao, Qiyun, Zhao, Hongwei, Liu, Pingping, Li, Qingliang, Dai, Yongjiu | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Soil moisture buffers the impact of precipitation variability on ecosystem productivity | Wang, Huiqi, Bassiouni, Maoya, Kang, Yanghui, Rifai, Sami W., Gherardi, Laureano A., Ukkola, Anna, Keenan, Trevor F. | Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, 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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| Spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020 | Cao, Peiyu, Bilotto, Franco, Gonzalez Fischer, Carlos, Mueller, Nathaniel D., Carlson, Kimberly M., Driscoll, Avery W., Gerber, James S., Smith, Pete, Tubiello, Francesco N., West, Paul C., You, Liangzhi, Herrero, Mario | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Spatially-explicit biophysical assessment uncovered spatiotemporal | Xie, Yongjuan, Wang, Ping, Cheng, Changxiu, Meng, Zheng, Wu, Xudong | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| Spatio-temporal Analysis of Forest Degradation and Its Biomass Carbon Model in Sumatra | Zahira, Dhia Zalfa, Sakti, Anjar Dimara, Wikantika, Ketut | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity |
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| Spatial Densification of Coastal Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll via Bayesian Kriging | Vassilis, Andronis, Vassilia, Karathanassi | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Spatial distribution of and socio-ecological risk factors for | Wagnew, Fasil, Shield, Jennifer, Birtles, Suzy J., Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Gordon, Catherine, Bradbury, Richard, Muhi, Stephen, Fernando, Deepani D., Mationg, Mary Lorraine, Page, Wendy, Mahanty, Siddhartha, Rossingh, Bronwyn, Riley, Tamara, Judd, Jenni, Hoopes, Jessica, Kelso, Madeleine, Kaldor, John, Lee, Rogan, Watts, Matthew, Biggs, Beverley-Ann, Gray, Darren J. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Vegetation and Climate Impacts on Market Gardening Systems: Insights from NDVI and Participatory Data in Grand Nokoue, Benin | Azagoun, Vidjinnagni Vinasse Ametooyona, Komi, Kossi, Badou, Djigbo Felicien, Vissin, Expedit Wilfrid, Klassou, Komi Selom | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Land Surface Temperature (LST) in Urban Areas: Assessing Its Adequacy for Dengue Risk Models | Benitez, Elisabet Marina, Gomez, Ximena Porcasi, Gamba, Paolo | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Spatio-temporal patterns and drivers of fire spread and severity: a case study of an extreme wildfire in China's boreal forests | Liu, Qiming, Shen, Zehao, Zhou, Mei | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Satellite-based detection of agricultural flash droughts and associated vegetation responses in southeastern South America | Masaro, Lumila, Lovino, Miguel A, Pierrestegui, M Josefina, Muller, Gabriela V, Dorigo, Wouter | Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Reflectance, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture |
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| Satellite-Based Fraction of Available Water Reveals Soil Moisture Deficits Preceding Major Wildfires | Goffin, Benjamin D., Fernandez, Alfonso, Etchanchu, Jordi, Fang, Bin, Lakshmi, Venkataraman | Vegetation Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Skin Temperature, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Topographical Relief Maps, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, SIGMA NAUGHT |
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| Short-term PM2.5 exposure disproportionately increases pediatric ambulance dispatches among girls and children under age five in India | Kawano, Ayako, Heft-Neal, Sam, Janagama, Srinivasa Rao, Newberry, Jennifer A., Strehlow, Matthew, Bendavid, Eran | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Population | ||
| Shortening of the Arctic cold air outbreak season detected by a phenomenological machine learning approach | von der Lippe, Filip Severin, Carlsen, Tim, Storelvmo, Trude, David, Robert Oscar | Sea Ice Concentration, Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top 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, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Infrared Radiance, REFLECTED INFRARED, Visible Radiance | ||
| Sea surface temperature trends in the Aegean sea (20082024): from spatiotemporal warming patterns to a Spatial heat vulnerability index | Kuleli, Tuncay, Bayazt, Seyma | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Satellite-based species-level monitoring of mangrove phenology and climate responses using EVI and lagged environmental correlations (20132024) | Koedsin, Werapong, Pinkaew, Surachet, Chan, Jonathan Cheung-Wai, Ritchie, Raymond J., Huete, Alfredo | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Satellite-Derived NDVI Predicts Forage Availability in a Wild Ungulate | Butt, Shane, Macphie, Kirsty, Turner, Richard S., Morris, Sean J., Morris, Alison, Pakeman, Robin, Kruuk, Loeske E. B., Pemberton, J. M., Froy, H. | Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Satellite-driven modelling of NO2 and PM2.5 across Germany (2019-2024): | Miller, Rebecca, Olbrich, Jonas, Manuel, Wierer, Chen, Jia, Wurm, Michael, Alvarez, Cesar Ivan | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Transition to transpiration-dominated evapotranspiration on the Loess | Xu, Yongkang, Zuo, Depeng, Ma, Zhijin, Liu, Jifeng, Wang, Guoqing, Xu, Zongxue, Han, Yuna, Abbaspour, Karim C., Yang, Hong | Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| Validation of National and Global Satellite-Derived Products for Mapping Burned Areas in Russia | Matveev, A. M., Bartalev, S. A., Egorov, V. A., Saigin, I. A., Stytsenko, F. V., Shinkarenko, S. S. | Forests, Fire Occurrence, Reforestation, Burned Area | ||
| Validation on cloud fraction products from satellite and reanalysis data | Guo, Xiaoyang, Gong, Shaoqi, Zhang, Hailong, Li, Li, Han, Lu, Gu, Li, Li, Hua, Zhang, Hao, Liu, Qinhuo | 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 | ||
| Tracking seasonal variability in plant traits from spaceborne PRISMA and | Ji, Fujiang, Zheng, Ting, Shiklomanov, Alexey N., Yang, Ruqi, Townsend, Philip A., Li, Fa, Hao, Dalei, Dashti, Hamid, Kovach, Kyle R., You, Hangkai, Zhou, Junxiong, Chen, Min | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, 24 Hour Precipitation Amount, Snow Water Equivalent, Shortwave Radiation, Vapor Pressure |
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| Transcontinental Divergence in Soil Carbon Stock Response to Decades of Wetland Drainage | Liu, Chengzhu, Zhao, Yunpeng, Li, Xuefei, Yi, Wenxing, Pihlatie, Mari, Minkkinen, Kari, Li, Xingqi, Dai, Guohua, Luo, Wanqing, Liu, Xiaoqing, Liu, Zongguang, Dong, Bogang, Ren, Yongxing, Tuittila, EevaStiina, Vesala, Timo, Peng, Shushi, Feng, Xiaojuan | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| Understanding green house gases emission dynamics from forest fires in | Shahzad, Fahad, Mehmood, Kaleem, Anees, Shoaib Ahmad, Adnan, Muhammad, Hussain, Khadim, Khan, Waseem Razzaq, Shah, Munawar, Jamjareegulgarn, Punyawi, Oliveira, Manuela, Borges, Jose G. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Validation of flood inundation modelling using multi-source SAR imagery | Gao, Dan, Wang, Wenting, Yin, Jie, Yu, Dapeng, Lu, Yi, Yuan, Xuesong, Li, Meixuan, Yang, Yuhan | Reflectance, Total Surface Water | ||
| Uncertainty Analysis of Gross Primary Production (GPP) Remote-Sensing | Ge, Zhongxi, Qu, Yanda, Teng, Huiqin, Tang, Bo-Hui | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) |
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| Uncertainty and retrieval sensitivity in TROPOMI-based methane inversions over the North Slope of Alaska | Ward, Rebecca H., Western, Luke M., Tunnicliffe, Rachel L., Fillola, Elena, Tsuruta, Aki, Aalto, Tuula, Ganesan, Anita L. | Carbonaceous Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulates, Hydrogen Cyanide, Emissions, Non-methane Hydrocarbons/Volatile Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Fire Occurrence, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds | ||
| Use of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) observations to support Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change products: the case of the pacific coast of Ecuador | Sollier, Valentine, Frappart, Frederic, Bourrel, Luc, Ygorra, Bertrand, Normandin, Cassandra, Huaraca, Luis, Couvreur, ThomasL.P., Salameh, Edward, Baghdadi, Nicolas, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Unprecedented Amazonian rainforests damage during the 20232024 droughts | Bai, Hao, Liu, Xiangzhuo, Yang, Hui, Chave, Jerome, Ciais, Philippe, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Saatchi, Sassan, Xiao, Jingfeng, Le Toan, Thuy, Hu, Xiaomei, Yang, Ziyan, Wang, Lijun, Fan, Lei, Yao, Yitong, Chen, Xiuzhi, Liu, Yanxu, Xue, Baolin, Guo, Qinghua, Tang, Zhiyao, Liu, Hongyan, Fang, Jingyun, Tao, Shengli | Plant Phenology, Canopy Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Lidar, Topography, VEGETATION HEIGHT, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance, Anisotropy |
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| Wetland Expansion Reduces CO 2 Equivalent Emissions and Strengthens the Congo Basin's Role as a Net Carbon Sink |
Byrne, Aidan, Williams, Jake, Pettorelli, Nathalie | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Urban Computed Analysis of Asymmetric Warming and Thermal Stress in Bengaluru | Kumar, R Ashok, Harshitha, D S, Dhanush, S, Praiwal, V | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Urban greening mitigates surface warming induced by urbanization in | Liu, Feng, Wang, Lunche, Cao, Qian, Gu, Xihui, Xiao, Wen, Zhang, Xiang, Gao, Jun, Zheng, Liang, Zhang, Zixin | Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity |
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| Urban Heat Island in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: MultiCity Approach in Regional Climate Modelling | Constantinidou, Katiana, Hadjinicolaou, Panos, Tzyrkalli, Anna, Zittis, George, Lelieveld, Jos | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity |
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