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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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| Water Functional Zoning Framework Based on Machine Learning: A Case | Liu, Wei, Sun, Yuanzhuo, Deng, Fuliang, Wu, Bo, Zhang, Xiaoyan, Sun, Mei, Li, Lanhui, Li, Hui, Yuan, Ying | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| Water scarcity indicator based on GRACE derived total water storage for fast water scarcity monitoring | Wolkeba, Fitsume T., Mekonnen, Mesfin M., Brauman, Kate A. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Waterfowl Move Less in Heterogeneous and Human-Populated Landscapes | Teitelbaum, Claire S., Prosser, Diann J., Ackerman, Joshua T., Ahmed, Sakib, Alam, A. B. M. Sarowar, Azmiri, Kazi Zenifar, Batbayar, Nyambaya, Bety, Joel, BlakeBradshaw, Abigail, Boiko, Dmitrijs, Buitendijk, Nelleke H., Buler, Jeffrey J., Cabot, David, Casazza, Michael L., Cohen, Bradley, Davaasuren, Batmunkh, Farau, Sebastien, Feddersen, Jamie, Fieberg, John, Fiedler, Wolfgang, Glazov, Peter, Griffin, Larry R., Guillemain, Matthieu, Hagy, Heath, Hardy, Matthew J., Highway, Cory, Hoffman, David, Kang, Tehan, Keever, Allison, Kilburn, Jennifer, Kolzsch, Andrea, Kruckenberg, Helmut, Laaksonen, Toni, Ladman, Brian S., Lee, Hansoo, Lee, Siwan, Lefebvre, Josee, Legagneux, Pierre, Linssen, Hans, Madsen, Jesper, Masto, Nicholas M., McWilliams, Scott, Mezebish Quinn, Tori, Mitchell, Carl, Moreau, Axelle, Muskens, Gerhard, Newman, Scott, Nolet, Bart A., Nuijten, Rascha J. M., Osenkowski, Jay, Overton, Cory T., Piironen, Antti, Plaquin, Betty, Ramey, Andrew M., Rodrigue, Jean, Rodrigues, David, Schreven, Kees H. T., Si, Yali, Sullivan, Jeffery D., Takekawa, John, Thomas, Philippe J., van Toor, Marielle, Waldenstrom, Jonas, Williams, Christopher K., Wolfson, David W., Xu, Fei, Brosnan, Ian G., De La Cruz, Susan E. W. | Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) |
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| Weakening mountain vegetation aspect asymmetry due to altered energy conditions | Tian, Qing, Tian, Feng | Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) |
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| Weakening vegetation control on global terrestrial evapotranspiration in a warmer world | Li, Hongbin, Wang, Weiguang, Chen, Zefeng, Li, Xiaolei, Mura, Matteo, Teuling, Adriaan J., Cescatti, Alessandro, Forzieri, Giovanni | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Two critical radii dominate phytoplankton response to marine heatwaves in the South China Sea | Liu, Zhenxia, Zhao, Binru, Du, Pei, Dai, Yanhui, Luo, Wen, Yuan, Linwang, Yu, Zhaoyuan | Chlorophyll Concentration, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll Concentrations, Phytoplankton | ||
| Two decades of agricultural drought impacts: remote sensing insights into vegetation productivity and phenological change in semi-arid Botswana | Akinyemi, Felicia O., Graw, Valerie | Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) | ||
| Updates in assessing soil organic carbon and their implications for evaluating land use change emissions | Benavidez-Brouk, Lauren, Taheripour, Farzad, Baldos, Uris, Zhuang, Qianlai, Chen, Shuo | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Upper-Ocean Thermal Rejuvenation Within the Typhoon Inactivity Duration | Li, Zhengbao, Zheng, Zhaofeng, Wang, Zixuan, Ju, Xia, Song, Zhuanling, Su, Ruitong, Sun, Kang, Hu, Xiaomin, Sun, Jia | Sea Surface Foundation Temperature | ||
| Upslope and downslope vegetation expansions on the warming and wetting QinghaiTibet Plateau | Ji, Hailong, Nan, Zhuotong, Chen, Yuhong, Zhao, Shuping | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Uncovering the importance of spatiotemporal resolution in | Kong, Juwon, Ryu, Youngryel, Dechant, Benjamin, Jeong, Sungchan, Kim, Jongmin, Lee, Kyungdo, Ku, Bonil, Houborg, Rasmus | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Unveiling the ecology and spatial dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi, its DTUs and Triatoma vitticeps in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Espirito Santo State, Brazil | Testai, Raphael, de Oliveira, Felipe, Dario, Maria Augusta, Quinze Dias de Faro de Oliveira, Ane Luise, de Mello, Flavio Luis, Jansen, Ana Maria, Xavier, Samanta Cristina das Chagas | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Understanding the Dynamics of RecordShattering Compound DroughtHeatwave Events and Their Impacts on Ecosystems | Li, Bohao, Liu, Kai, Wang, Ming, Yang, Yuanhang, He, Mingzhu, Wang, Yanfang, Li, Chenxia, Wang, Di | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| Warm and wet spring compensated for the reduction in carbon sinks due to | Zhang, Yuanyuan, Jiang, Fei, Zhou, Yanlian, Dong, Guanyu, Wu, Dongqiao, He, Wei, Wang, Jun, Wu, Mousong, Wang, Hengmao, Zhang, Lingyu, Jia, Mengwei, Ju, Weimin, Chen, Jing M. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Carbon Flux | ||
| Warmer climate disrupts the trade-off between post-fire loss and recovery of grassland GPP | Cui, Guishan, Ding, Yitong, Xu, Zhen | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area |
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| What is the (real) rate of soil health practice adoption? Making sense of three data sources | McGill, Bonnie M., Hively, W. Dean, Puntel, Laila A., Shriver, John, Thieme, Alison N., Manter, Daniel K., Moore, Jennifer M. | Reflectance | ||
| When Do Riverine Systems Feel the Burn? Simulating How Burn Extent and Severity Modulate Hydrologic Controls on Biogeochemical Export | Wampler, K. A., MyersPigg, A. N., Kang, H., Regier, P., Scheibe, T. D., Bladon, K. D. | Maximum/Minimum Temperature, 24 Hour Precipitation Amount, Snow Water Equivalent, Shortwave Radiation, Vapor Pressure, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux |
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| Widespread biophysical cooling effects due to post-fire greening | Xi, Huipeng, Wang, Qunming, Xiao, Yuelong, Guo, Ru, Tong, Xiaohua, Atkinson, Peter M. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Albedo, Anisotropy, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity |
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| Widespread ecological responses and cascading effects of the 2021 western North American heatwave | Baum, Julia K., Slein, Margaret A., Garen, Josef C., Sang, Zihaohan, Emry, Sandra, Goodwin, Katie J. A., Collins, Courtney G., Lewthwaite, Jayme, Tseng, Michelle, Michaletz, Sean T., Burton, A. Cole, Harley, Christopher D. G., Srivastava, Diane S., Abram, Paul K., Angert, Amy L., Bayne, Erin, Daniels, Lori D., Dickson-Hoyle, Sarah, Earle, Heather, Franklin, Michelle T., Gehman, Alyssa-Lois M., Gharajehdaghipour, Tazarve, Hodder, Dexter, Leston, Lionel, McAfee, Alison, Mitchell, Matthew G. E., Otter, Ken A., Richardson, Tamara, Rosenfeld, Jordan, Sadlier-Brown, Gillian, Sandoval-Acuna, Pablo, Shores, Carolyn, Starko, Samuel, Thiessen, Jason, Timmer, Brian, Tjaden-McClement, Katie, Tseng, Sunny, Uriel, Yonathan, William, Bert | Snow Cover | ||
| Variation of bioenergy efficiency of Arundo donax L. growing in northern and middle Egypt | Kassem, Hesham M., Ali, Hamada E., Arnous, Mohamed O., Zaghloul, Mohamed S. | Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| Vegetation cover dynamics of the Dniester basin under climate change influence in the 21st century. | Salyha, Volodymyr, Arkhypova, Liudmyla | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| 100 m soil landscape grids of Canada | Geng, Xiaoyuan, He, Juanxia, Grima, Victoria, Jiang, Yefang, Tetreau, Maggi, Crittenden, Stephen, Kiley, Simon, VandenBygaart, Albert. J., Vanrobaeys, Jason | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (20162023) | Zhang, Zhanhao, Fang, Shibo, Han, Jiahao | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness | ||
| A dataset of annual surface water extent in the Xijiang River Basin from 1986 to 2023 | YAO, Deke, JIA, Guoqiang, QIU, Yubao | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| A diagnostic intercomparison of modeled ozone dry deposition over North America and Europe using AQMEII4 regional-scale simulations | Hogrefe, Christian, Galmarini, Stefano, Makar, Paul A., Kioutsioukis, Ioannis, Clifton, Olivia E., Alyuz, Ummugulsum, Bash, Jesse O., Bellasio, Roberto, Bianconi, Roberto, Butler, Tim, Cheung, Philip, Hodzic, Alma, Kranenburg, Richard, Lupascu, Aurelia, Momoh, Kester, Perez-Camanyo, Juan Luis, Pleim, Jonathan E., Ryu, Young-Hee, San Jose, Roberto, Schaap, Martijn, Schwede, Donna B., Sokhi, Ranjeet | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| A Dynamically Updated Dust Source Function for Dust Emission Scheme: Improving Dust Aerosol Simulation on an East Asian Dust Storm | Tan, Chenghao, Liu, Chong, Li, Tian, Luan, Zhaopeng, Tang, Mingjin, Zhao, Tianliang | Snow Cover | ||
| A field and remote sensing assessment of rates and drivers of tree cover loss in island catchments: variation in global model accuracy | Metherall, Nicholas, Beavis, Sara, Naikatini, Alivereti, Wales, Nathan, Holland, Elisabeth, Waqa-Sakiti, Hilda, Tuiwawa, Marika | Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area | ||
| A first attempt to model global hydrology at hyper-resolution | van Jaarsveld, Barry, Wanders, Niko, Sutanudjaja, Edwin H., Hoch, Jannis, Droppers, Bram, Janzing, Joren, van Beek, Rens L. P. H., Bierkens, Marc F. P. | Vegetation Cover, Cropland | ||
| A Flexible Snow Model (FSM 2.1. 1) including a forest canopy | Essery, Richard, Mazzotti, Giulia, Barr, Sarah, Jonas, Tobias, Quaife, Tristan, Rutter, Nick | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance | ||
| A comprehensive environmental analysis of olive oil production in | Di Loreto, Maria Vittoria, Lago-Olveira, Sara, Di Noia, Nicola, Vollero, Luca, Pennazza, Giorgio, Santonico, Marco, Gonzalez-Garcia, Sara | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| A comprehensive study on heavy pollution episode over urban city Hyderabad using observations and WRF-CAMx simulations | Ramesh Reddy, T.V., Narayana Rao, T., Jayachandran, V., Satheesh Kumar, S. | 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 | ||
| A coupled machine-learning and sensitivity analysis framework to link | Hosseinipoor, Mahdi, Danesh-Yazdi, Mohammad | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness |
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| 2022 McKinney rain-on-wildfire event, dissolved oxygen sags, and a fish kill on the Klamath River, California | Curtis, Jennifer A., Johnson, Grant S., Cahill, Josh D., Genzoli, Laurel, Dahm, Cliff N., Schenk, Liam N., Oberholzer, John R. | Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area | ||
| 3-D Flood mapping from SWOT observations during extreme rainfall: a case study of Gangnan Reservoir | Yao, Jiaqi, Wang, Mengran, Xu, Nan, Liu, Tong, Mo, Fan, Li, Xue, Cao, Yongqiang, Chen, Kebing, Sun, Jinyan, Lu, Hui | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Rivers/Streams, Surface Water Processes/Measurements, Lakes/Reservoirs | ||
| 36-Year Surge Behaviors of the Sortebr Glacier Complex in East Greenland, Revealed by Multi-Source Satellite Images | Yuan, Xiaohan, Sun, Zixiang, Qiao, Gang | Albedo, Snow/Ice Temperature, Surface Melt, Water Vapor | ||
| A Comparative Analysis of Remotely Sensed and High-Fidelity ArcSWAT Evapotranspiration Estimates Across Various Timescales in the Upper Anthemountas Basin, Greece | Sevastas, Stefanos, Siarkos, Ilias, Mallios, Zisis | Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| A 25-year assessment of aerosol dynamics and environmental drivers in Iran's Lakes and wetlands | Ebrahimi-Khusfi, Zohre, Samadi-Todar, Seyed Arman, Okati, Narjes, Kaskaoutis, Dimitris G. | Reflectance | ||
| A 30-m annual paddy rice dataset in Northeastern China during period 20002023 | Hou, Dawei, Chen, Jing, Dong, Jinwei, Ji, Chao, Feng, Jingxuan, Du, Guoming, Yang, Lixiao | Reflectance | ||
| A 30-meter resolution global land productivity dynamics dataset from 2013 to 2022 | Li, Xiaosong, Shen, Tong, Garcia, Cesar Luis, Teich, Ingrid, Chen, Yang, Chen, Jin, Kabo-Bah, Amos Tiereyangn, Yang, Ziyu, Jia, Xiaoxia, Lu, Qi, Nyamtseren, Mandakh | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Reflectance |
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| A Bayesian information theoretic approach to assessing stomatal conductance dynamics in a perennial agricultural crop | Ring, Noah L., Brunsell, Nathaniel A. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) | ||
| A comparison of drought indices for crop yield loss detection: The role | Holwerda, Friso, Salazar-Martinez, Diego, Holmes, Thomas R.H., Hain, Christopher R., Anderson, Martha C. | Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Phenology, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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| A comparison of machine learning algorithms for predicting gross primary | Agarwal, Geetika, Deb Burman, Pramit Kumar, Kulkarni, Vrushali Y, Kosamkar, Pranali K | Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY |
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| A comparison of physics-based, data-driven, and hybrid modeling approaches for rice phenology prediction | Yu, Jin, Zhao, Yifan, Lei, Guoqing, Zeng, Wenzhi | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) | ||
| A dataset of daily cloud-free remote sensing indices for the cryosphere in High Mountain Asia (20002023) | SUN, Xingliang, SHI, Kaidan, HU, Zhimin, FENG, Min, GUO, Xuejun | Reflectance | ||
| A dataset of monthly NDVI at a 10-meter resolution for the Yangtze River Delta (20192023) | LIU, Lemeng, LI, Yang, DAI, Ling | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| A dataset on metal-related production activities and their socio-environmental impacts in Canada | Pellan, Marin, Greffe, Titouan, Majeau-Bettez, Guillaume, de Bortoli, Anne | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| A decade-long flow reversal in the intergyre region of the eastern north | Gonzalez-Pola, Cesar, Somavilla, Raquel, Grana, Rocio, Viloria, Amaia, Ibanez-Tejero, Laura | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| A Deep Learning Approach to Downscaling Microwave Land Surface | Waring, Abigail Marie, Ghent, Darren, Moffat, David, Jimenez, Carlos, Remedios, John | Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Snow Cover, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Snow Cover, Land Surface Temperature |
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| A deep learning method for generating gap-free FAPAR time series from | Zhang, Guodong, Yin, Gaofei, Zhao, Wei, Wang, Meilian, Verger, Aleixandre | Land Use/Land Cover Classification | ||
| A Long-Term 30-m Fractional Vegetation Cover Dataset Downscaled From | Du, Xiaozheng, Zhao, Xiang, Wang, Haoyu, Zhao, Jiacheng | Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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