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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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| The surface urban heat island effect decreases bird diversity in Chinese | Cai, Zhizheng, La Sorte, Frank A., Chen, Yu, Wu, Jiayu | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| The Rainfall Intensity-Duration Control of Debris Flows After Wildfire | Thomas, Matthew A., Lindsay, Donald N., Cavagnaro, David B., Kean, Jason W., McCoy, Scott W., Graber, Andrew P. | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) | ||
| The Spatio-Temporal Cloud Frequency Distribution in the Galapagos Archipelago as Seen from MODIS Cloud Mask Data | Zander, Samira, Turini, Nazli, Ballari, Daniela, Bayas Lopez, Steve Darwin, Celleri, Rolando, Delgado Maldonado, Byron, Orellana-Alvear, Johanna, Schmidt, Benjamin, Scherer, Dieter, Bendix, Jorg | Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Clouds, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Height | ||
| The role of wind and buoyancy forcing on mixed layer depths and productivity on the Chatham Rise from ocean glider and ship-based observations | Collins, Charine, OCallaghan, Joe, Clark, Malcolm R., Nodder, Scott D. | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| The savannization of tropical forests in mainland Southeast Asia since 2000 | Wang, Mengjie, Guo, Qinfeng, Chen, Anping | Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification |
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| The role of midlatitude cyclones in the emission, transport, production, and removal of aerosols in the Northern Hemisphere | Robinson, Joseph, Jaegle, Lyatt, Oman, Luke D. | Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Upper Air Temperature, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Altitude, Geopotential Height, Ozone Profiles, 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 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 | ||
| The role of recall periods when predicting food insecurity: A machine learning application in Nigeria | Villacis, Alexis H., Badruddoza, Syed, Mishra, Ashok K., Mayorga, Joaquin | Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature | ||
| The role of short-term air pollution and temperature on arterial stiffness in a longitudinal closed cohort of elderly individuals | Peralta, Adjani A., Gold, Diane R., Yazdi, Mahdieh Danesh, Wei, Yaguang, Schwartz, Joel | Particulate Matter, Particulates, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| The responses of ecological indicators to compound extreme climate indices in Southwestern China | Lu, Qingao, Zhang, Yuandong, Song, Bochao, Shao, Hui, Tian, Xiaorui, Liu, Shirong | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity |
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| The role of crop classification in detecting wheat yield variation for index-based agricultural insurance in arid and semiarid environments | Eltazarov, Sarvarbek, Bobojonov, Ihtiyor, Kuhn, Lena, Glauben, Thomas | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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| STEEP: A remotely-sensed energy balance model for evapotranspiration | Bezerra, Ulisses A., Cunha, John, Valente, Fernanda, Nobrega, Rodolfo L.B., Andrade, Joao M., Moura, Magna S.B., Verhoef, Anne, Perez-Marin, Aldrin M., Galvao, Carlos O. | Reflectance, Anisotropy, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux | ||
| Strata: Mapping climate, environmental and security vulnerability hotspots | Young, Hannah R., Cha, YoungHwa, den Boer, Hannah, Schellens, Marie, Nash, Kathryn, Watmough, Gary R., Donovan, Kate, Patenaude, Genevieve, Fleming, Sam, Butchart, Ben, Woodhouse, Iain H. | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Study on Atmospheric Water Resource Variation Characteristics in China | An, Lin, Yao, Zhanyu, Zhang, Pei, Jia, Shuo, Zhao, Jieyun, Liu, Zhen, Zhang, Zequn | 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 | ||
| Synergy between TROPOMI sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and MODIS spectral reflectance for understanding the dynamics of gross primary ... | Balde, Hamadou, Hmimina, Gabriel, Goulas, Yves, Latouche, Gwendal, Soudani, Kamel | Reflectance | ||
| Synthesis of habitat models for management of wolverine (Gulo gulo): Identifying key habitat and snow refugia in the Columbia and Rocky Mountains, Canada | Schepens, Gabriel, Pigeon, Karine, Loosen, Anne, Forshner, Anne, Jacob, Aerin L. | Snow Cover | ||
| Synthesizing sea surface temperature and satellite altimetry observations using deep learning improves the accuracy and resolution of gridded sea surface height ... | Martin, Scott A., Manucharyan, Georgy E., Klein, Patrice | Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| Systematic daytime increases in atmospheric biases linked to dry soils in irrigated areas in Indian operational forecasts | Barton, Emma J., Taylor, C. M., Mitra, A. K., Jayakumar, A. | Vegetation Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Skin Temperature, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain | ||
| Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Retrieval from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V in | Luffarelli, Marta, Franceschini, Lucio, Govaerts, Yves, Niro, Fabrizio, De Grandis, Erminia | Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness | ||
| Temperature dependence of spring carbon uptake in northern high | Zhu, Dan, Wang, Yilong, Ciais, Philippe, Chevallier, Frederic, Peng, Shushi, Zhang, Yao, Wang, Xuhui | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) for drought monitoring in the Guangdong Province from 2000 to 2019 | Chen, Ailin, Jiang, Jiajun, Luo, Yong, Zhang, Guoqi, Hu, Bin, Wang, Xiao, Zhang, Shiqi | Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity | ||
| Temperature-dominated spatiotemporal variability in snow phenology on the Tibetan Plateau from 2002 to 2021 | Xu, Jiahui, Tang, Yao, Dong, Linxin, Wang, Shujie, Yu, Bailang, Wu, Jianping, Zheng, Zhaojun, Huang, Yan | Reflectance | ||
| Temporal and spatial analysis of vegetation cover change in the Yellow River Delta based on Landsat and MODIS time series data | Wei, Songfei, Dong, Yao, Qiu, Yuxin, Li, Baihong, Li, Shengyi, Dong, Chao | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) | ||
| Spherical air mass factors in one and two dimensions with SASKTRAN 1.6.0 | Fehr, Lukas, McLinden, Chris, Griffin, Debora, Zawada, Daniel, Degenstein, Doug, Bourassa, Adam | Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance | ||
| Surfacedriven amplification of MJO circulation anomalies across East Africa and its influence on the Turkana jet | Talib, Joshua, Taylor, Christopher M., Harris, Bethan L., Wainwright, Caroline M. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain |
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| Susceptibility of vegetation low-growth to climate extremes on Tibetan | Zhang, Yichen, Hong, Songbai, Liu, Dan, Piao, Shilong | Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) |
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