Since the remote sensing data of MODIS has some advantages of short detection period, wide coverage and open access, it is suitable for large-scale, dynamic agricultural remote sensing monitoring. According to the application requirements of winter wheat acreage extracting in Huang-Huai region, this article analyzes the features of MODIS data and phenological characteristics of crops. Three kin...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Earth Observing System satellites Terra and Aqua include infrared bands that are designed for the accurate measurement of sea-surface temperature (SST). In addition to the conventional ‘split-window’ bands in the 10-12 μm atmospheric window (similar in spectral properties to the corresponding channels of the heritage instrume...

Prediction method for large diatom appearance in winter with meteorological data and MODIS derived turbidity and chlorophyll-a in Ariake Bay Area in Japan is proposed. Mechanism for large diatom appearance in winter is discussed with the influencing factors, meteorological condition and in-situ data of turbidity, chlorophyll-a data with the measuring instruments equipped at the Saga University ...

A sub-pixel-based calculation of fire radiative power from MODIS observations: 1 Algorithm development and initial assessment" (2013). a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Fire Wildfire Biomass burning Fire radiative power (FRP) MODIS Fire area Fire temperature Sub-pixel Fire detection Airborne Developed as a quantitative measurement of fire intensity, fire radiative power (FRP) and ...

The Earth Observing System [1] initiated high quality global Earth observations and operational aerosol retrievals over land. With the wide swath (2300 km) of MODIS instrument, the MODIS Dark Target algorithm [2-3] currently complemented with the Deep Blue method [4] provides daily global view of planetary atmospheric aerosol. With MODIS aerosol program being very successful, there are still se...

The EOS-TERRA MODIS and MISR instruments provide radiances for independent spectral and stereo retrievals of cloud top height (CTH), respectively. Collocated and coincident CTH retrievals were compared against each other and with coincident millimeter-wave radar (MMCR) retrievals over the British Isles and the ARM SGP site. This intercomparison suggests close agreement between MMCRR, MODIS and ...

Globally acquired data from both MODIS instruments are suitable for science quality time series, because the unique concept of pixel-level quality information of each MODIS land product allows a detailed analysis of the data usability. MODIS datasets are regularly updated and reprocessed to meet present science requirements. This study compares time series of present collection 4 and currently ...

Leaf area index collected in a needle-leaf forest site near Ruokolahti, Finland, during a field campaign in June 14-21, 2000, was used to validate Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LAI and FPAR algorithm. The field LAI data was first related to 30m resolution Enhanced Thermal Mapper Plus (ETM+) images using empirical methods to create a high resolution LAI map. It shows that...

This work modelled the spatial distribution of the rodent species that act as hosts in the transmission cycle of the parasitic tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. The rodent distribution was modelled in relation to landscape characteristics in four ways, using (1) a Landsat ETM+ derived hard classification, (2) single-image Landsat ETM+ derived NDVI, (3) single-image MODIS 16-day composite ND...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Terra satellite has been collecting global data since March 2000 and the one on the Aqua satellite since June 2002. In this paper, cirrus cloud properties derived from ground-based remote sensing data are compared with similar cloud properties derived from MODIS data on Terra. To improve the space–time correlation betwe...