 Congratulations to Associate Research Scientist Ivan Csiszar for his success in receiving an award in NASA's New Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science. His topic is "Intercalibration of Fire Products from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Towards a Consistent Long-Term Record of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia." The award will provide support for three years for Dr. Csiszar to carry out a multi-oriented investigation using field data and remotely sensed data from MODIS, precursor data from AVHRR, and high resolution Landsat 7 data. The primary focus will be on burned area estimates of the boreal forests of the Northern Eurasian part of Russia. The results of the study, which will provide improved time series data, will supply useful information for the climate change user community on inter-annual variability and long-term trends of biomass burning. It is also expected that the results could also be used to define the continuity products for the Visible Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the future National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) satellites and to set requirements for future space-based systems for the global observation of biomass burning. |
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