Dr. Ivan Csiszar

 
Education

PhD   Earth Sciences, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1996
BS   Meteorology, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1988

Research Interests

• Remote sensing of land surface processes
• Fire monitoring from satellites
• Land use and land cover
• Integrated observing systems

Ivan Csiszar has been using satellite data for the retrieval of atmospheric parameters (ozone, cloud properties) and surface characteristics (vegetation index, surface albedo, surface temperature etc.). He developed an automated real-time satellite-based active fire monitoring system at NOAA and participated in other projects towards the operational use of satellite-derived surface parameters in weather forecasting and climate research. He is also interested in processing time series of satellite data and in combining data from multiple sensors. Currently he is working on the validation of fire products the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) using high-resolution satellite measurements and in situ data. Csiszar is also analyzing dynamics of fire occurrence from MODIS at continental and global scales and is working on transition of the experimental MODIS Land Rapid Response system to a fully operational domain. He is involved in the Forest Fire Monitoring and Mapping theme of the Global Observation of Forest and Landcover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD) program and the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI).

• GOFC/GOLD Fire website
  
• Analysis of long-term fire dynamics and impacts in the Amazon using integrated multi-source fire observations
  
• NELDA: Monitoring and Validating the Distribution and Change in Land Cover across Northern Eurasia
  
• Data support system and services for NEESPI
  
• Evaluation of Habitat Availability for Large Carnivores Under a Changing Climate and Disturbance Regime: an Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard Case Study
  
• Active fires from MODIS and VIIRS and developing the associated Earth Science Data Record
  

Representative Papers

Pu, R., Z. Li, Gong, P., Csiszar, I., Fraser, R., Hao, W.-M., Kondragunta, S., Weng, F., (2007)

Development and analysis of a 12-year daily 1-km forest fire dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 108, 198-208.

Loboda, T. and I. Csiszar, (2007)

Reconstruction of Fire Spread within Wildland Fire Events in Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire Product. Global and Planetary Change, 56, 258-273.

Csiszar, I., J. Morisette and L. Giglio, (2006)

Validation of active fire detection from moderate resolution satellite sensors: the MODIS example in Northern Eurasia. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 7, 1757-1764.

Schroeder, W., J. Morisette, I. Csiszar, L. Giglio, D. Morton, C.O. Justice, (2005)

Characterizing Vegetation Fire Dynamics in Brazil Through Multi-Satellite Data: Common Trends and Practical Issues. Earth Interactions, 9, paper no. 13.

Csiszar, I., L. Denis, L. Giglio, C.O. Justice and J. Hewson, (2005)

Global Fire Activity from two years of MODIS data. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 117-130. Justice, C.O., R. Smith, M. Gill and I. Csiszar, (2003) Satellite-based Fire Monitoring: current capabilities, future directions and applications in Australia.
International Journal of Wildland Fire 102, 247-258.

Csiszar, I., A. Abdelgadir, Z. Li, J. Jin, R. Fraser and W.-M. Hao, (2003)

Interannual changes of active fire detectability in North America from long-term records of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.
Journal of Geophysical Research 108, (D2), 4075, doi:10.1029/2001JD001373.

Csiszar, I. and J. Sullivan, (2002)

Recalculated pre-launch saturation temperatures of the AVHRR 3.7 micrometer sensors on board the TIROS-N to NOAA-14 satellites.
International Journal of Remote Sensing 23, 5271-5276.

McNamara, D., G. Stephens, B. Ramsay, E. Prins, I. Csiszar, C. Elvidge, R. Hobson, and C. Schmidt, (2002)

Fire Detection and Monitoring Products at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 68, 774-775.

Gutman, G., C. Elvidge, I. Csiszar and P. Romanov, (2001)

NOAA Archives of Data from Meteorological Satellites Useful for Fire Products.
Chapter in: Global and Regional Wildfire Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort.
Edited by F. Ahern, J. Goldammer and C.O. Juctice.
SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, The Netherlands, 257-266.

Csiszar, I., G. Gutman, P. Romanov, M. Leroy and O. Hautecoeur, (2001)

Using ADEOS/POLDER data to reduce the angular variability of NOAA/AVHRR reflectances.
Remote Sensing of Environment 76:399-409.

Gallo, K., D. Tarpley, K. Mitchell, I. Csiszar, T. Owen and B. Reed, (2001)

Monthly Fractional Green Vegetation Cover Associated with Land Cover Classes of the Conterminous USA.
Geophysical Research Letters 28:2089-2092.

Gutman, G., I. Csiszar and P. Romanov, (2000)

Using NOAA/AVHRR products to monitor El Niño impacts: Focus on Indonesia in 1997-1998.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81:1189-1205.

Csiszar, I. and G. Gutman, (1999)

Mapping global land surface albedo from NOAA/AVHRR.
Journal of Geophysical Research 104:6215-6228.