Dr. Christopher O. Justice

 
Education

PhD  Geography, Reading University, UK, 1977
BA    Honors Geography, Reading University, UK, 1973

Research Interests

• Remote Sensing
• Global Change Research
• Land Use and Land Cover Change
• Satellite-based Fire Monitoring
• Terrestrial Observing Systems

Professor Justice received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading, United Kingdom. Since 2001 he has been a professor and research director in the Geography Department of the University of Maryland. He is a team member and land discipline chair of the NASA Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Science Team and is responsible for the MODIS Fire Product and the MODIS Rapid Response System. He is a member of the NASA NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Science Team. He is co-chair of the GOFC/GOLD-Fire Implementation Team, a project of the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS), and a member of the Integrated Global Observation of Land (IGOL) Steering Committee. He is on the Strategic Objective Team for USAID's Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment. He is Co-Chair of the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring Task. His current research is on land cover and land use change, the extent and impacts of global fire, global agricultural monitoring, and their associated information technology and decision support systems.

Research Projects

USAID/NASA Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment
NASA Land Cover Land Use Change
MODIS Rapid Response System
NPOESS VIIRS Fire Product and Validation
Global Agricultural Monitoring
Global Fire Mapping
Global Observation of Forest Cover/Global Observation of Landcover Dynamics

Representative Papers

Davies, D.K., Ilavajhala, S., Wong, M.M. and Justice, C.O., 2009, Fire Information for Resource Management System: Archiving and Distributing MODIS Active Fire Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47, pp. 72-79.

Roy D.P., Boschetti L., Justice C.O., Ju J., 2008. The Collection 5 MODIS Burned Area Product - Global Evaluation by Comparison with the MODIS Active Fire Product, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3690-3707

Giglio L., Csiszar, I., Restas A., Morisette J.T., Schroeder W., Morton D. Justice C.O., 2008. Active fire detection and characterization with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Remote Sensing of the Environment, 112, 3055-3063.

Chuvieco E., Giglio L. and Justice C.O. 2008. Global Characterization of Fire Activity: towards defining fire regions from Earth Observation Data. Global Change Biology, 14, 1488-1502.
Boschetti, L., Roy, D. and Justice, C.O, 2008. Using NASA’s World Wind Virtual Globe for Interactive Visualization of the Global MODIS Burned Area Product, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11), 3067-3072.

Boschetti, L ., Roy, D. Barbosa, P., Boca, R. and Justice, C.O., 2008. A MODIS assessment of the summer 2007 extent burned in Greece, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(8):2433-2436.

McCarty J.L., Justice C.O. and Korontzi S., 2007. Agricultural burning in the Southeastern United States detected by MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 108, 2, 151-162.

Brady M.A, de Groot W.I., Goldammer J.G., Keenan T. Lynham T.J., Justice C.O. , Csiszar I.A. and O’Loughlin K., 2007. Developing a global early warning system for wildland fire. In Sivakumar M.V.K. and Motha R.P. (Eds),  Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, 355-366.

Roy D. and Justice C.O., 2007.  A burning question – the changing role of fire on Earth. In King M. and Parkinson C., Our Changing Planet: a view from space. Cambridge University Press.