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. 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

Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment
NASA Land Cover Land Use Change
MODIS Rapid Response System
MODIS Data for Global Agricultural Monitoring
Global Fire Mapping
Global Climate Change in Africa
Global Observation of Forest Cover/Global Observation of Landcover Dynamics

Representative Papers

Roy, D.P., Jin, Y., Lewis, P.E., Justice, C.O , 2005. Prototyping a global algorithm for systematic fire-affected area mapping using MODIS time series data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 97, 137-162.

Morisette J.T., Giglio L. and Csiszar I., Justice, C.O. 2005. Validation of the MODIS active fire product over Southern Africa with ASTER data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26, pp.4239-4264

Roy, D.P., Frost, P.G.H., Justice, C.O. 2, Landmann, T., Le Roux, J.L., Gumbo, K., Makungwa, S., Dunham, K., Du Toit, R., Mhwandagara, K., Zacarias A, Tacheba, B., Dube O., Pereira, J., Mushove, P., Morisette, J., Santhana Vannan, S., Davies, D., 2005. The Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) regional burned area product validation protocol, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26, pp. 4265-4292.

Morisette J.T., Giglio L. and Csiszar I., Setzer A., Schroeder W., Morton D., Justice C.O. , 2005. Validation of MODIS Active Fire Detection Products Derived from Two Algorithms. Earth Interactions, 9, 1-23.

Alleaume, S., Hély C., Le Roux., J., Korontzi S., Swap R.J., Shugart H. H. and Justice C.O. 3 2005. Using MODIS to evaluate heterogeneity of biomass burning in southern African savannahs: a case study in Etosha. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26, pp. 4219 - 4237.

Csiszar, I., Denis, L., Giglio, L., Justice, C. O, and Hewson, J., 2005. Global fire distribution from MODIS. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 117-130.

Chuvieco E. and Justice C.O. 2004. Forest Fire Prevention and Assessment. Special Edition, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol.92, Issue 3, 295-423.

Gutman, G.; Janetos, A.C.; Justice, C.O.; Moran, E.F.; Mustard, J.F.; Rindfuss, R.R.; Skole, D.; Turner II, B.L.; Cochrane, M.A., Eds., 2004. Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface, Springer Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing series, Vol. 6. 480 p.

DeFries R.,. Asner G., Achard F., Justice C. , Laporte N., Price K., Small C., Townshend J. 2006. Monitoring tropical deforestation for Carbon Credits. In: Reduction of Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change Mitigation, edited by Paulo Mountinho and Stephan Schwartzman. Instituto de Pesquisa Ambientalda Amazonia, 35-46.

Justice C.O. , Wilkie D., Putz F.E., Brunner J., 2005. Climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: assumptions, realities and future investments. In: P. Sum Low (Ed.) Climate Change and Africa, Cambridge University Press, UK, 172-181.

Desanker P.V, Justice C.O. 1, Munthali G. and Masamvu K., 2005. Requirements for integrated assessment modeling at the regional and national levels in Africa to address climate change. In: P. Sum Low (Ed.) Climate Change and Africa, Cambridge University Press, UK., 260-271.