List of articles published by Geography Faculty between 2005 - 2007

In Press

Anderson, J, M Martin, ML Smith, R Dubayah.   The Use of Waveform Lidar to Measure 
  Northern Temperate Mixed Conifer and Deciduous Forest Structure in New Hampshire, 
  Remote Sensing of Environment.

Anderson, T.M., J. Dempewolf, K.L. Metzger, D.N. Reed, S. Serneels. Generation and 
  Maintenance of Heterogeneity in the Serengeti Ecosystem. In: Serengeti III: The Future 
  of an Ecosystem, A.R.E. Sinclair, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Boschetti, M., Boschetti, L., Oliveri, S., and Casati, L., Tree species mapping with Airborne 
  hyper-spectral MIVIS data: the Ticino Park study case, International Journal of 
  Remote Sensing.

Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., E.S. Kasischke, K. Riordan, S. Brunzell, M. Nolan, E. Hyer, M. 
  Medvecz, T. Walters, and S. Ames, Remote monitoring of spatial and temporal surface 
  soil moisture in fire disturbed boreal forest ecosystems with ERS SAR imagery, Int. J. 
  Remote Sens.

Brown, M.E., Pinzon, J.E., Prince, S.D. 2007 Using satellite remote sensing data in a spatially 
  explicit price model. Land Economics.

DeFries, R., A. J. Hansen, B. L. Turner II, R. Reid and J. Liu. Land use change around protected 
  areas: Management opportunities to balance human needs and ecological function. 
  Ecological Applications. 

DeFries, R., F. Achard, F. Brown, M. Herold, D. Murdiyarso, B. Schlamadinger and C. M. 
  Souza. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries: 
  Considerations for monitoring and measuring. Environmental Science and Policy.

Dempewolf, J., R. DeFries, S. N. Trigg and S. Eby. MODIS derived burned area mapping of 
  Serengeti-Mara region. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Dempewolf, J., Trigg, S., Defries, R., Eby, S., Hopcraft, G. and Trollope, W., MODIS 
  derived burned area mapping of the Serengeti-Mara Region. IEEE Geoscience and 
  Remote Sensing Letters. Accepted December 2006.

Fang, H., S. Liang, G. Hoogenboom, J. Teasdale, M. Cavigelli, 2006. Crop yield estimation 
  through assimilation of remotely sensed data in a physiological model- Inversion of a 
  Crop Simulation Model (ICSM). International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Fang, H., S. Liang, J. R. Townshend, and R. E. Dickinson, 2006. Spatially and temporally 
  continuous LAI data sets based on an integrated filtering method: Examples from North 
  America. Remote Sensing of Environment. 

Foley, J., G. P. Asner, M. A. Costa, M. Coe, R. DeFries, H. Gibbs, E. Howard, S. Olson, J. Patz, 
  N. Ramankutty and P. Snyder. Amazonia revealed: Unexpected forest degradation and 
  the loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon basin. Frontiers in Ecology and 
  the Environment.

Goetz, S, R Dubayah, B Blair, Laser Remote Sensing of Canopy Habitat Heterogeneity as a 
  Predictor of Bird Species Richness, Remote Sensing of Environment.

Hansen, A. J. and R. DeFries. Ecological mechanisms linking nature reserves to surrounding 
  lands. Ecological Applications.

Hansen, A. J., M. Y. Said, J.O. Ogutu, R.S. Reid, R.S. Defries, J. Dempewolf, J.F. Robison-
  Cox, S.A.R. Mduma, J.G.C. Hopcraft. Land Use Change Around Protected Areas: Effects 
  on Large Mammal Populations in Kenyan Maasailand. Landscape Ecology.

J. Anderson, M. Martin, M-L. Smith, R. Dubayah, M. Hofton, P. Hyde, B. Peterson, J. B. Blair, 
  and R. Knox, The use of waveform lidar to measure temperate mixed deciduous forest 
  structure in New Hampshire, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2006.

Loboda, T. and I. Csiszar, Assessing the Risk of Ignition in a Dynamic Modeling Framework of 
  Fire Threat: an example from the Russian Far East. Ecological Applications.

Loboda, T. and I. Csiszar, Reconstruction of Fire Spread within Wildland Fire Events in 
  Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire Product. Global and Planetary Change.

Loboda, T., K.J. O’Neal and I. Csiszar, Regionally adaptable dNBR based algorithm for 
  burned area and impact severity assessment from MODIS data. Remote Sensing of 
  Environment.

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

Neigh, C.S.R., Tucker, C.J. and Townshend. J.R.G. (2006)  Synchronous NDVI and surface air 
  temperature trends in Newfoundland: 1982 to 2003.  International Journal of Remote 
  Sensing.

Prince S.D., Wessels, K.J., Tucker, C.J., Nicholson, S.E., 2007. Desertification in the Sahel: a 
  reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. Global Change Biology.

Pu, R., Z. Li, Gong, P., Csiszar, I., Fraser, R., Hao, W.-M., Kondragunta, S., Weng, F., 
  Development and analysis of a 12-year daily 1-km forest fire dataset across North 
  America from NOAA/AVHRR data. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Qin J., G. Yan, S. Liang, et al., (2005), Application of Ensemble Kalman Filter to remote 
  sensing inversion of land surface parameters, Science in China, Series D: Earth 
  Sciences, 35(8): 790-797, (in English).

Reitsma, F and R Dubayah.  Simulating watershed runoff with a new data model, Hydrological 
  Processes.

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

S. Y. Kotchenova and E. F. Vermote, Validation of a vector version of the 6S radiative transfer 
  code for atmospheric correction of satellite data. Part II: Homogeneous Lambertian and 
  anisotropic surfaces, Applied Optics.

Wessels, K.J., Prince, S.D., Carroll M., Malherebe, J., 2007. The relevance of rangeland 
  degradation in semi-arid north-eastern South Africa to the non-equilibrium theory. 
  Ecological Applications.

Y. Pang, G. Sun, and Z. Li, Terrain effects on the large footprint lidar waveform from forests, 
  Chinese Optics Letters.




2007

Alexander Sinyuk A., Dubovik O., Holben B.N., Eck T.F., Breon F.,  Martonchik J., Kahn R., 
  Diner D.J., Vermote E.F., Roger J.C., Lapyonok T. and  Slutsker I.., 2007, Simultaneous 
  retrieval of aerosol and surface properties from a combination of AERONET and satellite 
  data, Vol 107,1-2,90-108.

Chuvieco, E. and E.S. Kasischke, Remote sensing information for fire management and fire 
  effects assessment, J. Geophy. Res., 112, G01S90, doi:10.1029/2006JG00023, 20072.

Huang, C., Kim, S., Altstatt, A., Townshend, J.R.G., Davis, P., Song, K., Tucker, C.J., Rodas, 
  O., Yanosky, A., Clay, R. & Musinsky, J. (2007). Rapid loss of Paraguay’s Atlantic 
  forest and the status of protected areas - a Landsat assessment. Remote Sensing of 
  Environment, v.106, p.460-466.

Hyer, E.J., E.S. Kasischke, and D.J. Allen, Effects of source temporal resolution on transport 
  simulations of boreal fire emissions, J. Geophy. Res., 112, D01302, 
  doi:10.1029/2006JD007234, 20072,3

J. F. Weishampel, J. B. Drake, A. Cooper, B. Blair and M. Hofton, Forest canopy recovery from 
  the 1938 hurricane and subsequent salvage damage measured with airborne lidar, to 
  appear in Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2007.

Koetz, B., G. Sun, F. Morsdorf, K. J. Ranson, M. Kneubuhler, K. Itten, and B. Allgower, 2007, 
  Fusion of imaging spectrometer and LIDAR data over combined radiative transfer 
  models for forest canopy characterization, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 106 
  (4), pp. 449-459.

Ranga B. Myneni, Wenze Yang, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Alfredo R. Huete, Robert E. 
  Dickinson, Yuri Knyazikhin, Kamel Didan, Rong Fu, Robinson I. Negrón Juárez, Sasan 
  S. Saatchi, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Kazuhito Ichii, Nikolay V. Shabanov, Bin Tan, Piyachat 
  Ratana, Jeffrey L. Privette, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Eric F. Vermote, David P. Roy, Robert 
  E. Wolfe, Mark A. Friedl, Steven W. Running, Petr Votava, Nazmi El-Saleous, 
  Sadashiva Devadiga, Yin Su, and Vincent V. Salomonson, “Large seasonal swings in leaf 
  area of Amazon rainforests", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 13, 2007;104: 4821-4823.

Trigg, S. and Roy, D., 2007, A focus group-based assessment of resource managers perceptions 
  of the utility of the MODIS burned area product in Southern Africa.  Journal of 
  Environmental Management, 82, 95-110.

Vermote E.F., Roger J.C., Sinyuk A., Saleous N.Z. and Dubovik O., 2007, Fusion of 
  MODIS-MISR aerosol inversion for estimation of aerosol absorption, Remote 
  Sensing of Environment, Volume 107, 1-2,  81-89

Wendel, Stephen and Catherine Dibble (2007) Dynamic Agent Compression, Journal of 
  Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(2), 
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/2/9.html

Wessels KJ, Prince S.D., Malherbe J, Small J, Frost PE, VanZyl D (2007) Can human-induced 
  land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in 
  South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 68, 271-297.




2006

Arvidson, T., Goward, S.N., Gasch, J., & Williams, D.L. (2006) Landsat 7 long-term acquisition 
  plan: Development and validation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote 
  Sensing, 70 (10) 1137-1146.

B. Koetz, F. Morsdorf, G. Sun, K. J.  Ranson, K. Itten,  and B. Allgower, 2006,  Inversion of a 
  LIDAR Waveform Model for Forest biophysical Parameter Estimation,  IEEE 
  Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, pp 49-53.

Boschetti, L., Brivio, P. A., Eva, Hugh D., Gallego, J., Baraldi, A. and Grégoire, J-M., A 
  Sampling Method for the Retrospective Validation of Global Burned Area Products, 
  IEEE-Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 44, Issue 7, Part 
  1, July 2006 Page(s):1765 - 1773 Digital Object Identifier 
  10.1109/TGRS.2006.874039

Brown de Colstoun, E., R. DeFries and J. Townshend. 2006. Evaluation of ISLSCP 
  Initiative II satellite-based land cover data sets and assessment of progress in land 
  cover data for global modeling. Journal of Geohphysical Research 111(D22S07).

Brown ME, Pinzon JE, Prince SD ,2006. The Effect of Vegetation Productivity on Millet Prices 
  in the Informal Markets of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Climatic Change, DOI 
  10.1007/s10584-006-9096-4.

Carpenter, S. R., R. DeFries, T. Dietz, H. A. Mooney, S. Polasky, W. V. Reid and R. J. 
  Scholes. 2006. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research needs. Science 313: 
  257-258.

Catherine L. Carter and Martha E. Geores, 2006. “Heaven on Earth: The Shakers and 
  their Space" Geographies of Religion and Belief Systems 1(1) October 2006. 
  http://www.gorabs.org/journal/issues/2006/index.htm

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.

D. S. Kimes, K. J. Ranson, G. Sun, and J. B. Blair, 2006, Predicting lidar measured forest 
  vertical structure from multi-angle spectral data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 
  100(2006) 503-511.

DeFries, R., G. P. Asner and J. Foley. 2006. A glimpse out the window: What landscapes 
  reveal about livelihoods, land use, and environmental consequences. Environment 
  48(8): 22-36.

Giglio, L., I. Csiszar and C.O. Justice, 2006: Global Distribution and Seasonality of Active 
  Fires as Observed with the Terra and Aqua MODIS Sensors. Journal of 
  Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 111, G02016, 
  doi:10.1029/2005JG000142.

Gilruth, P.T., Kalluri, S. Jon W. Robinson, J.W., Townshend, J.R., Lindsay, F., Davis, P., Orr, 
  B.J. 2006  Measuring performance:  Moving NASA Earth science products into the 
  mainstream user community,  Space Policy, 22, 165-175.

Goward, S. N, Arvidson, T.J., , Williams, D.L., Faundeen, J., Irons, J. and Franks, S. (2006) 
  Historical record of Landsat global coverage: Mission Operations, NSLRSDA, and 
  international cooperator stations. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 
  70 (10) 1155-1170.

Harmon, J.M., Leone, M.P., Prince, S.D., Snyder, M. 2006. Lidar for archaeological landscape 
  analysis: A case study of two eighteenth-century Maryland plantation sites American 
  Antiquity, 71(4), 649-670

Hofton M, R Dubayah, B Blair. Validation of SRTM Elevations Over Vegetated and Non-
  Vegetated Terrain Using Medium-Footprint Lidar, Photogrametric Engineering 
  and Remote Sensing, 72(3): 279-287, 2006.

Hyde, P., R. Dubayah, B. Peterson, J.B. Blair, M. Hofton, C. Hunsaker, R. Knox and W. 
  Walker, Mapping forest structure for wildlife habitat analysis using multi-sensor 
  (LiDAR, SAR/InSAR, ETM+, Quickbird) synergy, Remote Sensing of 
  Environment, 102(1-2):63-73, 2006.

Irish, R.R., Barker, B.J., Goward, S.N., & Arvidson, T. (2006) Characterization of the Landsat-7 
  automatic cloud-cover assessment (ACCA) algorithm. Photogrammetric Engineering 
  and Remote Sensing, 1179-1188.

Jin, M. and S. Liang, (2006), Improve land surface emissivity parameter for land surface 
  models using global remote sensing observations, Journal of Climate. 19(12):2867-
  2881.

Kasischke, E.S., and M.R. Turetsky, Recent changes in the fire regime across the North 
  American boreal region- spatial and temporal patterns of burning across Canada and 
  Alaska, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09703, doi:10.1029/2006GL025677, 20061,3.

Kasischke, E.S., L.L. Bourgeau-Chavez, and J.F. Johnstone, Assessing spatial and temporal 
  variations in surface soil moisture in fire-disturbed black spruce forests using 
  spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery - implications for post-fire tree 
  recruitment, Rem. Sens. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.020, published online 
  18 Dec. 20061,3.

Li, A., A. Wang, S. Liang, and W. Zhou, (2006), Eco-environmental vulnerability evaluation in 
  mountainous region using remote sensing and GIS—A case study in the upper reaches of 
  Minjiang River, China, Ecological Modeling. 192 (1-2): 175-187. 

Liang S., T. Zheng, R. Liu, H. Fang, S.C. Tsay, S. Running, 2006. Estimation of incident 
  photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer 
  data. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 111, D15208, 
  doi:10.1029/2005JD006730.

Liang, S., B. Zhong and H. Fang, 2006. Improved estimation of aerosol optical depth from 
  MODIS imagery over land surfaces. Remote Sensing of Environment, 104(4): 409-
  415. 

Liang, S., B. Zhong, and H. Fang, (2006), Improved estimation of aerosol optical depth from 
  MODIS imagery over land surfaces, Remote Sensing of Environment. 104(4):416-425.

Liu, R., J. Liu, and S. Liang, (2006), Estimation of systematic errors of MODIS thermal infrared 
  bands, IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters,3(4):541-545.

Liu, R., S. Liang, J. Liu, and D. Zhuang, (2006), Continuous tree distribution in China: A 
  comparison of two estimates from MODIS and Landsat data, Journal of Geophysical 
  Research. 111, D08101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006039.

Loupian E.A., A.A Mazurov, E.V. Flitman, D.V. Ershov, G.N. Korovin, V.P. Novik, N.A. 
  Abushenko, D.A. Altyntsev, V.V. Koshelev, S.A. Tashchilin, A.V. Tatarnikov, I. 
  Csiszar, A.I. Sukhinin, E.I. Ponomarev, S.V. Afonin, V.V. Belov, G.G. Matvienko 
  and T. Loboda, 2006: Satellite monitoring of forest fires in Russia at federal and 
  regional levels. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 11, 
  113-145.

M. Hofton, E. Malavassi, and J. Blair, Quantifying recent pyroclastic and lava flows at Arenal 
  Volcano, Costa Rica, using medium-footprint lidar, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, 
  L21306, doi:10.1029/2006GL027822, 2006 (Featured in “Editors Highlights" November 
  3rd 2006, and as Cover Image, November 29th 2006).

Markham, B., Goward, S.N., Arvidson, T., Barsi, J.A., & Scaramuzza, P. (2006) Landsat-7 
  long-term acquisition plan radiometry - Evolution over time. Photogrammetric 
  Engineering and Remote Sensing, 70 (10) 1129-1136

Masek J.G., Vermote E.F., Saleous N.E., Wolfe R., Hall F.G., Huemmrich K.F., Gao F., 
  Kutler J., Lim T.K., 2006, “A Landsat surface reflectance dataset for North America 
  1990-2000", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3, (1), 68-72.

McCarty, J. L., C. O. Justice, and S. Korontzi (2006). Agricultural burning in the  
  southeastern United States detected by MODIS, Remote Sensing of 
  Environment,  doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.03.020.

Miles, L., A.C. Newton, R. DeFries, C. Ravilious, I. May, S. Blyth, V. Kapos, and J. 
  Gordon, 2006: A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests. 
  Journal of Biogeography. 33: 491-505.

Morisette, J., F. Baret, and S. Liang, (2006), Special issue on global land product validation, 
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44(7): 1695-1697.

Morton, D., R. DeFries, Y. Shimabukuro, L. Anderson, E. Arai, F. Espirito-Santo, R. 
  Freitas and J. Morisette. 2006. Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics 
  in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of 
  Sciences 103(39): 14637-14641.

Nelson, G., E. Benett, A. Berhe, K. Cassman, R. DeFries, T. Dietz, A. P. Dobson, A. 
  Doberman, A. C. Janetos, M. Levy, D. Marco, N. Nakicenovic, B. O'Neill, R. 
  Norgaard, G. Petschel-Helf, D. Ojima, P. Pingali, R.Wateron and M. Zurek. 2006. 
  Anthropgenic drivers of ecosystem change: An overview. Ecology and Society 
  11(2): 29.

O’Neill, K.P,  D.D. Richter, and E.S. Kasischke, Succession-driven changes in soil respiration 
  following fire in black spruce stands of Interior Alaska., Biogeochemistry,80, 1-20, 
  20062.

Pongratz, J., L. Bounoua, R. DeFries, D. Morton, L. Anderson and W. Mauser. 2006. 
  Estimating the impact of land cover change on energy and water balance in Mato 
  Grosso, Brazil. Earth Interactions.

Qin J., G. Yan, S. Liu, S. Liang, et al., (2006), application of Ensemble Kalman Filter to remote 
  sensing inversion of land surface parameters, Science in China, Series D: Earth 
  Sciences,49(6):632-640.

Ramankutty, N., H. Gibbs, F. Achard, R. DeFries, J. Foley and R. A. Houghton. 2006. 
  Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation. Global 
  Change Biology 12: 1-16.

Reto Stockli,  Eric F. Vermote, Nazmi Saleous,Robert Simmon, And David Herring, 2006, 
  "True Color Earth Data Set Includes Seasonal Dynamics", EOS-Vol87, Number 5, 
  Pages 49-55.

Roger J.C., M. Mallet, P. Dubuisson, H. Cachier, E. Vermote, O. Dubovik, S. Despiau, 
  2006, Application to an urban zone during the Expérience sur Site pour Contraindre 
  les Modèles de Pollution et de Transport d'Emission (ESCOMPTE) experiment, J. 
  Geophys. Res., Vol. 111, No. D13, D13208

Roy, D., Lewis, P., Schaaf, C., Devadiga, S., Boschetti, L., The Global impact of cloud on 
  the production of MODIS n-day and daily rolling n-day bi-directional reflectance 
  model based composites for terrestrialmonitoring , IEEE Geoscience and Remote 
  Sensing Letters, Volume 3, Issue 4, Oct. 2006 Page(s):452 -456 Digital Object 
  Identifier 10.1109/LGRS.2006.875433

Roy, D.. Trigg, S.N., Bhima, R., Brockett, B.H, Dube, O.P., Frost, P., Govender, N., Landmann, 
  T., LeRoux, J., Lepono, T., Macuacua, J., Mbow, C., Mhwandangara, K.L., Mosepele, 
  B., Mutanga, O., Neo-Mahupeleng, G., Norman, M. and Virgilo, S., 2006, The utility of 
  satellite fire product accuracy information - perspectives and recommendations from the 
  southern Africa fire network.  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 
  44, 7, 1298-1930.

Roy, D.P., Boschetti, L., Trigg, S., Remote Sensing of Fire Severity: Assessing the 
  performance of the Normalized Burn Ratio, 2006, IEEE Geoscience and Remote 
  Sensing Letters, volume3, issue1, jan 2006 pag.112-116, DOI 10.1109/ 
  LGRS.2005.858485.

S. Korontzi, J. McCarty, T. Loboda, S. Kumar, and C. O. Justice (2006). Global  
  distribution of agricultural fires in croplands from 3 years of Moderate Resolution 
  Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, Global Biogeochemical 
  Cycles,20( 2), GB2021.

S. Y. Kotchenova, E. F. Vermote, R. Matarrese, & F. Klemm, 2006  Validation of a new 
  vector version of the 6S radiative transfer code for atmospheric correction of 
  MODIS data: Part I - Path Radiance, Applied Optics, Vol 45., No. 26, 6762-6774.

Schimel, D., I. Y. Fung and R. DeFries. 2006. Space-based ecological observations: The 
  NASA decadal survey. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(4): 171.
  
Sun, G., K. J. Ranson and Z. Zhang, 2006, Forest vertical parameters from lidar and multi-angle 
  imaging spectrometer data, Journal of Remote Sensing (in Chinese), 10(4): 523-530.

Sun, W., Xu, G., Gong, P. and S. Liang, (2006), Fractal analysis of remotely sensed images: A 
  review of methods and applications, International Journal of Remote 
  Sensing,27(22):4963-4990

Trigg, S. , Curran, L. and McDonald, A., 2006, Testing the Utility of Landsat 7 Satellite Data for 
  Continued Monitoring of Forest Cover in Protected Areas of Southeast Asia, Singapore 
  Journal of Tropical Geography, 27, 63-83.

Vermote E.F. and Saleous N.Z., 2006, Calibration of NOAA16 AVHRR over a desert site using 
  MODIS data,  Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 105, 3,  214-220

Williams, D.L., Goward, S.N., & Arvidson, T. (2006) Landsat Operations: Yesterday, 
  today and tommorow. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 1171-
  1178.

Y. Dong, Y. Pang, G. Sun, and Z. Li, 2006, Rice growth monitoring and parameter retrieval 
  using ENVISAT ASAR data, Geomatics and Information Science Of Wuhan 
  University, 31(2): 124-128.

Y. Pang, G. Sun, and Z. Li, 2006, Impact of spatial distribution pattern of trees on lidar 
  waveform from model simulations, Journal of Remote Sensing (in Chinese), 10(1): 97-
  104.

Yeo, I. and J-M, Guldmann. 2006. Land Use Optimization to Control Stormwater Runoff. 
  Environment and Planning B,  33(6) 903-21, 2006.

Zhang, Q.F., Justice, C.O. , Jing, M.X., Bruner, J., Wilkie, D.S.,  2006. A GIS-based assessment 
  on the vulnerability and future extent of the tropical forests of the Congo Basin. Environ. 
  Mon. Assess. 114, 107-121.




2005

Alleaume, S., Hély C., Le Roux.,  J., Korontzi S., Swap R.J., Shugart H. H. and Justice C.O. 
  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.

Anderson, L.O., Y.E. Shimabukuro, R.S. DeFries, and D. Morton, 2005: Assessment of land 
  cover and land use changes in the Brazilian Amazon using multitemporal fraction images 
  derived from Terra MODIS: Examples from the state of Mato Grosso. IEEE Geoscience 
  and Remote Sensing Letters, 2(3): 315-318.

Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., K.B. Smith, S.M. Brunzell, C.J. Richardson, E.A. Romanowicz,  and 
  E.S. Kasischke, Remote monitoring of regional scale inundation patterns and 
  hydroperiod in the Greater Everglades using synthetic aperture radar, Wetlands, 25, 176-
  191, 2005. 

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.

DeFries, R., Hansen, A.J., Newton, A.C. and Hansen, M.C., 2005. Increasing isolation of 
  protected areas in tropical forests over the past twenty years. Ecological Applications, 
  15(1): 19-26.

Eric F. Vermote and Elizabeth A  Satterfield,  2005, Cover: Southern Africa, 2 February 
  2002 to 16 May 2002, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 
  500m land surface reflectance, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26, 
  (9),4137-4139 .

Fang, H. and S. Liang, 2005. A hybrid inversion method for mapping leaf area index from 
  MODIS data: experiments and application to broadleaf and needleleaf canopies. Remote 
  Sensing of Environment, 94(3): 405-424. 

Fang, H., G. Liu, and M. Kearney, 2005. Geo-relational analysis of soil type, soil salt content, 
  landform, and land use in the Yellow River Delta, China. Environmental Management , 
  35(1): 1-13.

Fang, H., S. Liang, M. P. McClaran, W. van Leeuwen, S. Drake, S. E. Marsh, A. Thomson, R. 
  C. Izaurralde, and N. J. Rosenberg, 2005. Biophysical Characteristics and management 
  effects on semiarid rangeland observed from Landsat ETM+ data. IEEE Transactions 
  on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 43(1): 125-134. 

Fang, Hongliang, G. Liu, and M. S. Kearney.  2005.  Geo-relational analysis of soil type, soil 
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