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AN: B22C-08 INVITED     [PDF]
TI: The MODIS Rapid Response Project: Near-Real-Time Processing for Fire Monitoring and Other Applications
AU: * Descloitres, J
EM: jack@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC/SSAI, Code 922 - Bldg 33 - Rm G108, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Justice, C
EM: justice@hermes.geog.umd.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Sohlberg, R
EM: sohlberg@umd.edu
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Giglio, L
EM: giglio@hades.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC/SSAI, Code 922 - Bldg 33 - Rm G108, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Schmaltz, J
EM: jschmaltz@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC/SSAI, Code 922 - Bldg 33 - Rm G108, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Seaton, J
AF: SAIC, 7501 Forbes Blvd, Seabrook, MD 20706 United States
AU: Davies, D
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Anyamba, A
AF: NASA/GSFC/UMBC, Code 923, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hansen, M
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Carroll, M
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Sullivan, M
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Geography 2181 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AB: The Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on board the Terra and Aqua satellites offers an unprecedented combination of daily spatial coverage, spatial resolution, and spectral characteristics. These capabilities make MODIS ideal to observe a variety of rapid events: active fires, floods, smoke transport, dust storms, severe storms, iceberg calving, and volcanic eruptions. The MODIS Rapid Response System (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov) was developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to provide a rapid response to those events, with initial emphasis on active fire detection and 250m-resolution imagery. MODIS data for most of the Earth's land surface is processed just a few hours after data acquisition. A collaboration between NASA, the University of Maryland and the U.S.D.A. Forest Service has been developed to provide fire information derived from MODIS to federal fire managers. Active fire locations in the conterminous United States are produced by the MODIS Rapid Response System and communicated to the Forest Service within a few minutes of production. The MODIS Rapid Response processing was also adapted to Direct Broadcast to reduce the product turn-around to just minutes after data acquisition regionally. MODIS active fire locations are used by the Forest Service to generate regional fire maps over the United States, updated twice daily and provided to the fire managers to help them allocate firefighting resources. Active fire locations are also distributed in near-real-time to the Global Observation of Forest Cover (G.O.F.C.) user community through a web interface integrating MODIS active fire locations and Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) datasets. The suite of MODIS rapid fire products is currently being complemented with a Smoke Index product and a Burned Area product that will represent two new key tools available to the fire community. Finally a new collaboration with the U.S.D.A. Foreign Agricultural Service was recently developed to generate near-real-time MODIS data for crop monitoring and forecasting applications. A rapid Vegetation Index product was created to that effect.
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting