Bobbe, T., Descloitres, J., Finco, M., Giglio, L., Justice, C., Sohlberg, R., and Townshend, J. (2002). MODIS Land Rapid Response System: implementation with USDA Forest Service and implications for active fire detection and land cover change products from future moderate resolution sensors. NPOESS MAXI Review 2002, Silver Spring, MD.

Carroll, M., Descloitres, J., Giglio, L., Sohlberg, R., Finco, M, Quayle, B., Owens, J., Townshend, J., and Justice, C. (2002). MODIS Land Rapid Response activities with the USDA Forest Service: time sensitive data acquisition to support wildfire management. Proceedings of 2002 NASA Science Data Processing Workshop, Greenbelt, Md.

DeFries, R., Houghton, R.A., Hansen, M., Field, C., Skole, D., Townshend, J.R.G. (2002). Carbon Emissions from Tropical Land Use Change Based on Satellite Observations for the 1980s and 90s. Proceeding National Academy of Sciences, 99, 14256-14261.

Eastman, J.C., Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Sohlberg, R., and Tucker, C.J. (2002, submitted). Roadless areas and forest fires in the western United States. EOS Transactions.

Hansen, M., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., and Sohlberg, R. 2002 (invited) (2002). Continuous fields of tree cover for the United States using multi-resolution satellite Data. RS2002: Ninth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, San Diego CA.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Marufu, L., and Sohlberg, R. (2002). Development of a MODIS tree cover validation data set for Western Province, Zambia. Remote Sensing Environment, 83, 320-335.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R., DiMiceli, C., and Carroll, M. (2002). Towards an operational MODIS continuous field of percent tree cover algorithm: Examples using AVHRR and MODIS data. Remote Sensing Environment, 83, 303-319.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R., Carroll, M., and DiMiceli, C. (2002). Global percent tree cover from MODIS data. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, 2002.

Huang, C. Townshend, J.R.G., Liang, S. Kalluri, S.N.V. and Defries, R.D. (2002). Impact of sensor’s point spread function on land cover characterization, assessment and deconvolution. Remote Sensing of Environment, 80, 203-212.

Huang, C., Davis, L. S., and Townshend, J.R.G. (2002). An assessment of support vector machines for land cover classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23, 725-749.

Justice, C.O., and Townshend, J. (2002). Special issue on the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS): a new generation of land surface monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1), 1-2.

Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G., Vermote, E., Wolfe, R. El Saleous, N. and Roy, D (2002). Status of MODIS, its data processing and products for terrestrial science applications. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 3-15.

Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G., Vermote, E.F., Masuoka, E., Wolfe R.E., Saleous N., Roy D.P., Morisette J.T. (2002). An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status. Remote Sensing Of Environment, 83(1-2), 3-15.

Townshend J.R.G. and Justice C.O. (2002). Towards operational monitoring of terrestrial systems by moderate-resolution remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83(1-2), 351-359.

Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Hansen, M., DeFries, R., Sohlberg, R., Zhan, X., Caroll, M., DiMicelli, C. (2002). The use of EOS data for characterizing and monitoring land cover change in the framework of the program of Global Observations of Landcover Dynamics. Proceedings of Advanced Training Workshop on Land Use and Land Cover Changes Study, December 9-20, 2002, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 357-398.

Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R.A., DeFries, R.S., Hansen, M.C., Carroll, M.L., DiMiceli, C., and Semeiks, B.M. (2002). The MODIS vegetative cover and change products: validation and analysis. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2002.

Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R.., Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceli, C., Carroll, M., Eastman, J.C., Hansen, M., R.S. DeFries, R. S. (2002). Detection of land cover changes using MODIS 250m data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 336-350.

Descloitres, J., Giglio, L., Sohlberg, R., Owens, J., Justice, C., Townshend, J., Seaton, J., Crisologo, M., Carroll, M., and Finco, M. (2001). The MODIS Land Rapid Response project: a comprehensive suite of products to support U.S.D.A. Forest Service fire management. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2001.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., and Sohlberg, R.A. (2001). Using continuous fields of tree cover maps from satellite data to assess degradation within ecoregions, an example from South America. IGBP Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., and Sohlberg, R.A. (2001). Using continuous fields of tree cover to assess degradation within ecoregions: An example from South America. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Boston MA 2001.

Huang, C. and Townshend, J.R.G. (2001, in press). A stepwise regression tree for nonlinear approximation: applications to estimating sub-pixel land cover. International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Kalluri, S.N.V., Zhang, Z., JaJa, J., Liang, S. and Townshend, J.R.G. (2001). Characterizing land surface anisotropy from AVHRR data at a global scale using high performance computing. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22, 2171-2191.

Sohlberg, R., Zhan, X., DiMiceli, C., Carroll, M., Townshend, J., Eastman, J., Hansen, M., and DeFries, R. (2001). Change detection for flood and burning events using MODIS 250m data and the Vegetative Cover Conversion algorithm. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Boston MA 2001.

Townshend, J., Hansen, M., DeFries, R., Sohlberg, R., Desch, A., and White, B. (2001). Monitoring the extent of forests on national to global scales. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Boston MA 2001.

Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R.S., Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R.A., DiMiceli, C., Carroll, M.L., Hansen, M.C., and Eastman, J.C. (2001). A global alarm product for land cover change: MODIS 250 meter Vegetative Cover Conversion algorithm. IGBP Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001.

Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R.S., Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R.A., Hansen, M.C., DiMiceli, C., Carroll, M.L., and Eastman, J.C. (2001). MODIS 250m and 500m time series data for change detection and continuous representation of vegetation characteristics. Multitemp 2001, Trento, Italy.

Townshend, J.R.G., Sohlberg, R.A., Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S. (2001). MODIS vegetation Cover Products for Estimating Tree Cover and Monitoring Change. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2001.

Chan, J.C.W., DeFries, R.S., Zhan, X., Huang, C., and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). Texture Features For Land Cover Change Detection At 250m Resolution-An Application Of Machine Learning Feature Subset Selection . Proceedings of IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2000 , 3060-3063.

DeFries, R. Hansen, M., Townshend, J.R.G., Janetos, A.C., and Loveland, T.R. (2000). A new global 1km data set of percent tree cover derived from remote sensing . Global Change Biology, 6, 247-254.

DeFries, R., Hansen, M., and Townshend, J. (2000). Global continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: A linear mixture model applied to multiyear 8km AVHRR data . International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1389-1414.

El Saleous, N. Z., Vermote, E. F., Justice, C. O., Townshend, J. R., Tucker, C. J., & Goward, S. N., (2000). Improvements in the global biospheric record from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21(6-7), 1251-1277.

El Saleous, N., Vermote, E., Justice, C. O., Townshend, J. R.G., Tucker, C.J., and Goward, S.N. (2000). Improvements in the global biospheric record from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1251-1278.

Hansen M.C., Defries R.S., Townshend J.R.G., Sohlberg R. (2000). Global land cover classification at 1km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach . International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1331-1364.

Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R., and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). Continuous Fields of Vegetation from MODIS data. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA 2000.

Huang, C., Chan, C.W., Townshend, J.R.G., and DeFries, R. (2000). Impact of data dimension on the comparative performance of classification algorithms. IGARSS2000, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Huang, C., Townshend, J.R.G., Zhan, X., Hansen, M.C., DeFries, R.S., & Sohlberg, R. (2000). Detecting land cover changes based on their trajectories in the spectral space . IGARSS: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2000.

Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G., Vermote, E.F., Sohlberg, R., Descloitres, J., Roy, D., Hall, D., Salomonson, V., Riggs, G., Huete, A., Didan, K., Miura, T., Wan, Z., Strahler, A., Schaaf, C., Myneni, R., Running, S., Glassy, J., Nemani, R., El Saleous, (2000). Preliminary land surface products from the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS) . Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 00), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kalluri, S.N.V., Ja Ja, J., Bader, D.A. , Zhang, Z., Townshend, J.R.G and Fallah-Adl, H. (2000). High performance computing algorithms for land cover dynamics using remotely sensed data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1513-1536.

Sohlberg, R., Kalluri, S.N.V., DiMiceli, C.M., Vermote, E.F., El Saleous, N.Z., Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). Comparative advantages of MODIS 250m data for earth science applications . American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C. .

Teillet, P.M., El Saleous, N., Hansen, M.C., Eidenshink, J.C., Justice, C.O. and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). An Evaluation of the Global 1-km AVHRR Land Data Set. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21(10), 1987-2022.

Townshend, J.R.G., Huang, C., Kalluri, S.N.V., Defries, R.S., Liang, S. and Yang, K. (2000). Beware of Per-Pixel Characterization of Land Cover . International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 839-843.

Tucker, C. J. and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). Strategies for tropical forest deforestation assessment using satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 1461-1472.

Zhan, X. Jiang, Y. and Townshend, J.R.G. (2000). A simple assessment of the expansion of American urban areas from the 1970s to the 1990s using the North American Landscape Characterization Data Set. IGARSS2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3060-3063.

Zhan, X., Defries, R.S., Townshend, J.R.G., DiMiceliX C.M., Hansen, DeFries M.C., Huang, C., Sohlberg, R. (2000). The 250 m global land cover change product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers of NASA's Earth Observing System . International Journal of Remote Sensing , 21, 1433-1460.

Zhan, X., Sohlberg, R., Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R.S., Dimiceli, C., and Hansen, M.C. (2000). Vegetative Cover Conversion product from MODIS 250m data: Early results. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA 2000.

Zhan, Xiwu, Yongjing Jiang and Townshend, John R.G. (2000). A Simple Assessment Of The Expansion Of American Urban Areas From 1970s To 1990s Using The North American Landscape Characterization Data Set. . Proceedings of IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2000), Honolulu, Hawaii , 2867-2870.

DeFries, R., Townshend, J. R. G. and Hansen, M. (1999). Continuous fields of vegetation characteristics at the global scale. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 16911-16923.

Estes, J.E., Belward, A., Loveland, T., Scepan, J., Strahler, A., Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. (1999). The IGBP 1 km Land-Cover Data Set: The Way Forward. Photgrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 65(9), 1099-1106.

Zhan, X., Hansen, M., DeFries, R., Townshend, J.R.G, Huang, C., Dimiceli, C., & Sohlberg, R. (1999). MODIS Enhanced Land Cover and Land Cover Change Product, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents (ATBD) Version 2.0 . EOS project office document at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD , 94pp.

DeFries, R., Hansen, M., Townshend, J. R. G. and Sohlberg, R. (1998). Global land cover classifications at 8 km spatial resolution: The use of training data derived from Landsat imagery in decision tree classifiers . International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19, 3141-3168.

Hansen, M., DeFries, R., DiMiceli, C., Huang, C., Sohlberg, R., Zhan, X. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1998). Red and infrared space partitioning for detecting land cover change . IGARSS '98: 1998 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, Seattle, Washington, 1998 , V, 2512-2514.

Huang, C., Townshend, J.R.G.,Zhan, X., Hansen, M., DeFries, R., and Sohlberg, R. (1998). Developing the spectral trajectories of major land cover change processes . Proceedings of SPIE, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Applications, Beijing, China, 155-162.

Justice, C., Vermote, E., Townshend, J. R. G., Defries, R., Roy, D. P., Hall, D. K., Salomonson, V. V., Privette, J., Riggs, G., Strahler, A., Lucht, W., Myneni, R., Knjazihhin, Y., Running, S., Nemani, R., Wan, Z., Huete, A., van Leeuwen, W., Wolfe, R., (1998). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land remote sensing for global change research. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36(4), 1228-1249.[Full Text Available]

Zhan, X., Huang, C., Townshend, J.R.G., DeFries, R., Hansen, M., DiMiceli, C., Sohlberg, R., Hewson-Scardelletti, J. and Tompkins, A., (1998). Land cover change detection with change vector in the red and near-infrared reflectance space. . IGARSS' 98: 1998 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings. Seattle, Washington , II, 859-861.

Zhang, Z., Kalluri, S., Ja’ Ja’, J., Liang, S., and Townshend, J.R.G. (1998). High Performance Algorithms for Global Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Retrieval. IEEE Transactions in Computational Science and Engineering, 5(4), 16-29.

DeFries, R., Hansen, M. Steininger, M., Dubayah, R., Sohlberg, R. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1997). Sub-pixel forest cover in Central Africa from multisensor, multitemporal data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 60, 228-246.

DeFries, R., Townshend, J. and Los, S. (1997). Scaling land cover heterogeneity for global atmosphere-biosphere models. Scale in Remote Sensing and GIS, 231-246.

Skole, D.L., Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Janetos, A. C. (1997). A land cover change monitoring program: Strategy for an International effort. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2(2-3), 157-175.

DeFries, R., Field, C.R., Fung. I., Justice, C.O., Los, S., Matson, M.A., Matthews, E.A., Mooney, H.A., Potter, C.S. Prentice, K.A., Sellers, P.J., Townshend, J.R.G., Tucker, C.J., Ustin, S.L. and Vitousek, P.M. (1995). Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Towards continuous distributions of vegetation’s functional properties. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(D10), 20867-20882.

DeFries, R., Hansen, M. and Townshend, J.R.G. (1995). Global discrimination of land cover from metrics derived from AVHRR Pathfinder- data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment, 54, 209-222.

Hall, F.G., Townshend, J.R.G. and Ingman, T. (1995). Status of remote sensing algorithms for the estimation of land surface parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 51(1), 138-156.

Townshend, J.R.G. and Justice, C.O. (1995). Spatial variability of images and the monitoring of changes in the normalized difference vegetation index. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16(12), 2187-2196.

DeFries, R. and Townshend, J. R. G. (1994). Global land cover: Comparison of ground-based data sets to classifications with AVHRR data. Environmental Remote Sensing from Regional to Global Scales, 84-110.

DeFries, R. S., & Townshend, J. R. G. (1994). NDVI-derived land cover classifications at a global scale. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(17), 3567-3586.

Justice C. O., & Townshend, J. R. (1994). Data sets for global remote sensing: Lessons learnt. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(17), 3621-3639.

Townshend, J.R.G. (1994). Global data sets for land applications from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer: an introduction. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(17), 3319-3332.

Townshend, J.R.G., Justice C.O., Skole, D.,, C.O., Malingreau, J.-P., Cihlar J., Teillet, P., Sadowski, F. and Ruttenberg, S. (1994). The 1 km resolution global data set: needs of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15(17), 3417-3442.

Quarmby, N.A., Townshend, J.R.G., Settle, J.J., White, K.H., Milnes, M., Hindle, T.L. and Silleos, N. (1992). Linear mixture modelling applied to AVHRR data for crop area estimation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13(3), 415-426.

Townshend, J.R.G. (1992). The European contribution to the application of remote sensing to land cover classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13, 1319-1328.

Townshend, J.R.G., Justice, C.O., Gurney, C. and McManus, J. (1992). The effect of misregistration on the detection of vegetation change. Trans. Inst. of Electronic and Elec. Engineers, Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 30(5), 1054-1060.

Justice, C.O., Townshend, J.R.G. and Kalb V.T. (1991). Representation of vegetation by continental data sets derived from AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 5, 999-1021.

Townshend, J., Justice, C., Li, W., Gurney, C., & McManus, J. (1991). Global land cover classification by remote sensing -- Present capabilities and future possibilities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 35, 253-255.[Full Text Available]

Curator: Brandon Maccherone
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