A general overview of satellite product with a specific interest on the NASA Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data product will be presented. Detailed discussion will be made on the MODIS fire product.
Prof Christopher Justice is a Professor and Dept. Chairman of Geography at the University of Maryland. Currently, Prof. Justice is a Program Scientist for NASA Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program. Most recently, he became the Co-Director for the Center for Global Agricultural Monitoring Research. Current research of Prof Justice 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. Prof Justice received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading, United Kingdom, in 1977.