MODIS Land Cover GroupDepartment of Geography and Environment at Boston University

Publications and Documentation

The links below provide electronic versions of the key peer reviewed papers that have been published in support of the MODIS Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Products. These papers provide technical details related to algorithm development and that are not included in descriptions provided on this webs-site. Key algorithm-related papers are provided in bold. Papers making use of the products in modeling and other applications are also included.

• Myneni, R.B., Yang, W., Nemani, R.R., Huete, A.R., Dickinson, R.e., Knyazikhin, Didan, K., Fu, R., Negron Juarez,, R.I., Saatchi, S.S., Hashimoto, H. Ichii, K., Shabanov, N.V., Tan, B., Ratana, P., Privette, J.L., Morisette, J.T., Vermote, E.F., Roy, D.P., Wolfe, R.E., Friedl, M.A., Running, S.W., Votava, P., El-Saleous, N., Devadiga, S., Su, Y. and V.V. Salomonson 2007. Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests, in press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Zhang X., Friedl M.A., and C.B. Schaaf 2006. Global vegetation phenology from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Evaluation of global patterns and comparison with in situ measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, G04017, doi: 10.1029/2006JG00217.
• Zhang X., Friedl M.A., Schaaf C.B., and A.H. Strahler 2005. Monitoring the response of vegetation phenology to precipitation in Africa by coupling MODIS and TRMM instruments , Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110 No. D12: Art. No. D12103 JUN 17 2005.
• Zhang, X., M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf, A.H. Strahler and A. Schneider, 2004. The footprint of urban climates on vegetation phenology. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 31, L12209, doi:10.1029/2004GL020137.
• Baccini, A, M.A. Friedl, C.E. Woodcock and R. Warbington 2004. Forest biomass estimation over regional scales using multisource data, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 31, L10501, doi:10.1029/2004GL019782.
• Tian, Y., R. Dickinson, L. Zhou, K.W. Oleson, S. Levis, R. Myneni, M.A. Friedl, C. Schaaf, and M. Carrol. 2004. Land boundary conditions from MODIS data and consequences for the albedo of a climate model, Geophysical Research Letters, 31 (5): Art. No. L05504.
• Zhang, X., M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf and A.H. Strahler 2004. Climate Controls on vegetation phenological patterns in northern mid- and high latitudes inferred from MODIS data, Global Change Biology, Vol 10, pp. 1133-1145.
• Tian, Y., Dickinson, R., Zhou, L., Zeng, X., Dia, Y., Myneni, R., Knyazikhin, Y., Zhang, X., Friedl, M.A., Yu, H., Wanru, W. and M. Shaikh 2004. Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of LAI/FPAR from MODIS and the common land model, Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, Vol. 109, No. D1, D01103, doi 10.1029/2003JD003777.
• Schneider, A., Friedl, M.A., McIver, D.K. and C.E. Woodcock 2003. Mapping urban areas by fusing multiple sources of coarse resolution remotely sensed data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol 69, no. 12, pp 1377-1386.
• Lotsch, A., Y. Tian, M.A. Friedl and R.B. Myneni 2003. Land cover mapping in support of LAI/FPAR retrievals from EOS MODIS and MISR. Classification methods and sensitivities to errors, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(10):1997-2016.
• Zhang, X. Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Hodges, J.C.F, and F. Gao 2003: Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 84, pp. 471-575.
• Friedl, M.A., D. K. McIver, J. C. F. Hodges, X. Y. Zhang, D. Muchoney, A. H. Strahler, C. E. Woodcock, S. Gopal, A. Schneider, A. Cooper, A. Baccini,F. Gao, C. Schaaf 2002: Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 83 (1-2), pp. 287-302.
• Mciver, D.K. and M.A. Friedl 2002. Using prior probabilities in decision-tree classification of remotely sensed data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 81, pp. 253-261.
• McIver, D.K. and M.A. Friedl 2001. Estimating pixel-scale land cover classification confidence using non-parametric machine learning methods, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Vol 39(9), pp. 1959-1968.
• Friedl, M.A., D. Muchoney, D.K. McIver, A.H. Strahler, and J.C.F. Hodges 2000: Characterization of North American land cover from AVHRR Data, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 977-980.
• Friedl, M.A., C. Woodcock, S. Gopal, D. Muchoney, A.H.Strahler, and C. Barker-Schaaf 2000. A note on procedures used for accuracy assessment in land cover maps derived from AVHRR data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 21, pp.1073-1077.
• Muchoney, D., Borak, J, Chi, H., Friedl, M.A., Hodges, J. Morrow, N. and A.H. Strahler 2000: Application of the MODIS global supervised classification model to vegetation and land cover mapping of Central America, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 21, no 6 & 7, pp. 1115-1138.
• Brodley, C.E. and M.A. Friedl 1999: Identifying mislabeled training data, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 11, pp. 131-167.
• Friedl, M.A., Brodley, C.E. and A.H. Strahler 1999: Maximizing land cover classification accuracies at continental to global scales, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 37, pp. 969-977.
• Friedl, M.A. and C.E. Brodley 1997: Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 61, pp. 399-409.

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