MODIS MOD12 Land Cover and Land Cover Dynamics Products User Guide
Publications
Friedl, M.A., X. Zhang and E. Tsvetsinskaya 2003. Observing and deriving land cover properties and dynamics for use in weather and climate models. Preprints, Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, paper J8.1, 9-13 February, Long Beach California.
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.
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, in press, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
Strahler, A.H., Schaaf, C.B. and M.A. Friedl 2003. Albedo and land cover from MODIS on Terra and Aqua, Abstracts from the Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 5-8, 2003, New Orleans, LA.
Zhang, X., M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf and A.H. Strahler 2003. Urbanization and agricultural influences on global vegetation phenology observed using MODIS data, poster presentation, AGU Chapman Conference on Ecosystem Interactions with Land Use Change, June 14-18, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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.
Friedl, M.A. McIver, D and C.E. Brodley 2002 (Invited). Integration of domain knowledge in the form of ancillary map data into supervised classification of remotely sensed data, Proceedings of the the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol II, pp. 1038-1040.
Friedl, M.A., A.H. Strahler, X. Zhang and J.C.F. Hodges 2002. Mapping global land cover properties and dynamics using MODIS data, Eos. Trans. AGU, 83(47) Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract B61B-0715. Dec 6-10, 2002, San Francisco, CA.
Friedl, M.A., A. Strahler, X. Zhang, and J. Hodges 2002. The MODIS land cover product: multi-attribute mapping of global vegetation and land cover properties from time series MODIS data. , Proceedings of the the International International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol. IV, pp. 3199-3201.
Friedl, MA. and C.E. Brodley 2002 (Invited). Supervised learning from large, high dimensional remote sensing data sets, paper presented at Interface 2002, April 17-19, 2002, Montreal, Quebec.
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.
Myneni, R.B., S. Hoffman, Y. Knyazikhin, J. L. Privette, J. Glassy, Y. Tian, Y. Wang, X. Song, Y. Zhang, G. R. Smith, A. Lotsch, M. Friedl, J. T. Morisette, P. Votava, R. R. Nemani and S. W. Running 2002: Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 83 (1-2), pp. 214-231.
Zhang, X. Friedl, M.A., Schaaf, C.B., Strahler, A.H., Hodges, J.C.F, and F. Gao 2002: Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 84, pp. 471-575.
Zhang, M.A. Friedl, C. Schaaf, A.H. Strahler, F. Gao, and J. Hodges 2002. Using MODIS data to study the relationship between climatic spatial variability and vegetation phenology in northern high latitudes, Proceedings of the the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol. II, pp. 1149-1151.
Zhang, X. M.A. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf, A.H. Strahler, J. Hodges, and F. Gao 2002. Mapping global vegetation phenology using 1 km MODIS data, proceedings of the 15th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology Joint With the 16th International Congress on Biometeorology, 28-October-1 November, 2002; Kansas City Missouri, pp. 343-347.
Zhang, X, C. Schaaf, M.A. Friedl, A.H. Strahler, F. Gao, and J. Hodges 2002. MODIS Tassled cap transformation and its utility, Proceedings of the the International International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol. II, pp. 1149-1151.
Friedl, M.A. and A.H. Strahler 2001 Mapping global vegetation and land cover properties from MODIS, Eos. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 82, Fall meeting supplement, Abstract B31A-0076, pp. F190.
Friedl, M.A., D. McIver, J.C.F. Hodges, X. Zhang, S. Gopal, C.E. Woodcock and A.H. Strahler 2001. Land Cover Mapping from MODIS: First Results and Future Directions, 8th International Colloquium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, Aussois, Fance, Jan 8-12, 2001. pp. 3-8.
Friedl, M.A. Mapping Global Land Cover From MODIS: New Data Sets for Global Land Surface Parameterization (Invited), EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, supplement to Vol 82, no. 20, Boston, May 30, 2001.
M.A. Friedl, D.K. McIver, X. Zhang, J. Hodges, A. Schneider, A. Baccinni, A. Strahler, A. Cooper, F. Gao, C. Schaaf, and W. Liu 2001. Global land cover classification results from MODIS, proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2001, 9-13 July 2001, Sydney, Australia.
Hodges, J. C. F., Friedl, M. A., and Strahler, A. H., 2001, The MODIS
Global Land Cover Product: New Data Sets for Global Land Surface
Parameterization, Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference,
Amsterdam, 2001.
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.
McIver, D.K. and M.A. Friedl 2001. Beyond accuracy: Advantages of boosting in the classification of satellite remote sensing data for Earth science applications, First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, pp.37-44, April 5-7, 2001, Chicago, IL.
Schneider, A. D.L. McIver, M.A. Friedl and A.H. Strahler 2001. Classification of urban areas at continental scales using remotely sensed data, proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2001, 9-13 July 2001, Sydney, Australia.
Schneider, A. D.L. McIver, M.A. Friedl and C.E. Woodcock 2001.Mapping urban areas using coarse resolution remotely sensed data, proceedings of the IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion Over Urban Areas, 8-9 November 2001, Rome, pp. 136-140.
Zhang, X., Hodges, J. C. F., Schaaf, C., Friedl, M. A., Strahler, A. H.,
and Gao, F., 2001, Global Vegetation Phenology from AVHRR and MODIS Data,
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sydney, 2001.
Friedl, M., Muchoney, D., McIver, D., Gao, F., Hodges, J., and Strahler,
A., 2000, Characterization of North American Land Cover from NOAA-AVHRR Data
Using the EOS-MODIS Land Cover Classification Algorithm. Geophysical Research
Letters, Vol. 27, no. 7, pp977-980.
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, 21(5):1073-1077.
Friedl, M.A. and A.H. Strahler 2000: Mapping global land cover using the MODIS land cover classification algorithm: Recent progress and initial results, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (supplement to May 9, 2000), Washington, D.C., pp. S94.
Friedl, M.A., S. Gopal, D. Muchoney, and A.H. Strahler 2000: Global land cover mapping from MODIS: Algorithm design and preliminary results, Proceedings IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, 24-28 July 2000, pp. 527-529.
Friedl, M.A. and A.H. Strahler 2000. Land Cover Mapping from MODIS: Initial Results, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (supplement to Vol 18, no. 48) San Francisco, Dec 19, 2000. pp. F273
McIver, D.K and M.A. Friedl 2000: Local estimation of land cover classification quality using machine learning methods, Proceedings IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, 24-28 July 2000, pp. 3063-3065.
Strahler, Alan. H., Crystal B. Schaaf, Mark Friedl, Wolfgang Lucht, Feng Gao, Xiaoyang Zhang, Doug McIver, and John F. C. Hodges 2000. The Use of MODIS Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectances to Monitor Phenological Activity, Poster presentation , International Conference on Progress in Phenology: Monitoring, Data Analysis, and Global Change Impacts, October 4-6, 2000, Freising, Germany.
Zhang, X., Schaaf, C., Gao, F., Friedl, M., Strahler, A., and Hodges, J.,
Mapping Land Cover and Green Vegetation Abundance Using MODIS-Like Data:
A Case Study of New England. Proceedings of the 2000 International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Hawaii.
Borak, J. S., 1999, Identification of Land-Cover Change And Interannual Climate Variability In Africa from Satellite Imagery, Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University.
Borak, J. S. and A. H. Strahler, 1999, Feature selection and land cover classification of a MODIS-like data set for a semiarid environment. International Journal of Remote Sensing 20:919 938.
Brodley, C. E. and M. A. Friedl 1999: Identifying mislabeled training data,
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 11, pp. 131-167.
Fan, S., Strahler, A., Li, X., Hodges, J., EIFOV as a Function of View
Geometry for MODIS, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, (Submitted).
Friedl, M. A., C. E. Brodley, and A. H. Strahler, 1999. Maximizing land cover classification accuracies produced by decision trees at continental to global scales. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 37(2):969 977.
Friedl, M., W. Woodcock, S. Gopal, D. Muchoney, A. Strahler and C. Barker-Schaaf, 1999. A note on procedures for accuracy assessment in land cover maps derived from AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Friedl, M.A. and A.H. Strahler 1998: Improving land cover classification accuracies from decision tree algorithms, Abstracts, Association American Geographers Annual Meeting, 25-29 March, 1998, Boston, MA
Gopal, S., Woodcock, C. and A. Strahler, 1999. Fuzzy ARTMAP classification of global land cover from the 1 degree AVHRR data set. Remote Sensing of Environment 67:23 243.
Hodges, J. C. F., Schaaf, C., Muchoney, D., McIver, D., Friedl, M., Chi,
H., and Strahler, A., Data Simulation Impacts on MODIS Land Cover
Classification Development. Proceedings of the 1999 International Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium, Hamburg.
Mciver, D.K., J.C.F. Hodges, M.A. Friedl and A.H. Strahler 1999: Characterization of North American land Cover from NOAA-AVHRR data using the EOS-MODIS land cover classification algorithm, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (December 14 , 1999), San Francisco, pp. F360.
Muchoney. D. M., J. Borak, H. Chi, M. Friedl, J. Hodges, N. Morrow and A. Strahler, 1999. 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.
Muchoney, D., Strahler, A., Hodges, J., and LoCastro, J., 1999, The IGBP
DISCover Confidence Sites and the System for Terrestrial Ecosystem
Parameterization: Tools for Validating Global Land Cover Data.
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, v65 n9, pp. 1061-1067.
Carpenter, G., S. Gopal, S. Martens, and C. Woodcock, 1998. Evaluation of mixture estimation methods for vegetation mapping, Technical Report CAS/CNS-97 014, Boston University.
Friedl, M.A., and C. E. Brodley. 1998a. Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment 61: 399-409.
Friedl, M.A., C. E. Brodley, and A. H. Strahler. 1998b. Maximizing land cover classification accuracies produced by decision trees at continental to global scales, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., in press.
Gopal, S., C. Woodcock, and A. Strahler. 1998. Fuzzy ARTMAP classification of global land cover from the 1 degree AVHRR data set. Remote Sensing of Environment, submitted.
Muchoney. D.M., and A. Strahler. 1998. Developing Vegetation and Land Surface Parameters Using Classification Approaches. Proceedings of the 1998 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Vol. V, pp. 2518-2520.
Schaaf, C., Lucht, W., Strahler, A., Hodges, J., and d'Entremont, R.,
Relationship Between Land Surface Properties and BRDF/Albedo Parameters
Using Satellite Data. Proceedings of the 1998 International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seattle.
Carpenter, G., M. Gjaja, S. Gopal, and C. Woodcock, 1997. ART networks in remote sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 35(2):308 325.
Fischer, M. M., S. Gopal, P. Staufer, and K. Steinocher, 1997. Evaluation of neural pattern classifiers for a remote sensing application. Geographical Systems xx:xxx xxx.
Friedl, M. A., and C. E. Brodley, 1997. Decision tree classification of land cover from remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment 61:399 409.
Hyman, A. H. and M. J. Barnsley, 1997. On the potential for land cover mapping from multiple-view-angle (MVA) remotely sensed images. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18(11): 2471 2475.
Muchoney. D.M., J. Hodges, A. Hyman and A. Strahler. 1997. A Test Site Network for EOS-MODIS Land Cover Classification Based on Representativeness Criteria. Proceedings of the 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Singapore, August 3-8 1997.
Muchoney. D.M., J. Borak, H. Chi, S. Fan, M. Friedl, S. Gopal, J. Hodges, X. Li, N. Morrow and A. Strahler. 1997. A Vegetation and Land Cover Classification and Map of Central America from Multitemporal NOAA AVHRR Satellite Data. Boston University, 61 pp.
Myneni, R. B., R. Nemani, and S. W. Running, 1997, Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed PAR using radiative transfer models IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 35:1380 1393.
Abuelgasim, A., S. Gopal, J. Irons, and A. Strahler, 1996. Classification of ASAS multiangle and multispectral using artificial neural networks. Remote Sensing of Environment 57(2):79-87.
Brodley, C. E. and M. A. Friedl, 1996. Improving automated land cover mapping by identifying and eliminating mislabeled observations from training data. Proceedings of the 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 27 31, 1996, 2:1379 1381.
Brodley, C.E. and M.A. Friedl. 1996. Identifying and eliminating mislabeled training instances. Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Brodley, C.E., M.A. Friedl and A. H. Strahler 1996. New Approaches to Classification in Remote Sensing Using Homogeneous and Hybrid Decision Trees to Map Land Cover. Proc. IGARSS '96, pp.532 534.
Gopal, S. and C. E. Woodcock, 1996, Remote sensing of forest change using artificial neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 34:1 7.
Gopal, S., C. Woodcock, and A. H. Strahler, 1996, Fuzzy ARTMAP classification of global land cover from AVHRR data set. Proceedings of the 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 27 31, 1996, 1:538 540.
Lambin, E. F., 1996. Change detection at multiple temporal scales: Seasonal and annual variations in landscape variables. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62:931 938.
Lambin, E. F. and D. Ehrlich, 1996a. The surface temperature-vegetation index space for land cover and land-cover change analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17(3):463 487.
Lambin, E. F. and D. Ehrlich, 1996b. Broad scale land-cover classification and interannual climatic variability. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17(5):845 862.
Lenney, M. P., C. E. Woodcock and H. Hamdi, 1996. The status of agricultural lands in Egypt: The use of multitemporal NDVI features derived from Landsat TM. Remote Sensing of Environment 56(1):8 xxx.
Muchoney, D. M., J. Borak and A. Strahler, 1996. Global land cover classification training and validation issues and requirements. Proceedings 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 27 31, 1996, 1:233 235.
Strahler, A., J. Townshend, D. Muchoney, J. Borak, M. Friedl, S. Gopal, A. Hyman, A. Moody, and E. Lambin, 1996, MODIS Land Cover and Land-Cover Change Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), Version 4.1.
Mayaux, P. and E. F. Lambin, 1995. Estimation of tropical forest area from coarse spatial resolution data: A two-step correction function for proportional errors due to spatial aggregation. Remote Sensing of Environment 53:1 16.
Moody, A. and C. E. Woodcock, 1995. Calibration-based methods for correcting coarse resolution estimates of land-cover proportions. Proceedings 61st Annual Convention, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 27-March 2, 1995, 3:684 693.
Moody, A. and C. E. Woodcock, 1995. The influence of scale and spatial characteristics of landscapes on land-cover mapping using remote sensing. Landscape Ecology 10:363 379.
Strahler, A. H., A. Moody and E. Lambin, 1995. MODIS Land Cover Product: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), Version 3.0.
Abuelgasim, A. and S. Gopal, 1994. Classification of multiangle and multispectral ASAS data using a hybrid neural network model. Proceedings of the 1994 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Aug. 8 12, 1994, Pasadena, CA, 3:1670 1675.
Collins, J. B. and C. E. Woodcock, 1994. Change detection using the Gramm-Schmidt transformation applied to mapping forest mortality. Remote Sensing of Environment 50:267 279.
Gopal, S., D. M. Sklarew, and E. Lambin, 1994, Fuzzy-neural networks in multitemporal classification of land cover change in the Sahel. New Tools for Spatial Analysis, Proceedings of the Workshop, Lisbon, 18 to 20 November 1993, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, pp. 69 81.
Lambin, E. F and A. H. Strahler, 1994a. Indicators of land-cover change for change-vector analysis in multitemporal space at coarse spatial scales. International Journal Remote Sensing 15:2099 2119.
Lambin, E. F. and A. H. Strahler, 1994b. Change-vector analysis: A tool to detect and categorize land-cover change processes using high temporal-resolution satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment 48:231 244.
Michaelsen, J., D. S. Schimel, M. A. Friedl, F. W. Davis and R. C. Dubayah, 1994. Regression tree analysis of satellite and terrain data to guide vegetation sampling and surveys. Journal of Vegetation Science 5:673 686.
Moody, A. and A. H. Strahler, 1994. Characteristics of composited AVHRR data and problems in their classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing 15(17):3473 3491.
Moody, A. and C. E. Woodcock, 1994. Scale-dependent errors in the estimation of land-cover proportions: Implications for global land-cover datasets. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 60:585 594.
Muchoney, D. M. and B. Haack, 1994. Change detection for monitoring forest defoliation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 60(10):pp. 1243 1251.
Woodcock, C. E., J. Collins, S. Gopal, V. Jakabhazy, X. Li, S. Macomber, S. Ryherd, Y. Wu, V. J. Harward, J. Levitan, and R. Warbington, 1994. Mapping forest vegetation using Landsat TM imagery and a canopy reflectance model. Remote Sensing of Environment 50:240 254.
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