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Douglas C. Morton
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 136
Citations - 17238
Douglas C. Morton is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 124 publications receiving 14076 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglas C. Morton include University of Maryland, College Park & National Institute for Space Research.
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Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season
Douglas C. Morton,Jyoteshwar Nagol,Claudia C. Carabajal,Jacqueline Rosette,Michael W. Palace,Bruce D. Cook,Eric Vermote,David J. Harding,Peter North +8 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the apparent green up of Amazon forests in optical remote sensing data resulted from seasonal changes in near-infrared reflectance, an artefact of variations in sun-sensor geometry, and that correcting this bidirectional reflectance effect eliminated seasonally changes in surface reflectance.
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Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia
G. R. van der Werf,Jan Dempewolf,Simon N. Trigg,James T. Randerson,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Louis Giglio,Daniel Murdiyarso,Wouter Peters,Douglas C. Morton,G. J. Collatz,A. J. Dolman,Ruth DeFries +11 more
TL;DR: It is found that average fire emissions from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea during 2000–2006 were comparable to fossil fuel emissions, and land manager responses to expected shifts in tropical precipitation may critically determine the strength of climate–carbon cycle feedbacks during the 21st century.
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NASA Goddards LiDAR, Hyperspectral and Thermal (G-LiHT) Airborne Imager
Bruce D. Cook,Lawrence A. Corp,Ross Nelson,Elizabeth M. Middleton,Douglas C. Morton,Joel McCorkel,Jeffrey G. Masek,Kenneth J. Ranson,Vuong Ly,Paul Montesano +9 more
TL;DR: G-LiHT data enhance the ability to validate data from existing satellite missions and support NASA Earth Science research, and the data processing system and higher-level data products that are freely distributed under NASA’s Data and Information policy are described.
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Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests.
Jeffrey Q. Chambers,Gregory P. Asner,Douglas C. Morton,Liana O. Anderson,Sassan Saatchi,Fernando Del Bon Espírito-Santo,Michael W. Palace,Carlos Souza +7 more
TL;DR: Issues that are addressed here include forest response to altered precipitation regimes, regional disturbance and land-use patterns, invasive species and landscape carbon balance.
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Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach
Eric F. Lambin,Eric F. Lambin,Holly K. Gibbs,L. Ferreira,Ricardo Grau,Philippe Mayaux,Patrick Meyfroidt,Douglas C. Morton,Thomas Rudel,Ignacio Gasparri,Jacob Munger +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a bottom-up approach by analyzing detailed, fine scale observations with expert knowledge for six countries or regions that are often assumed to include most of potentially available cropland.