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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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Validation of GOES and MODIS active fire detection products using ASTER and ETM+ data
Wilfrid Schroeder,E. M. Prins,Louis Giglio,Ivan Csiszar,Christopher C. Schmidt,Jeffrey T. Morisette,Douglas C. Morton +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors implemented a comprehensive analysis to validate the MODIS and GOES satellite active fire detection products (MOD14 and WFABBA, respectively) and characterize their major sources of omission and commission errors which have important implications for a large community of fire data users.
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Daily and 3‐hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide
Mingquan Mu,James T. Randerson,G. R. van der Werf,Louis Giglio,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Douglas C. Morton,G. J. Collatz,Ruth DeFries,Edward J. Hyer,E. M. Prins,David W. T. Griffith,Debra Wunch,G. C. Toon,Vanessa Sherlock,Paul O. Wennberg +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an approach for representing synoptic and diurnal-scale temporal variability in fire emissions for the Global Fire Emissions Database version 3 (GFED3), disaggregated monthly GFED3 emissions during 2003-2009 to a daily time step using MODIS-derived measurements of active fires from Terra and Aqua satellites.
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Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART 5) for modeling airborne and satellite spectroradiometer and LIDAR acquisitions of natural and urban landscapes
J.P. Gastellu Etchegorry,Tiangang Yin,Nicolas Lauret,T. Cajgfinger,Timothy G. Gregoire,Eloi Grau,Jean-Baptiste Féret,Mailys Lopes,J. Guilleux,Gérard Dedieu,Z. Malenovsky,Bruce D. Cook,Douglas C. Morton,J. Rubio,Sylvie Durrieu,G. Cazanave,Emmanuel Martin,T. Ristorcelli +17 more
TL;DR: The Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer model is presented and its latest functionality for simulating imaging spectroscopy of natural and urban landscapes with atmosphere, including the perspective projection of airborne acquisitions and LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) waveform and photon counting signals are presented.
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Beyond 3-D: The New Spectrum of Lidar Applications for Earth and Ecological Sciences
Jan U. H. Eitel,Bernhard Höfle,Lee A. Vierling,Antonio Abellán,Gregory P. Asner,Jeffrey S. Deems,Craig Glennie,Philip C. Joerg,A. L. LeWinter,Troy S. Magney,Gottfried Mandlburger,Douglas C. Morton,Jörg Müller,Jörg Müller,Kerri T. Vierling +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent advances based on repeat lidar collections and analysis of LRI data to highlight novel applications of lidar remote sensing beyond 3D, and outline the potential and current challenges of time and LRI information from lidar sensors to expand the scope of research applications.
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Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia.
Kimberly M. Carlson,Robert Heilmayr,Holly K. Gibbs,Praveen Noojipady,David N. Burns,Douglas C. Morton,Nathalie F. Walker,Gary D. Paoli,Claire Kremen +8 more
TL;DR: It was found that certification significantly reduced deforestation, but not fire or peatland clearance, among participating plantations, and certification had no causal impact on forest loss in peatlands or active fire detection rates.