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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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Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante,Iris Roitman,T. Mitchell Aide,Ane Alencar,Liana O. Anderson,Liana O. Anderson,Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,Gregory P. Asner,Jos Barlow,Jos Barlow,Erika Berenguer,Jeffrey Q. Chambers,Marcos Heil Costa,Thierry Fanin,Laerte Guimarães Ferreira,Joice Ferreira,Michael Keller,Michael Keller,William E. Magnusson,Lucia Morales-Barquero,Douglas C. Morton,Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto,Michael W. Palace,Carlos A. Peres,Divino Silvério,Susan E. Trumbore,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira +26 more
TL;DR: Improving monitoring strategies will allow a better understanding of the role of forest dynamics in climate-change mitigation, adaptation, and carbon cycle feedbacks, thereby reducing uncertainties in models of the key processes in the carbon cycle.
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Active fire detection and characterization with the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER)
Louis Giglio,Ivan Csiszar,Ágoston Restás,Jeffrey T. Morisette,Wilfrid Schroeder,Douglas C. Morton,Christopher O. Justice +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an automated fire detection algorithm for the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) sensor capable of mapping actively burning fires at 30-m spatial resolution.
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Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia
TL;DR: Routine fire activity in Mato Grosso coincided with annual periods of low night-time relative humidity, suggesting a strong climate control on both single and repeated fires.
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Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes
Patrick Meyfroidt,Kimberly M. Carlson,Matthew E. Fagan,Matthew E. Fagan,Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez,Marcia N. Macedo,Lisa M. Curran,Ruth DeFries,George A. Dyer,Holly K. Gibbs,Eric F. Lambin,Eric F. Lambin,Douglas C. Morton,Valentina Robiglio +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared six case studies of commodity crop expansion within forested tropical regions and found that between 1.7% and 89.5% of new commodity cropland was sourced from forestlands.
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DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry,Nicolas Lauret,Tiangang Yin,Lucas Landier,Abdelaziz Kallel,Z. Malenovsky,Ahmad Al Bitar,Josselin Aval,Sahar Benhmida,Jianbo Qi,Ghania Medjdoub,J. Guilleux,E. Chavanon,Bruce D. Cook,Douglas C. Morton,Nektarios Chrysoulakis,Zina Mitraka +16 more
TL;DR: DART theory is briefly introduced and recent advances in simulated sensors (LiDAR and cameras with finite field of view) and modeling mechanisms (atmosphere, specular reflectance with polarization and chlorophyll fluorescence) are presented.