maiac_processing: Script and functions to process daily MODIS MAIAC data to BRDF-corrected 16-day and monthly mosaic composites.

Contact

Ricardo Dal'Agnol da Silva, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA
e-mail: ricds@hotmail.com
https://ricds.wordpress.com/

Code use

This code is open-source under a CC-BY-4.0 license (https://github.com/ricds/maiac_processing/blob/master/LICENSE).

Feel free to use it, just make sure you cite it:

Dalagnol, R., & Wagner, F. H. (2022). maiac_processing: Script and functions to process daily MODIS MAIAC data to BRDF-corrected 16-day and monthly mosaic composites. (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6561351

Dataset generated using the script:

Dalagnol, Ricardo; Wagner, Fabien Hubert; Galvão, Lênio Soares; Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz. (2019). "The MANVI product: MODIS (MAIAC) nadir-solar adjusted vegetation indices (EVI and NDVI) for South America". (Version v1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3159488

Dalagnol, Ricardo; Galvão, Lênio Soares; Wagner, Fabien Hubert; Moura, Yhasmin Mendes; Gonçalves, Nathan; Wang, Yujie; Lyapustin, Alexei; Yang, Yan; Saatchi, Sassan; Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz. (2022). "AnisoVeg: Anisotropy and Nadir-normalized MODIS MAIAC datasets for satellite vegetation studies in South America". (Version v1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3878879

Papers that used this script or dataset generated by it:

Gatti, Luciana V., Luana S. Basso, John B. Miller, Manuel Gloor, Lucas Gatti Domingues, Henrique L. G. Cassol, Graciela Tejada, et al. 2021. “Amazonia as a Carbon Source Linked to Deforestation and Climate Change.” Nature 595 (7867): 388–93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03629-6.

Souza, Ranieli Dos Anjos De, Valdir Moura, Rennan Andres Paloschi, Renata Gonçalves Aguiar, Alberto Dresch Webler, and Laura De Simone Borma. 2022. “Assessing Drought Response in the Southwestern Amazon Forest by Remote Sensing and In Situ Measurements.” Remote Sensing 14 (7): 1733. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071733.

Signori-Müller, Caroline, Rafael S. Oliveira, Fernanda de Vasconcellos Barros, Julia Valentim Tavares, Martin Gilpin, Francisco Carvalho Diniz, Manuel J. Marca Zevallos, et al. 2021. “Non-Structural Carbohydrates Mediate Seasonal Water Stress across Amazon Forests.” Nature Communications 12 (1): 2310. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22378-8. Gatti, Luciana V., Camilla L. Cunha, Luciano Marani, Henrique L. G. Cassol, Cassiano Gustavo Messias, Egidio Arai, A. Scott Denning, et al. 2023. “Increased Amazon Carbon Emissions Mainly from Decline in Law Enforcement.” Nature 621 (7978): 318–23. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06390-0.

Zhang, H., Hagan, D. F. T., Dalagnol, R., & Liu, Y. (2021). Forest Canopy Changes in the Southern Amazon during the 2019 Fire Season Based on Passive Microwave and Optical Satellite Observations. Remote Sensing, 13(12), 2238. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122238

Gonçalves, N. B., Lopes, A. P., Dalagnol, R., Wu, J., Pinho, D. M., & Nelson, B. W. (2020). Both near-surface and satellite remote sensing confirm drought legacy effect on tropical forest leaf phenology after 2015/2016 ENSO drought. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237(April 2019), 111489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111489

Bontempo, E., Dalagnol, R., Ponzoni, F., & Valeriano, D. (2020). Adjustments to sif aid the interpretation of drought responses at the caatinga of Northeast Brazil. Remote Sensing, 12(19), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193264

Fonseca, L. D. M., Dalagnol, R., Malhi, Y., Rifai, S. W., Costa, G. B., Silva, T. S. F., Da Rocha, H. R., Tavares, I. B., & Borma, L. S. (2019). Phenology and Seasonal Ecosystem Productivity in an Amazonian Floodplain Forest. Remote Sensing, 11(13), 1530. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11131530

Anderson, L. O., Ribeiro Neto, G., Cunha, A. P., Fonseca, M. G., Mendes de Moura, Y., Dalagnol, R., Wagner, F. H., & Aragão, L. (2018). Vulnerability of Amazonian forests to repeated droughts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1760), 20170411. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0411

Rosan, Thais M., Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Imma Oliveras, Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Emanuel Gloor, and Fabien H. Wagner. 2019. “Extensive 21st-Century Woody Encroachment in South America’s Savanna.” Geophysical Research Letters 46 (12): 6594–6603. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082327.

Dalagnol, R., Wagner, F. H., Galvão, L. S., Nelson, B. W., & Aragão, L. (2018). Life cycle of bamboo in the southwestern Amazon and its relation to fire events. Biogeosciences, 15(20), 6087–6104. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6087-2018