- Giglio, Louis, Luigi Boschetti, David P. Roy, Joanne V. Hall, Maria Zubkova, Michael Humber, Haiyan Huang, and Vladyslav Oles. "The NASA VIIRS burned area product, global validation, and intercomparison with the NASA MODIS burned area product." Remote Sen
- van der Werf, Guido R., James T. Randerson, Dave van Wees, Yang Chen, Louis Giglio, Joanne Hall, Vernooij Roland et al. "Landscape fire emissions from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5)." Scientific Data 12, no. 1 (2025): 1870.
- Louis Giglio, Luigi Boschetti, David P. Roy, Joanne V. Hall, Maria Zubkova, Michael Humber, Haiyan Huang, Vladyslav Oles, "The NASA VIIRS Burned Area Product, Global Validation, and Intercomparison With the NASA MODIS Burned Area Product,"Remote Sensing o
- Zubkova, M., Humber, M., Giglio, L. 2023. Is global fire activity declining due to cropland expansion? How much do we know based on remotely sensed data? Int. J. Remote Sens., 44, 4.
- Vadrevu, K., Eaturu, A., Casadaban, E., Lasko, K., Schroeder, W., Biswas, S., Giglio, L. and Justice, C. 2022.Spatial variations in vegetation fires and emissions in South and Southeast Asia during COVID-19 and pre-pandemic. Scientific Reports, 12(1)1-21
- Zubkova, M.; Boschetti, L.; Abatzoglou, J.; Giglio, L. 2022. Fire regions as environmental niches: a new paradigm to define potential fire regimes in Africa and Australia. JGR Biogeosciences.
Comment on Otón et al. Analysis of Trends in the FireCCI Global Long Term Burned Area Product (1982–2018) - Humber, M., Zubkova, M. and Giglio, L., 2022. A remote sensing-based approach to estimating the fire spread rate parameter for individual burn patch extraction. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(2), pp.649-673.
- Zubkova, M.; Giglio, L.; Humber, M.; Hall, J.H.; Ellicott, E. Conflict and Climate: Drivers of Fire Activity in Syria in the Twenty-First Century. 2021. Earth Interactions, 25(1): 119-135
- Hall, J.V., Zibstev, S.V., Giglio, L., Skakun, S., Myroniuk, V., Zhuravel, O., Goldammer, J.G. and Kussul, N., 2021. Environmental and political implications of underestimated cropland burning in Ukraine. Environmental Research Letters.
- Vadrevu, K.P., Lasko, K., Giglio, L., Schroeder, W., Biswas, S. and Justice, C., 2019. Trends in vegetation fires in south and southeast Asian countries. Scientific reports, 9(1), pp.1-13.
- Giglio, L., and Roy, D. P., 2020, On the outstanding need for a long-term, multi-decadal, validated and quality assessed record of global burned area: Caution in the use of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data.
- Boschetti, L.; Roy, D.P.; Giglio, L.; Huang, H.; Zubkova, M.; Humber, M.L., “Global validation of the Collection 6 MODIS burned area product,” Remote Sensing of Environment. In Press.
- Humber, M.L.; Boschetti, L.; Giglio, L., “Assessing the shape accuracy of coarse resolution burned area identifications in the western United States,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. In Press.
- Vadrevu, K.P. and Ohara, T., 2020. Focus on land use cover changes and environmental impacts in South/Southeast Asia. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), p.100201.
- Humber, M.L.; Boschetti, L.; Giglio, L.; Justice, C.O., “Spatial and Temporal Intercomparison of Four Global Burned Area Products,” International Journal of Digital Earth, Jan. 2018.
- Giglio, L.; Boschetti, L.; Roy, D.P.; Humber, M.L.; Justice, C.O., “The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product,” Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 217, Aug. 2018
- Hall, J. V., Loboda, T. V., Giglio, L., & McCarty, G. W. (2016). A MODIS-based burned area assessment for Russian croplands: Mapping requirements and challenges. Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, 506-521
- Hall, J. V., Loboda, T. V., Giglio, L., & McCarty, G. W. (2016). A MODIS-based burned area assessment for Russian croplands: Mapping requirements and challenges. Remote Sensing of Environment, 184, 506-521
- Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, Lasko, K., Giglio, L., and Chris Justice. 2015. Vegetation Fires, absorbing aerosols and smoke plume characteristics in diverse biomass burning regions of Asia. Environmental Research Letters. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/1
Giglio, Louis
Degrees
Geography, University of Maryland, 2006 - PhD
Applied Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1999 - MS
Physics, University of Maryland, 1988 - BS
Areas of Interest
- Remote sensing of active fires and burned area
- Global fire emissions
- Satellite direct broadcast applications
Louis Giglio
Research Professor
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