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This Chapter summarizes methodologies of detecting land fires from the TRMM/VIRS measurements. The TRMM science data and information system (TSDIS) fire products include global images of daily hot spots and monthly fire counts at 0.5°×0.5° resolution, as well as text files that details necessary information of all fire pixels. These products have been archived since January 1, 1998. Diurnal and seasonal cycles of TRMM land fire products in the Eastern United States, Africa, as well as the South America and Asia, are discussed and compared to other satellite products. Statistical methods were applied to the TSDIS fire products as well as to the total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) aerosol index products for a period of seven years from January 1998 to December 2004. The variability of global atmospheric aerosol is consistent with the fire variations during this period. The TRMM fire products were also compared to the coincident TRMM rainfall and other rainfall products to investigate the interaction between rainfall and fire.
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Ji, Y., Stocker, E.F. (2013). Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Land Fires from TRMM Observations. In: Qu, J.J., Sommers, W.T., Yang, R., Riebau, A.R. (eds) Remote Sensing and Modeling Applications to Wildland Fires. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32530-4_12
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