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  ·        the VEGETATION 2000 conference (list of content of the proceedings)

The VEGETATION system

M. Arnaud and M. Leroy, 1991 SPOT4 : a new Generation of SPOT satellites, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 46 : 205-215,

Pulitini, P., M. Barillot, T. Gentet, and JF Reulet, 1994 The Végétation payload, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Space Optics, Garmish, 1994.

Rahman H., Dedieu G. 1994: SMAC : a simplified method for the atmospheric correction of satellite measurements in the solar spectrum Int. J. Remote Sensing, vol.15, no.1, 123-143.

Xavier Hugon, O. Amore, Sebastien Cortial, Cl. Lenoble, and M. Villard 1995 Near-room operating temperature SWIR InGaAs detectors in progress Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 2552, 738-747 (1995)

Kurtis J. Thome, John H. LaMarr, Karen Scott, and Christine Gustafson-Bold 1998 Methods for the calibration of SPOT4 HRVIR and vegetation Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3439, 439-449 (1998)

Henry, P., 1999The VEGETATION System: a global Monitoring System onboard SPOT4’, Proc. of the Euro-Asia Space Week on Cooperation in Space, ESA SP-430, 233-239,

Phil M. Teillet, Gunar Fedosejevs, Robert P. Gauthier, Raymond T. Shin,Norman T. O'Neill, Kurtis J. Thome , Stuart F. Biggar, Herb T. Ripley, Aime Meygret 1999, Radiometric calibration of multiple Earth observation sensors using airborne hyperspectral data at the Newell County rangeland test site Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 3750Earth Observing Systems IV, William L. Barnes, Editor, September 1999, pp. 470-481

Duchemin B. , Maisongrande P., Berthelot B., Dubegny C., Dedieu G. , Leroy M. 2000: A New Algorithm for Atmospheric Correction of Surface Reflectances Delivered by the Vegetation System IGARSS 2000 : International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, poster session, Honolulu (Hawaii, USA), 24-28 July 2000.

Françoise Viallefont-Robinet, Patrice Henry 2000 VEGETATION MTF in-flight measurement using HRVIR. SPIE proceedings vol. 4135 Earth Observing systems pp 314-325.

Passot X., 2001: VEGETATION image processing methods in the CTIV. Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate-Italy, 3-6 April 2000 , Saint G. Ed, CNES - Toulouse & JRC - Ispra, pp 15-22

Henry P. & Meygret A. 2001: CALIBRATION OF VEGETATION CAMERAS ON-BOARD SPOT4. Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate-Italy, 3-6 April 2000 , Saint G. Ed, CNES - Toulouse & JRC - Ispra, pp 23-32

SYLVANDER S., HENRY P., BASTIEN-THIRY C., MEUNIER F.,FUSTER D., 2001: VEGETATION Geometrical Image Quality. Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate-Italy, 3-6 April 2000 , Saint G. Ed, CNES - Toulouse & JRC - Ispra, pp 33-44

Maisongrande Ph, Duchemin, B., Berthelot, B., Dubegny C., Dedieu G. Leroy M. 2001: a new algorithm concept for atmospheric correction of surface reflectances delivered by the VEGETATION system. Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate

Duchemin, B., Maisongrande, P., Dedieu, G ., Leroy, M., Roujean, J .L., Bicheron, P., Hautecoeur, O., Lacaze, R., 2001. A 10-days compositing method accounting for bidirectional effects . Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate-Italy, 3-6 April 2000 , Saint G. Ed, CNES - Toulouse & JRC - Ispra, pp 313 – 318

Lissens G., Kempeneers P., and Fierens F. 2001: Development of a cloud, snow and cloud shadow mask for VEGETATION imagery. Proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate-Italy, 3-6 April 2000 , Saint G. Ed, CNES - Toulouse & JRC - Ispra, pp 303 – 306

Christophe Miesch, Francois Cabot, Xavier Briottet, and Patrice J. Henry 2001 Assimilation of satellite data over the Sahara desert for intercalibration of optical satellite sensors Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4540, 469-475 (2001)

Duchemin, B., and Ph. Maisongrande (2002). Normalisation of directional effects in 10-day global syntheses derived from VEGETATION/SPOT. I Investigation of concepts based on simulation. Remote Sensing of Environment 81: 90-100.

Duchemin, B., Berthelot, B., Dedieu, G., Leroy, M. and Maisongrande, Ph. (2002). Normalisation of directional effects in 10-day global syntheses derived from VEGETATION/SPOT. II Validation of an operational method on actual data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment 81: 101-113.

Sylvander, S., I. Albert-Grousset and P. Henry 2003Geometrical Performances of the VEGETATION Products - 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 573 – 575

Maisongrande, P., B. Duchemin, G. Dedieu, 2003 VEGETATION/SPOT - An Operational Mission for the Earth Monitoring : Presentation of New Standard Products. International Journal of Remote Sensing. In press

D. Six (1), M. Fily (1), P. Henry (2), S. Alvain (3), P. Goloub (4) 2003 CALIBRATION OF THE SPOT4/VEGETATION RADIOMETER OVER THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 00009, 2003

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Methods & tools

M. Adair1, J. Cihlar1, B. Park1, G. Fedosejevs1, A. Erickson1, R. Keeping2, D. Stanley2, P. Hurlburt3 2001 GeoComp n, an advanced system for generating products from coarse and medium resolution optical satellite data. Part 1: System characterisation Int. Jl. Remote Sensing, Revised: September 21, 200

Bartholomé E., V. Gond and S. Morimondi, 2001, Improving access to VEGETATION data: some results of on-going experiments, VEGETATION 2000 conference Proceedings, Saint G. Ed, JRC, Ispra,

Carmona-Moreno C., J.A. Moreno-Ruiz, E. Bartholomé and Th. Negre, 2000, Space-Vegetation Software : A remote sensing tool for environmental applications at regional level, in Remote Sensing in the 21st Century, Editor : José-Luis CASANOVA, A.A. BALKEMA. ISBN 90-5809-0965. 2000.

Carmona-Moreno C. 2003 VEGETATION L-Band image processing system. Geometric Performances and Spatio-Temporal Stability, International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press

J. M. B. Carreiras A1, J. M. C. Pereira A2, Y. E. Shimabukuro A3, D. Stroppiana, 2003, Evaluation of compositing algorithms over the Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 17 3427 - 3440

A. Cabral A1, M. J. P. De Vasconcelos , J. M. C. Pereira , É. Bartholomé A3, P. Mayaux 2003 Multi-temporal compositing approaches for SPOT-4 VEGETATION International Journal of Remote Sensing 3343 - 3350 Volume 24, Number 16, 3343-3350

Carmona-Moreno C. and A. Palacios, 2003, Low Cost data processing ground segment conception for global vegetation monitoring applications, Acta Astronautica, vol 52, num. 9-12, May-June 2003, 923 - 929. ISSN 0094-5765.

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Surface parameters – methodological aspects

Kergoat L., Berthelot B., Bicheron P. and Dedieu G., 1999, VEGETATION, AVHRR and POLDER seasonal and directionnal signatures over French deciduous forest, Proceedings of the International conference on the contribution of POLDER and the new generation spaceborne sensors to global change studies, 18-22 January, Meribel, France, WK3-P-20

Pietro Ceccato, Stéphane Flasse, Stefano Tarantola, Stéphane Jacquemoud and Jean-Marie Grégoire 2001 Detecting vegetation leaf water content using reflectance in the optical domain Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 77, Issue 1 , July 2001, Pages 22-33

Ceccato P., S. Flasse, S. Tarantola, S. Jacquemoud, and J-M. Grégoire, 2001, Detecting Vegetation Leaf Water Content Using Reflectance in the Optical Domain, Remote Sensing of Environment, 77(1):22-23, 2001.

Pineda(1), N., Jorba(2), O., Jorge(1), J., Baldasano(2), J.M 2002 Using NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VGT data to estimate surface parameters: application to a mesoscale meteorological model1st International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing Valencia (Spain), 16-20 September 2002

Christiane Schmullius, Sören Hese & SIBERIA-II Team, 2002, SIBERIA-II: Sensor Systems and Data Products for Greenhouse Gas Accounting S. Dech et al. (Hrsg.): Tagungsband 19. DFD-Nutzerseminar, 15. - 16. Oktober 2002, S. 173 – 180

X. Xiao , L. He , W. Salas , C. Li , B. Moore III , R. Zhao , S. Frolking , S. Boles, 2002 Quantitative relationships between field-measured leaf area index and vegetation index derived from VEGETATION images for paddy rice fields International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 18 3595 - 3604

Alexander P. Trishchenko, Josef Cihlar and Zhanqing Li 2002 Effects of spectral response function on surface reflectance and NDVI measured with moderate resolution satellite sensors Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 81, Issue 1 , July 2002, Pages 1-18

Pietro Ceccato, Nadine Gobron, Stéphane Flasse, Bernard Pinty and Stefano Tarantola 2002 Designing a spectral index to estimate vegetation water content from remote sensing data: Part 1 Theoretical approach Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 82, Issues 2-3 , October 2002, Pages 188-197

Ceccato P., S. Flasse, and J-M. Grégoire, 2002, Designing a Spectral Index to Estimate Vegetation Water Content from Remote Sensing Data (Part 2: Validation and applications), Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 82 / 2-3, 2002, pp. 198-207

Alexander P. Trishchenko Josef Cihlar, Zhanqing Li,Byongjun Hwang 2002 Long-term monitoring of surface reflectance, NDVI, and clouds from space: What contribution can we expect due to the effect of instrument spectral response variations? Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 4815 Atmospheric Radiation Measurements and Applications in Climate, Joseph A. Shaw, Editor, September 2002, pp. 108-119

Florence Laporterie, Guy Flouzat, and Olivier Amram 2002 Spatial and temporal satellite data fusion with morphological pyramids for terrestrial surfaces survey Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4541, 199-210 (2002)

Lin Zhu, Ryutaro Tateishi 2002 Linear mixture modeling for quantifying vegetation cover using time series NDVI data Proceedings Asian Conference on remote Sensing, Khatmandu – Nepal 25-29 Nov. 2002, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/2002/luc/luc006.shtml

Champeaux, J.-L., K.S. Han, L. Franchistéguy, J, L. Roujean and R. Lacaze 2003 Land Surface Parameters Derived from Spot/Vegetation Data for Use in Meteorological Models 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 579 – 581

Schmullius, C.C., S. Plummer and S. Quegan 2003he SIBERIA-II Project, Greenhouse Gas Accounting and the Global Project Context 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 485 – 487

Quaife, T., M. Lomas, P. Lewis and M. Disney 2003Inter-Comparison of Phenological Measures Derived from Coarse Resolution Earth Observation and Implications for Assimilation into Dynamic Vegetation Models 2003 ìIEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol III: 1673 – 1675

Liu, C., B. Wu and F. Zhang VI 2003Assimilation of VGT and AVHRR NDVI Data to Build Long Series Dataset 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol 3577 – 3579

Quaife, T., M. Lomas, P. Lewis and M. Disney 2003Inter-Comparison of Phenological Measures Derived from Coarse Resolution Earth Observation and Implications for Assimilation into Dynamic Vegetation Models 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol III: 1673 – 1675

F. Veroustraete (1) and H. Eerens (1) 2003 ESTIMATION OF CARBON MASS FLUXES OVER EUROPE FOR 1997 -1999, USING A PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY MODEL (PEM), REMOTE SENSING AND EUROFLUX DATA

Stephen Frolking, Berrien Moore III 2003, Sensitivity of vegetation indices to atmospheric aerosols: continental-scale observations in Northern Asia Remote Sensing of Environment 84 (2003) 385–392

Xiangming XiaoBobby Braswell, Qingyuan Zhang, Stephen Boles, Stephen Frolking and Berrien Moore, III 2003 Sensitivity of vegetation indices to atmospheric aerosols: continental-scale observations in Northern Asia Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 84, Issue 3 , March 2003, Pages 385-392

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Land cover mapping

V.TRICHON, D. DUCROT, J. P. GASTELLU-ETCHEGORRY 1999 SPOT4 potential for the monitoring of tropical vegetation. A case study in Sumatra International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 20, Number 14 2761 - 2785

P. Mayaux, V. Gond, E. Bartholome 2000 A near-real time forest-cover map of Madagascar derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 21, Number 16 3139 - 3144

Mayaux P., V. Gond and E. Bartholomé Etienne, 2001, Mapping the forest cover of Madagascar with Spot 4/VEGETATION data, in proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate Lake Maggiore 3-6 April 2000, JRC and CNES, 183-188

Bartalev S., F. Achard, D. Erchov and V. Gond, 2001, The potential contribution of SPOT 4/VEGETATION data for mapping Siberian forest cover at continental scale, VEGETATION 2000 conference Proceedings, Saint G. Ed, JRC, Ispra, pp 127-142

Else SWINNEN, Frank CANTERS, Herman EERENS, Gil LISSENS 2001 Sub-pixel land-cover classification with SPOT-VEGETATION imagery. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2001, July 9-13, Sydney, Australia.

H-J. Stibig, J. P. Malingreau, R. Beuchle 2001 New possibilities of regional assessment of tropical forest cover in insular Southeast Asia using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite image mosaics International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 22, Number 4 503 - 505

Gond V. and E. Bartholomé, 2001, Classifying land cover types with VEGETATION data in dryland: A case study in Burkina, in proceedings Conference VEGETATION 2000, Belgirate 3-6 April 2000, 443-444

M. LEDWITH, 2002, Land cover classification using SPOT Vegetation 10-day composite images – Baltic Sea catchment basin http://www.lantmateriet.se

Bielski, C. M. 2002 Stochastic Simulation to Improve Land-Cover Estimates Derived from Coarse Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery. Montréal, Université de Montréal, Département de géographie, 2002. Thèse de doctorat en géographie

Xiangming Xiao a,*, Stephen Boles a, Jiyuan Liu b, Dafang Zhuang b, Mingliang Liu, 2002, Characterization of forest types in Northeastern China, using multi-temporal SPOT-4 VEGETATION sensor data Remote Sensing of Environment 82 (2002) 335–348

X. Xiao , S. Boles , S. Frolking , W. Salas , B. Moore III , C. Li , L. He , R. Zhao 2002 Landscape-scale characterization of cropland in China using Vegetation and Landsat TM images International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 18 3579 - 3594

X. Xiao , B. Moore III , X. Qin , Z. Shen , Stephen Boles 2002 Large-scale observations of alpine snow and ice cover in Asia: Using multi-temporal VEGETATION sensor data International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 11 2213 - 2228

Xiangming Xiao, Stephen Boles, Jiyuan Liu, Dafang Zhuang and Mingliang Liu 2002 Characterization of forest types in Northeastern China, using multi-temporal SPOT-4 VEGETATION sensor data Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 82, Issues 2-3 , October 2002, Pages 335-348

Bartholomé E., A.S. Belward, F. Achard, S. Bartalev, C. Carmona-Moreno, H. Eva, S. Fritz, J-M. Grégoire, P. Mayaux and H-J. Stibig, 2002, GLC 2000 - Global Land Cover mapping for the year 2000 - Project status November 2002, Publication of the European Commission, JRC, Ispra, Italy, EUR 20524 EN, pp. 55.

Eva H.D., E.E. de Miranda, C.M. Di Bella, V.Gond, O.Huber, M.Sgrenzaroli, S.Jones, A.Coutinho, A.Dorado, M.Guimarães, C.Elvidge, F.Achard, A.S.Belward, E.Bartholomé, A.Baraldi, G.De Grandi, P.Vogt, S.Fritz and A.Hartley, 2002, A Vegetation Map of South America, Publications of the European Commission, EUR 20159 EN, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2002-X-33 pp.

Stibig, H-J., Beuchle, R, and Janvier, P. 2002, Forest cover map of insular Southeast Asia at 1:5 500 000, Publications of the European Commission, EUR 20129 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg.

Mayaux P., E. Bartholomé, M. Massart and A.S. Belward, 2002, The Land Cover of Africa for the year 2000, Land use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Newsletter, No. 8, December 2002, 4-6.

Bartholomé, E., A.S. Belward, F. Achard, S. Bartalev, C. Carmona-Moreno, H. Eva, S. Fritz, J.-M. Grégoire, P. Mayaux and H.-J. Stibig, K. Tansey 2003Use of Data from the VEGETATION Instrument for Global Environmental Monitoring: Some Lessons from the GLC 2000 and the GBA 2000 Projects 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 576 – 578

Rasim Latifovic Chandra Giri, 2003 Land Cover Map of North America

J. Cihlar, R. Latifovic, J. Beaubien, B. Guindon, and M. Palmer, 2003, Thematic mapper (TM) based accuracy assessment of a land cover product for Canada derived from SPOT VEGETATION (VGT) data Can. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 154-170,

Richard Fernandes, Chris Butson, Sylvain Leblanc, and Rasim Latifovic, 2003 Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 ETM+ based accuracy assessment of leaf area index products for Canada derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 29 Pages : 241 – 258

J. Cihlar, B. Guindon, J. Beaubien, R. Latifovic, D. Peddle, M. Wulder, R. Fernandes, and J. Kerr 2003 From need to product: a methodology for completing a land cover map of Canada with Landsat data Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 29 Pages : 171 – 186

Jeremy T. Kerr* and Josef Cihlar 2003 Land use and cover with intensity of agriculture for Canada from satellite and census data Global Ecology & Biogeography Volume 12 Issue 2 Page 161 - March 2003

Frank CANTERS, Else SWINNEN, Herman EERENS, Tim VAN DE VOORDE 2003 Estimation of land-cover proportions at the subpixel level from 1-km SPOT-VGT data. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, July 10-12, Melbourne, 66-74.

Elena Lioubimtseva 2003 An evaluation of VEGETATION-1 imagery for broad-scale landscape mapping of Russia: effects of resolution on landscape pattern Landscape and Urban Planning 1021 (2003) 1–14

S. Ringrose A1, C. Vanderpost A2, W. Matheson 2003 Mapping ecological conditions in the Okavango delta, Botswana using fine and coarse resolution systems including simulated SPOT vegetation imagery International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 5 1029 – 1052

H-J. Stibig 2003 Mapping of the tropical forest cover of insular Southeast Asia from SPOT4-Vegetation International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 18

Bartalev S., A.S. Belward, D. Erchov & A.S. Isaev, 2003, A new SPOT4-VEGETATION derived land cover map of Northern Eurasia, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 24: 1977–1982.

Eva H.D., A.S. Belward, E.E. De Miranda, C.M. Di Bella, V. Gond, O. Huber, S. jones, M. Sgrenzaroli and S. Fritz, 2003, A land cover map of South America, Global Change Biology, accepted.

Stibig H-J., Beuchle R. and F. Achard, 2003, Mapping of the tropical forest cover of insular Southeast Asia from SPOT4-Vegetation images, Int. J. Remote Sensing, vol. 24, no. 18, 3651-3662.

Stibig, H-J. and F. Achard, 2003, Assessment of tropical forest cover from satellite images at different geographical scales: Examples from Southeast Asia, Geoinformatics for Tropical Ecosystems, Asian Association of Remote Sensing, in press.

Bartholomé E. (editor), 2003, Global Land Cover 2000 final results workshop, Publications of the European Commission, SP-I.03.53, European Communities, pp. 43.

Eva H., and Ph. Mayaux, 2003, An inter-comparison of vegetation classes in the new land cover maps of Africa and South America, International Conference Tropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Ecology, Environment and Development, Edinburgh, September 2003, accepted.

Ling Lu, Xin Li, Qinghan Dong, Else Swinnen, and Frank Veroustraete 2003 Land cover mapping and its validation for the northwest of China using SPOT Vegetation data Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4890, 863-870 (2003)

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Vegetation, crop & land surface monitoring

Cayol, P., Chehbouni, A., Kergoat, L., Dedieu, G., Mordelet, P., and Y. Nouvellon. (2000). Grassland modeling and monitoring with SPOT-4 VEGETATION instrument during the 1997-1998 SALSA experiment. SALSA special issue. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 105(1-2): 91-116

Ozer P., Tychon B., Touré S. 2000: SPOT – 4 VEGETATION potentialities for food early warning systems and famine reduction in the Sahel. 1st Earsel workshop on remote sensing for developing countries“” Ghent (B) pp 167-172

F. Lupo, I. Reginster, E. F. Lambin 2001 Monitoring land-cover changes in West Africa with SPOT Vegetation: impact of natural disasters in 1998-1999 International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 22, Number 13 2633 - 2639

Mougenot B, Bégué A, Lechaudel M, Royer A, Duchemin B, Maisongrande P. 2001 Biomass assessment with VEGETATION data in the Sahel : Improvements with ecological data and modeling. 8th Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Aussois, France, 8-12 January 2001.

Cherlet M. , P. Mathoux, E. Bartholomé and P. Defourny, 2001, VEGETATION contribution to the desert locust habitat monitoring, in proceedings Conference VEGETATION 2000, Belgirate 3-6 April 2000, 247-258.

Agustin Lobo, Jordi Carreras, and Josep-Maria Ninot 2001 Multitemporal profiles of vegetation indices of Mediterranean habitats: an analysis of data provided by the VEGETATION instrument Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4171, 336-339 (2001

X. Xiao , S. Boles , S. Frolking , W. Salas , B. Moore III , C. Li , L. He , R. Zhao, 2002, Observation of flooding and rice transplanting of paddy rice fields at the site to landscape scales in China using VEGETATION sensor data International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 15 3009 - 3022

Wataru Ohira *, Yukio Wada 2002 ANIMATION OF SPOT VEGETATION INSTRUMENT DATA USING MORPHING. International Workshop on Visualization and Animation Of Landscape Kunming, China 26 - 28 February 2002, ISSN: 1682-1777 Volume: XXX IV Part No.: 5/W3

J. M. B. Carreiras , Y. E. Shimabukuro , J. M. C. Pereira, 2002, Fraction images derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data to assess land-cover change over the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil Volume 23, Number 234979 - 4983

LUPO F., REGINSTER I. and LAMBIN E.F. 2002Monitoring natural disasters and " hot spots " of land-cover changes with SPOT VEGETATION data to assess regions at risks, Proceedings of the 21st EARSeL Symposium " Observing Our Environment From Space : New Solutions For A New Millennium ", Paris, 14-16 May 2001 ; Ed. G. Bégni, AA. Balkema Publishers, Lisse, pp. 333,-336/429

Fraser, R.H., and R. Latifovic 2003Coarse Resolution Satellite Mapping of Insect-Induced Tree Defoliation and Mortality 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol II: 978 – 978

Rodriguez, J.C., B. Duchemin, C.J. Watts, R. Hadria, J. Garatuza, A. Chehbouni,G. Boulet, M. Armenta and S. Er-Raki 2003Wheat Yields Estimation Using Remote Sensing and Crop Modeling in Yaqui Valley in Mexico 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol IV: 2221 – 2223

Zhang, F., B. Wu and C. Liu 2003Using Time Series of SPOT VGT NDVI for Crop Yield Forecasting 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 386 – 388

Houet, T., L. Hubert-Moy, G. Mercier and P. Gouery 2003Estimation and Monitoring of Bare Soil/Vegetation Ratio with SPOT Vegetation and HRVIR 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol V: 3248 – 3250

Zhang, F., B. Wu and C. Liu 2003 An Advanced Tool for Real-time Crop Monitoring in China 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium July 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol IV: 2242 – 2244

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Fires and burned surfaces

J. A. EASTWOOD S. E. PLUMMER B. K. WYATT B. J. STOCKS 1998 The potential of SPOT-Vegetation data for fire scar detection in boreal forests International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 19, Number 18 3681 - 3687

R.H. Fraser, Z. Li, and R. Landry 2000, SPOT VEGETATION for Characterising Boreal Forest Fires Research letter International Journal of Remote Sensing Accepted March 16, 2000

Fraser, R., Li, Z., and J. Cihlar, 2000, Hotspot and NDVI differencing synergy: A new method for mapping fire scars, Rem. Sens. Environ., 74, 362-375, 2000

R.H. Fraser, Z. Li, R. Landry 2000 SPOT VEGETATION for characterizing boreal forest fires International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 21, Number 18 3525 - 3532

Silva J. M. N., J. M. C. Pereira, A. I. Cabral, A. C. L. Sá, M. J. P. Vasconcelos, B. Mota and J.-M. Grégoire, An estimate of the area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D13), 8498, doi:10.1029/2002JD002320, 2003.

Stroppiana D., M. Maggi, J-M. Pereira, Graetz D., J-M. Grégoire, J. Silva, A. Sà, P. Henry, V. Gond and E. Bartholomé, 2000, Detection and mapping of burnt areas and active fires in tropical woodland ecosystems with the VEGETATION sensor: the SMOKO-FRACTAL case study over Northern Australia, in proceedings of the VEGETATION 2000 conference, Belgirate Lake Maggiore 3-6 April 2000, JRC and CNES, 335-345

Ahern F., J-M. Grégoire, and C. Justice (editors), 2000, Forest fire monitoring and mapping: a component of Global Observation of Forest Cover. Publications of the European Commission, EUR 19588, Luxembourg, p. 253, June 2000.

Grégoire J-M., I. Balzer, E. Bartholomé, L. Boschetti, S. Campbell, V. Gond, G-F. De Grandi, D. Graetz, P. Henry, E. King, M. Maggi, J. M. Pereira, A. Sà, J. M. Silva, S. Silva, D. Stroppiana, and M. Vincenzi, 2000, The SMOKO experiment: development and test of a multi-systems approach to burnt area mapping from optical, thermal and microwave satellite data. A joint Australia-European Union scientific collaboration. Progress Report no. I, June 2000. Publication of the European Commission, EUR 19596 EN, 74 pp., 2000.

Grégoire J-M., D. R. Cahoon, D. Stroppiana, Z. Li, S. Pinnock, H. Eva, O. Arino, J.M. Rosaz, and I. Csiszar, 2001, Forest fire monitoring and mapping for GOFC: current products and information networks based on NOAA-AVHRR, ERS-ATSR, and SPOT-VGT, in Global and Regional Vegetation Fire Monitoring from Space, Planning and Coordinated International Effort (Eds. F. Ahern, J.G. Goldammer, C. Justice), p105-124.

PIETRO CECCATO 2001, ESTIMATION OF VEGETATION WATER CONTENT USING REMOTE SENSING FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF FIRE RISK OCCURRENCE AND BURNING EFFICIENCY University of Greenwich 2001.

Gond V., M. Maggi, P. Henry, J.-M. Grégoire and E. Bartholomé, 2001, Detecting active fires with the VEGETATION instrument, in proceedings Conference VEGETATION 2000, Belgirate 3-6 April 2000, proceedings 461-462

Grégoire, J-M., Cahoon, D. R., Stroppiana, D., Li, Z., Pinnock, S., Eva, H., Arino, O., Rosaz, J.M., and Csiszar, I.., 2001, Forest fire monitoring and mapping for GOFC: current products and information networks based on NOAA-AVHRR, ERS-ATSR, and SPOT-VGT systems, in Global and Regional Vegetation Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort, Ahern, F. J., J. Goldammer and C. Justice (eds) , SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands, 2001, pp. 105-124

Fraser, R., and Z. Li, 2001, SPOT VEGETATION for Estimating parameters related to boreal forest fire: burned area, regeration age, and biomass; Rem. Sens. Environ., in press.

Fraser, R., and Z. Li, 2002, Estimating fire related parameters in boreal forest using SPOT VEGETATION, Rem. Sens. Environ., in press

Marta Maggi and Daniela Stroppiana, 2002 Advantages and drawbacks of NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VGT for burnt area mapping in a tropical savanna ecosystem, Can. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 231-245,

Mollicone D., F. Achard, L. Belelli Marchesini, S. Federici, C. Wirth, M. Leipold, S. Rosellini, E.D. Schulze and R. Valentini, 2002, A remote sensing based approach to determine forest fire cycle: case study of the Yenisei Ridge dark taiga, Tellus Series B, 54(5): 688-695

T. Phulpin , F. Lavenu , M. F. Bellan , B. Mougenot , F. Blasco 2002 Using SPOT-4 HRVIR and VEGETATION sensors to assess impact of tropical forest fires in Roraima, Brazil International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 10 1943 - 1966

Daniela Stroppiana, Simon Pinnock, José M. C. Pereira and Jean-Marie Grégoire 2002 Radiometric analysis of SPOT-VEGETATION images for burnt area detection in Northern Australia Remote Sensing of Environment Volume 82, Issue 1 , September 2002, Pages 21-37

Boschetti L., S. Flasse, A. Jacques de Dixmude and S. Trigg, 2002, A multitemporal change-detection algorithm for the monitoring of burnt areas with SPOT-Vegetation data, in Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, ( L. Bruzzone and P. Smith, Editors), World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp.75-82.

Brivio P.A., Maggi M., Binaghi E., Gallo I., and Grégoire J-M., 2002, Exploiting spatial and temporal information for extracting burned areas from time series of SPOT-VGT data, in Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, ( L. Bruzzone and P. Smith, Editors), World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp.132-139.

Fritz S. and H. Eva, 2002, Evaluating the use of remotely sensed fires to predict areas of rapid forest change in the tropics, in Forest Fire Research & Wildland Fire Safety, D.X. Viegas (ed.), Millpress, Rotterdam, ISBN 90-77017-72-0

Silva J.M.N. , A. Sousa, J.M.C. Pereira, K. Tansey and J-M. Grégoire, 2002, A contribution for a global burned area map, in Forest Fire Research & Wildland Fire Safety, D.X. Viegas (ed.), Millpress, Rotterdam, ISBN 90-77017-72-0

Stroppiana D., and J-M. Grégoire, 2002, Using temporal change of the land cover spectral signal to improve burnt area mapping, in Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, ( L. Bruzzone and P. Smith, Editors), World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp.209-216.

Stroppiana D., S. Pinnock, J.M. Pereira, and J-M. Grégoire, 2002, Radiometric analysis of SPOT-VEGETATION images for burnt area detection in Northern Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 82, Issue 1, September 2002, 21-37.

Tansey K., 2002, Implementation of regional burnt area algorithms for the GBA2000 initiative, Publications of the European Commission, EUR 20532, December 2002, pp. 159.

Grégoire J-M., K. Tansey, I. Marengo, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, S. Flasse, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.N. Pereira, J. Silva, A. Sousa, and D. Stroppiana, 2002, Towards global estimates of burnt area from satellite imagery for use by the atmospheric science community, poster presented at the GOFC/GOLD Fire & IGBP-IGAC/BIBEX workshop on Improving global estimates of atmospheric emissions from biomass burning, University of Maryland, July 17-19, 2002.

Raffo S., L. Boschetti, A. Baraldi, E. Binaghi, and J-M. Grégoire, 2002, Implementazione e test di un algoritmo, unsupervised change detection, per l’individuazione di aree bruciate, in proceedings 6a Conferenza Nazionale ASITA Geomatica per l'ambiente, il territorio e il Patrimonio Culturale , CNR-IREA, Milano, Italy, Volume II, 1785-1790.

Tansey K., J-M. Grégoire, I. Marengo, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, R. Fraser, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.C. Pereira, J.M.N. Silva and D. Stroppiana , 2002, A global map of burnt vegetation at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VGT data, International Workshop on: Quantifying Terrestrial Carbon Sinks : Science, Technology and Policy, Wengen, Switzerland, September 25 - 27, 2002.

Grégoire J-M., K. Tansey, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.N. Pereira, J. Silva, A. Sousa, and D. Stroppiana, 2002, Global scale inventory of the area burnt in the year 2000.The GBA2000 dataset, Land use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Newsletter, No. 8, December 2002, 13-14.

Grégoire J-M., K. Tansey, I. Marengo, D. Stroppiana, and S. Fritz, 2002, The Global Burnt Area 2000 initiative: GBA-2000. Mapping the areas burnt globally during the year 2000. Project status on October 2001. JRC Technical Note No. I.01.117, Publication of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, January 2002, p. 40.

Marengo I., J-M. Grégoire, K. Tansey, and P. Peduzzi, 2002, Global Burnt Area 2000: Analysis module, JRC Technical Note No. I.02.39, Publication of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, April 2002, p. 12.

Maggi M., and D. Stroppiana, Advantages and drawbacks of NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VEGETATION for burnt area mapping in a tropical savannah ecosystem, 2002, Can. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 1-15

Raffo S., 2002, Definizione e realizzazione di un sistema integrato per l'individuazione delle aree bruciate a scala regionale, attraverso l'analisi delle immagini telerilevate da satellite, Tesi di Laurea, Universita Degli Studi Dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy, Tesi di Laurea Informatica, Universita Degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Publications of the European Commission, SP. I.02.152, European Commission, Luxembourg, pp. 120, November 2002.

Boschetti, L 2003A Multitemporal Algorithm for Burned Area Detection in Mexican Woodland andShrubland Environment with SPOT-VEGETATION Data EEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol II: 1293 – 1295

George, C.T., F. Gerard, H. Balzter, I. McCallum, A. Shvidenko, S. Nilsson and C. Schmullius 2003Disturbances in the Siberian Boreal Forest - Mapping Fire-scars Using a Multi-temporal, Multi-sensor Approach 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 491 – 493

D. Stroppiana A1, J-M. Grégoire A2, J. M. C. Pereira A3 2003 The use of SPOT VEGETATION data in a classification tree approach for burnt area mapping in Australian savanna International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 10 2131 - 2151

J.-M. Grégoire A1, K. Tansey A1, J. M. N. Silva 2003 The GBA2000 initiative: developing a global burnt area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 6 1369 - 1376

D. Stroppiana A1, J-M. Grégoire A2, J. M. C. Pereira, 2003, The use of SPOT VEGETATION data in a classification tree approach for burnt area mapping in Australian savanna International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 24, Number 10 2131 - 2151

Liousse C., M. O. Andreae, P. Artaxo, P. Barbosa, H. Cachier, J. M. Grégoire, P. Hobbs, D. Lavoué, F. Mouillot, J. Penner, M. Scholes, 2003, Deriving Global Quantitative Estimates for Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Biomass Burning Emissions, in IGAC book on Emissions, edited by Granier C., Artaxo P and C. Reeves, Kluwer, 2003, submitted.

Michel C., C. Liousse, J.-M. Grégoire, K. Tansey, G.R. Carmichael and J.-H. Woo, 2003Biomass burning emission inventory from burnt area data given by SPOT-Vegetation satellite in the frame of TRACE-P and ACE-Asia campaigns, in preparation for J. Geophys. Res.

Stroppiana D., K. Tansey, J-M. Grégoire, and J.M.C. Pereira, 2003, An algorithm for mapping burnt areas in Australia using SPOT-VEGETATION data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, VOL. 41, NO. 4, April 2003, 907-909.

Tansey K., J-M. Grégoire, E. Binaghi, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, S. Flasse, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.C. Pereira, J.M.N. Silva, A. Sousa and D. Stroppiana , 2003, A global inventory of burned areas at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VEGETATION data, Climatic Change, submitted.

Tansey K., J-M. Grégoire, D. Stroppiana, A. Sousa, J.M.N. Silva, J.M.C. Pereira, L. Boschetti, M. Maggi, P.A. Brivio, R. Fraser, S. Flasse, D. Ershov, E. Binaghi, D. Graetz and P. Peduzzi, 2003,Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Special Issue on Global Trace Gas Emissions from Biomass Burning, 1st revision.

Grégoire J-M., A. Fournier, H. Eva et L. Sawadogo, 2003, Caractérisation de la dynamique des feux et de l'évolution du couvert dans le Parc du W: Burkina Faso, Bénin et Niger, Publications of the European Commission, EUR 20687 FR, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2003.

Palumbo I., 2003, Analisi della distribuzione spazio-temporale degli incendi nei parchi naturali in Africa nell' anno 2000, Tesi di Laurea, Universita' Degli Studi di Milano-Bicoca, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Publications of the European Commission, SP. I.03.100, 100 p + annexes.

Boschetti L., 2003, A multitemporal algorithm for burned area detection in Mexican woodland and shrubland environment with SPOT-VEGETATION data, International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2003 - Learning from Earth's Shapes and Colors, vol. II, pp: 1293 - 1295.

Grégoire J-M., K. Tansey, I. Palumbo & H. Eva, 2003, A multi-scale analysis of fire patterns in West Africa's savannas and woodlands, International Conference Tropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests: Ecology, Environment and Development, Edinburgh, September 2003, accepted.

Palumbo I., Grégoire J-M., L. Boschetti and H. Eva, 2003, Fire regimes in protected areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, derived from the GBA2000 dataset, invited lecture at Innovative concepts and methods in fire danger estimation , Joint EARSel – GOFC/GOLD-Fire workshop, Ghent University, 5-7 June 2003

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Continental water

Gond V., E. Bartholomé, F. Ouattara and A. Nonguierma, 2001, Mapping and monitoring small ponds in dryland with the VEGETATION instrument – application to West Africa, in proceedings Conference VEGETATION 2000, Belgirate 3-6 April 2000, 327-334.

Gond V. and E. Bartholomé, 2001, Monitoring floods in Mozambique in February 2000: a feasibility study, postr presentation at Conference VEGETATION 2000, Belgirate 3-6 April 2000

Rutger Dankers 2002, SUB-ARCTIC HYDROLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A case study of the Tana River Basin in Northern Fennoscandia Utrecht, 2002: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap / Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht (Nederlandse Geografische Studies 304) 237 pp. http://www.library.uu.nl/digiarchief/dip/diss/2003-0115-103049/inhoud.htm

Gond V., E. Bartholomé, F. Ouattara, A. Nonguierma, L. Bado, 2003, Surveillance et cartographie des plans d’eau et des zones humides et inondables en régions arides avec l’instrument VEGETATION embarqué sur SPOT 4, International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.

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Snow & ice

Xiangming Xiao, Zhenxi Shen, Xiaoguan Qin, 2001, Assessing the potential of VEGETATION sensor data for mapping snow and ice cover: a Normalized Difference Snow and Ice Index International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 22, Number 13 / September 2001 pp2479 - 2487

X. Xiao , B. Moore III , X. Qin , Z. Shen , Stephen Boles 2002 Large-scale observations of alpine snow and ice cover in Asia: Using multi-temporal VEGETATION sensor data International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 23, Number 11 2213 - 2228

Hanich, L., B. de Solan, B. Duchemin, P. Maisongrande, A. Chaponnière, G. Boulet and G. Chehbouni 2003Snow Cover Mapping Using SPOT VEGETATION with High Resolution Data: Application in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol IV: 2829 – 2831

Simic, A., R. Fernandes, R. Brown, P. Romanov, W. Park and D.K. Hall 2003Validation of MODIS, VEGETATION and GOES+SSM/I Snow Cover Products Over Canada Based on Surface Snow Depth Observations 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol II: 836 – 838

Chaponnière, A., P. Maisongrande, R. Escadafal, B. de Solan and G. Chehbouni 2003 Satellite Driven Modeling of Snow Runoff in a Small Semi-Arid Mountainous Watershed in Morocco 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol II: 1181 - 1183

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Ocean

Fougnie, B., P. Henry, and P. Gaspar, 2001 An operational Ocean Color Approach with Végétation/SPOT-4, Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Sea Ice , pp.83-92, 8th Symposium on Remote Sensing, Toulouse, France, 17-21 September, 2001.

Bertrand Fougnie, Patrice J. Henry, and Philippe Gaspar 2002 Operational ocean color approach with Vegetation/SPOT-4 Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4544, 83-92 (2002)

Fougnie, B., P. Henry, J. Stum, P. Mambert, G. Weller and P. Gaspar 2003An Operational Ocean Color Approach with Végétation/SPOT-4 Atmospheric Correction and Temporal Merging 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing SymposiumJuly 21-25, 2003 Toulouse, France, vol I: 582 – 584

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Atmosphere

Regis Borde and Jean Verdebout 2002 Remote sensing of aerosols over land from VEGETATION and SeaWiFS Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 4539, 69-78 (2002)

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