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Journal Papers

• "Active Fires from the Suomi NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite: Product Status and First Evaluation Results," I. Csiszar, W. Schroeder, L. Giglio, E. Ellicott, K. P. Vadrevu, C. O. Justice and B. Wind. 2014. (PDF)
• "An Active Fire-based Burned Area Mapping Algorithm for the MODIS Sensor," L. Giglio, T. Loboda, D. Roy, B. Quayle and C. Justice.  October 2008.  (PDF)
• "Implementation of the MODIS Direct Broadcast Burned Area Mapping Algorithm," L. Giglio, S. Dasgupta and K. Brentzel.  October 2008.  (PDF)
• "International Polar Orbiting Processing Package (IPOPP) Framework for Earth Remote Sensing Science Data Processing," P. Coronado, J. Overton and K. Brentzel.  2009.  (PDF)
• "NASA Direct Broadcast for Real-time Remote Sensing Applications," P.Coronado and K. Brentzel.  Submitted to CGMS-42, Working Group II.  May 2014. (PDF)
• "NASA Direct Readout for Its Polar Orbiting Satellites," P. Coronado and K. Brentzel.  2006.  (PDF)
• "The New VIIRS 375 m Active Fire Detection Data Product: Algorithm Description and Initial Assessment," W. Schroeder, P. Oliva, L. Giglio and I. Csiszar.  December 2013. (PDF)
• "Operational Integration of Direct Readout Technology:  Example-based Frameworks for Decision Support," B. Quayle, B. Schwind and P. Frost.  2009.  (PDF)
• "The Role of Direct Readout (DR) in Near-Real Time Remote Sensing Applications:  Helping to Solve Societal Issues," P. Coronado and K. Brentzel.  2009.  (PDF)

White Papers

• "Creating Reprojected True Color VIIRS Images: A Tutorial," Direct Readout Laboratory, NASA/GSFC.  Draft v1.0.  June 2016. (PDF)
• "The Direct Broadcast Service on Office of Earth Science Satellites," C.D. Wende and J.C. Dodge, NASA-HQ.  Draft.  1998.  (PDF)
• "The Earth Observing System Direct Broadcast System," J.C. Dodge, Earth Observation Magazine (EOM).  Submitted March 1999.
• "What is Spectrum (Frequency) Management, and Why Should We Care?  A Tutorial from a NASA Office of Earth Science Perspective," C. Wende, NASA-HQ.  Draft.  August 1998. (1 MByte PDF). [If this composite PDF document does not display or print properly, then download each of the 10 parts: part 0, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9.]