Ivan Csiszar's early research focused on atmospheric sounding and on
the retrieval of cloud optical and microphysical properties. He has also
worked on various issues related to the retrieval of land surface
properties. His current primary research interest is satellite-based fire
detection and monitoring. He has led several NASA-funded research projects
aimed at fire mapping and evaluating fire products and impacts, including
products from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible
Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
Dr. Csiszar has been an active contributor to the Fire Mapping and
Monitoring thematic area of the Global Observation of Forest and Land
Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program and Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
He has led the evaluation and specification process of the Fire
Disturbance Essential Climate Variable for the Global Climate Observing
System (GCOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS). He has
also been serving as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of
Wildland Fire.
Ivan Csiszar has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, five
book chapters and has given numerous invited and contributing
presentations at scientific conferences. He has taught full courses on
dynamic meteorology and climatology, and has been a lecturer on weather,
climate and satellite-based environmental monitoring for courses at
domestic and international institutions. He has organized and chaired
international scientific workshops and conference sessions related to fire
monitoring. He has also served on scientific advisory and review panels
for NOAA and NASA. He is the recipient of the Zeldovich Award from the
Scientific Commission A of the Committee on Space Research, the World
Meteorological Organization Research Award for Young Scientists, and
awards from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian
Meteorological Society.
Csiszar, I. and W. Schroeder, 2008: Short-Term Observations of the
Temporal Development of Active Fires from Consecutive Same-Day ETM+ and
ASTER Imagery in the Amazon: Implications for Active Fire Product
Validation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing, Vol. 1, No. 4, 248-253. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2008.2011377.
Schroeder, W., M. Ruminski, I. Csiszar, L. Giglio, E. Prins, C. Schmidt
and J. Morisette, 2008: Validation analyses of an operational fire
monitoring product: The Hazard Mapping System, Int. J. Remote Sens.,
Vol. 29, No. 20, 6059–6066, DOI: 10.1080/01431160802235845.
Giglio, L., I. Csiszar, A. Restas, J.T. Morisette, W. Schroeder, D.
Morton, C.O. Justice, 2008: Active Fire Detection and Characterization
with the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
(ASTER). Remote Sens. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.03.003.
Schroeder, W., E. Prins, L. Giglio, I. Csiszar, C. Schmidt, J. Morisette
and D. Morton, 2008: Validation of GOES and MODIS active fire detection
products using ASTER and ETM+. Remote Sens. Environ., doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.005
Chuvieco, E., Opazo, S., Sione, W., del Valle, H., Anaya, J., Di Bella,
C., Cruz, I., Manzo, L., López, G., Mari, N., González-Alonso, F.,
Morelli, F., Setzer, A., Csiszar, I., Kanpandegi, J. A., Bastarrika, A.
and Libonati, R., 2008: Global Burned Land Estimation in Latin America
using MODIS Composite Data, Ecol. Appl., 18(1), 64-79.
Schroeder, W., I. Csiszar and J. Morisette, 2007: Quantifying the Impact
of Cloud Obscuration on Remote Sensing of Active Fires in the Brazilian
Amazon. Remote Sens. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.05.004.
Leptoukh, G., I. Csiszar, P. Romanov, S. Shen, T. Loboda, I. Gerasimov,
2007: NASA NEESPI Data and Services Center for Satellite Remote Sensing
Information. Environ. Res. Lett., 2, 045009, doi:10.1088/1748-
9326/2/4/045009.
Loboda, T., K.J. O'Neal and I. Csiszar, 2007: Regionally adaptable dNBR-
based algorithm for burned area mapping from MODIS data. Remote Sens.
Environ., 109, 429-442.
Pu, R., Z. Li, P. Gong, I. Csiszar, R. Fraser, W.M. Hao, S. Kondragunta
and F. Weng, 2007: Development and analysis of a 12-year daily 1-km forest
fire dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR data. Remote Sens.
Environ., 108, 198-208.
Loboda, T. and I. Csiszar, 2007: Assessing the Risk of Ignition in a
Dynamic Modeling Framework of Fire Threat: an example from the Russian Far
East. Ecol. Appl., 17(3), 791-805.
Loboda, T. and I. Csiszar, 2007: Reconstruction of Fire Spread within
Wildland Fire Events in Northern Eurasia from the MODIS Active Fire
Product. Glob. Planet. Change, 56, 258-273.
Csiszar, I., J. Morisette and L. Giglio, 2006: Validation of active fire
detection from moderate resolution satellite sensors: the MODIS example in
Northern Eurasia. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 44, no. 7, 1757-1764.
Giglio, L., I. Csiszar and C.O. Justice, 2006: Global Distribution and
Seasonality of Active Fires as Observed with the Terra and Aqua MODIS
Sensors. J. Geophys. Res. – Biogeosci., 111, G02016,
doi:10.1029/2005JG000142.
Loupian E.A., A.A Mazurov, E.V. Flitman, D.V. Ershov, G.N. Korovin, V.P.
Novik, N.A. Abushenko, D.A. Altyntsev, V.V. Koshelev, S.A. Tashchilin,
A.V. Tatarnikov, I. Csiszar, A.I. Sukhinin, E.I. Ponomarev, S.V. Afonin,
V.V. Belov, G.G. Matvienko and T. Loboda, 2006: Satellite monitoring of
forest fires in Russia at federal and regional levels. Mitig. Adap. Strat.
Glob. Change, 11, 113-145.
Morisette, J.T., L. Giglio, I. Csiszar, C. O. Justice, 2005: Validation of
the MODIS Active fire product over Southern Africa with ASTER data. Int.
J. Remote Sens., 26, 4239-4264.
Schroeder, W., J. Morisette, I. Csiszar, L. Giglio, D. Morton, C.O.
Justice, 2005: Characterizing Vegetation Fire Dynamics in Brazil Through
Multi-Satellite Data: Common Trends and Practical Issues. Earth Interact.,
9, paper no. 13.
Morisette, J.T., L. Giglio, I. Csiszar, A. Setzer, W. Schroeder, D Morton,
C. O. Justice, 2005: Validation of MODIS active fire detection products
derived from two algorithms. Earth Interact, 9, paper no. 9.
Csiszar, I., L. Denis, L. Giglio, C.O. Justice and J. Hewson, 2005: Global
Fire Activity from two years of MODIS data. Int. J. Wildland Fire, 14, 117-130.
Csiszar, I., C.O. Justice, A.D. McGuire, M.A. Cochrane, D.P. Roy, F.
Brown, S.G. Conard, P.G.H. Frost, L. Giglio, C. Elvidge, M.D. Flannigan,
E. Kasischke, D.J. McCrae, T.S. Rupp, B.J. Stocks, D.L. Verbyla, 2004:
Land use and fires. In Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and
Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, pp. 329-350.
Ivan Csiszar
received his Ph.D. in 1996 in Earth Sciences from the Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, Hungary. From 1988 until 1997 he worked at the
Hungarian Meteorological Service, during which time he also visited the
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie in Hamburg, Germany, and the
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique in Palaiseau, France. He was a
visiting scientist at NOAA/NESDIS between 1997 and 2001 and an Associate
Research Scientist at the Department of Geography of the University of
Maryland between 2002 and 2008. He joined NOAA/NESDIS/STAR in 2008.