What validation of the MODIS active fire products has been performed?
Validation of the Terra MODIS fire product has primarily been performed using coincident observations from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); see http://modis-fire.umd.edu/validation.asp, and publications by Morisette et al. (2005a, 2005b) and Csiszar et al. (2006) for details. A very brief discussion of the general validation procedure, with some preliminary results, can be found in Justice et al. (2002).
