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VIIRS Nightfire Publications

➤ Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu, Tamara Sparks, and Tilottama Ghosh.
"Subpixel Analysis of Primary and Secondary Infrared Emitters with Nighttime VIIRS Data." Fire 4, no. 4 (2021): 83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4040083

Zhizhin, Mikhail, Alexey Matveev, Tilottama Ghosh, Feng-Chi Hsu, Martyn Howells, and Christopher Elvidge.
"Measuring gas flaring in russia with multispectral VIIRS nightfire." Remote Sensing 13, no. 16 (2021): 3078.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163078

➤ Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Kimberly Baugh, and Feng-Chi Hsu.
"Identification of Smoldering Peatland Fires in Indonesia via Triple-Phase Temperature Analysis of VIIRS Nighttime Data." In Biomass Burning in South and Southeast Asia, pp. 25-38. CRC Press, 2021.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429022258-2

➤ Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Kimberly Baugh, Feng Chi Hsu, and Tilottama Ghosh.
"Extending nighttime combustion source detection limits with short wavelength VIIRS data." Remote Sensing 11, no. 4 (2019): 395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11040395

➤ Zhizhin, M., C. Elvidge, and Z. Kodesh.
"Ground-truth validation of VIIRS nightfire for gas flaring estimates." In Proceedings of the Global Monitoring Annual Conference. 2019.
Link: https://gml.noaa.gov/publications/annual_meetings/2019/slides/6-Zhizhin.pdf

➤ Zhizhin, Mikhail N., Christopher Elvidge, and Mark Davis.
"Reading gas flare histories with VIIRS nightfire temporal profiles: preliminary results." In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 2019, pp. B13F-2432. 2019.
Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/554512

Elvidge, Christopher D., Morgan D. Bazilian, Mikhail Zhizhin, Tilottama Ghosh, Kimberly Baugh, and Feng-Chi Hsu.
"The potential role of natural gas flaring in meeting greenhouse gas mitigation targets." Energy strategy reviews 20 (2018): 156-162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2017.12.012

➤ Zhizhin, Mikhail N., and Christopher Elvidge.
"Ground-truth calibration of VIIRS Nightfire detector for gas flares." In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 2018, pp. B21J-2453. 2018.
Link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.B21J2453Z/abstract

➤ Trifonov, Grigory, Mikhail Zhizhin, Dmitry Melnikov, and Alexey Poyda.
"One year of kamchatka volcanoes live observation with viirs nightfire." In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, p. 11553. 2017.
Link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-11553-1.pdf

➤ Trifonov, Grigory M., Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Dmitry V. Melnikov, and Alexey A. Poyda.
"VIIRS Nightfire remote sensing volcanoes." Procedia computer science 119 (2017): 307-314.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050917323992

➤ Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Kimberly Baugh, Feng-Chi Hsu, and Tilottama Ghosh. "Methods for global survey of natural gas flaring from visible infrared imaging radiometer suite data." Energies 9, no. 1 (2015): 14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en9010014

Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng-Chi Hsu, and Kimberly E. Baugh.
"VIIRS nightfire: Satellite pyrometry at night." Remote Sensing 5, no. 9 (2013): 4423-4449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5094423