Vincent G Ambrosia, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Jesus San Miguel-Ayanz, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Louis Giglio, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Robert D Field, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States