Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, David Roy, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, Louis Giglio, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Haiyan Huang, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, Maria Zubkova, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Michael Laurence Humber, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States