Douglas C Morton¹, James Tremper Randerson², Niels Andela³, Yang Chen², Louis Giglio⁴, Wilfrid Schroeder⁵, Michael Goulden⁶, Lesley E Ott¹, Andrew T Hudak⁷ and Joel McCorkel⁸, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Univesity of California, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States