Profile for Jeffrey Masek

Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: NASA
Contact: E-mail
Office Phone: 301-614-6629
Fax: 301-614-6695

Profile

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Land-cover Change, Computational Strategies for Remote Sensing Analysis, Urban Growth Studies


PREVIOUS POSITIONS


EDUCATION


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES


FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Conference Proceedings

2003

Irons JR, Speciale NJ, McCuistion JD, Masek JG, Markham BL, Storey JC, Lencioni DE, Ryan RE, "Data specifications for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission", IGARSS 2003: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, VOLS I-VII, Learning from Earth's Shapes and Sizes,1335-1337, 2003.


2002

Lindsay, F. E. and Masek, J. (2002). "A Tale of Two Cities:Characterizing Urban Growth Using Variable Resolution Remote Sensing Data", Proceedings for the Third International Symposium Remote Sensing of Urban Areas. Istanbul, Turkey. Vol. 2, pp. 591-599.

NASA Technical Documents

2002

McClain, C. F., F. G. Hall, G. J. Collatz, S. R. Kawa, W. W. Gregg, J. C. Gervin, J. B. Abshire, A. E. Andrews, C. D. Barnet, M. J. Behrenfeld, P. S. Caruso, A. M. Chekalyuk, L. D. Demaio, A. S. Denning, J. E. Hansen, F. E. Hoge, R. G. Knox, J. G. Masek, K. D. Mitchell, J. R. Moisan, T. A. Moisan, S. Pawson, M. M. Rienecker, S. R. Signorini, C. J. Tucker, "Science and Observation Recommendations for Future NASA Carbon Cycle Research", National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA/TM -2002 -210009, 2002.

Publications

Román, M.O., Gatebe, C.K., Shuai, Y., Wang, Z., Gao, F., J. Masek, He, T., Liang, S., and Schaaf, C.B. (2013). Use of in situ and airborne multiangle data to assess MODIS- and Landsat-based estimates of directional reflectance and surface albedo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
10.1109/TGRS.2013.2243457

Christopher A. Williams, G.J. Collatz, J. Masek, and Goeard. Samuel (2012). Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES,, 26(GB1005)
10.1029/2010GB003947

McManus, K. M., Morton D, Masek J, Wang D, Sexton J, Nagol J, Ropars P , and Boudreau S. (2012). Satellite-based evidence for shrub and grassland expansion in northern Quebec since 1986 Global Change Biology, 18(7), 2312-2323
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02708.x

Townshend, J., J. G. Masek, C. Q. Huang, E. F. Vermote, F. Gao, S. Channan, J. O. Sexton, M. Feng, R. Narasimhan, D. Kim, K. Song, D. X. Song, X. P. Song, P. Noojipady, B. Tan, M. C. Hansen, M. X. Li, and R. E. Wolfe (2012). Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges International Journal of Digital Earth, 5(5), 373-397
10.1080/17538947.2012.713190

Wang, Dongdong, D.C. Morton, J. Masek, Aisheng Wu, Jyoteshwar Nagol, J. Xiong, Robert Levy, Eric Vermote, and R.E. Wolfe (2012). Impact of sensor degradation on the MODIS NDVI time series Remote Sensing of Environment, 119, 55–61
10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.001

Ainong Li, Huang, C., G. Sun, Shi H., Toney, C., Zhu, Z., Rollins, M., Goward, S., and J. Masek (2011). Modeling the height of young forests regenerating from recent disturbances in Mississippi using Landsat and ICESat data Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches, 115, 1837–1849

Masek, J., W. Cohen, D.Leckie, M. Wulder, R. Vargas, B. Jong, S. Healey, B. Law, R. Birdsey, R. A. Houghton, D. Mildrexler, S. Goward, and W. Smith (2011). Recent rates of forest harvest and conversion in North America JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 116(G00K03), 22
10.1029/2010JG001471

Williams, D., M.E. Brown, J. Masek, C.J. Tucker, and Celeste Jarvis (2011). A Low-cost, Small-sat Mission Concept to Augment Landsat Temporal Repeat Frequency International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment

Yanmin Shuai, J. Masek, F. Gao, and Schaff, C. (2011). An algorithm for the retrieval of 30-m snow-free albedo from Landsat surface reflectance and MODIS BRDF Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 2204–2216

Tan, B., Robert Wolfe, J. Masek, F. Gao, and E.F. Vermote (2010). An Illumination Correction Algorithm on Landsat-TM Data International Geoscience and Remote Sensing S, 1964 - 1967

Bounoua, L., A. Safia, J. Masek, C. Peters-Lidard, and M. Imhoff (2009). Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria J. Applied Meteorology Climatology, 48(2), 217-231
10.1175/2008JAMC2044.1

Franks, S., J. Masek, R.M.K. Headley, J. Gasch, and T. Arvidson (2009). Lagre Area Scene Selection Interface (LASSI): Methodology of Selecting Landsat Imagery for the Global Land Survey 2005 Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 75(11), 1287-1296

Gao, F., J. Masek, and R.E. Wolfe (2009). An automated registration and orthorectification package for Landsat and Landsat-like data processing J. Applied Remote Sens., 3(033515)
10.1117/1.3104620

Gao, F., J. Masek, Y. Pan, L. Wu, and L. Bounoua (2009). Mapping continuous urbanization from Multi-temporal Moderate Resolution Sensors - Case Study on Yangtze Delta, China Proc. MultiTemp, 291-298

Hilker, T., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops, N. Seitz, J.C. White, F. Gao, J. Masek, and G. Stenhouse (2009). Generation of Dense Time Series Synthetic Landsat Data Throught Data Blending with MODIS Using a Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model Remote Sens. Environ., 113(9), 1988-1999
10.1016/j.rse.2009.05.011

Hilker, T., M.A. Wulder, N.C. Coops, J. Linke, G. McDermid, J. Masek, F. Gao, and J.C. White (2009). A new data fusion model for high spatial- and temporal- resolution mapping of forest disturbance based on Landsat and MODIS Remote Sens. Environ., 113(8), 1613-1627
10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.007

Huang, C., S.N. Goward, J. Masek, F. Gao, E.F. Vermote, N. Thomas, K. Schleeweis, R.E. Kennedy, Z. Zhu, J.C. Eidenshink, and J.R.G. Townshend (2009). Development of Time Series Stacks of Landsat Images for Reconstructing Forest Disturbance History Int. J. Digital Earth, 2(3), 195-218
10.1080/17538940902801614

Gao, F., and J. Masek (2008). Normalizing Aster Data Using MODIS Products for Land Cover Classification ISPRS, XXXVII(B7), 1209-1213

Gitelson, A.A., A. Viña, J. Masek, S. B Verma, and A.E. Suyker (2008). Synoptic Monitoring of Gross Primary Productivity of Maize Using Landsat Data IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 5(2), 133-137
10.1109/LGRS.2008.915598

Goward, S.N., R.A. Houghton, S. Healey, G.J. Collatz, G. Molsen, W. Cohen, J. Masek, D. Turner, S. Powell, B. Law, R. Kennedy, C. Huang, and M.A. Wulder (2008). Forest Disturbance and North American Carbon Flux Eos, Trans. AGU, 89(11), 105-116

Gutman, G., R. Byrnes, and J. Masek (2008). Towards monitoring land-cover and land-use changes at a global scale: The Global Land Survey 2005 Photogrammetric Engineering Remote Sens., 94(1), 6-10

Gutman, G., R. Byrnes, and J. Masek (2008). Towards monitoring land-cover and land-use changes at a global scale: The Global Land Survey 2005 Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 94(1), 6-10

Huang, C.Q., K. Song, S. Kim, J.R. G. Townshend, P. Davis, J. Masek, and S.N. Goward (2008). Use of a dark object concept and support vectormachines to automate forest cover change analysis Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(3), 970-985
10.1016/j.rse.2007.07.023

Masek, J., C. Huang, R.E. Wolfe, W. Cohen, F.G. Hall, J. Kutler, and P. Nelson (2008). North American forest disturbance mapped from a decadal Landsat record Remote Sens. Environ., 112, 2914-2926
10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.010

Wulder, M.A., J.C. White, S.N. Goward, J. Masek, J.R. Irons, M. Herold, W.B. Cohen, T.R. Loveland, and C.E. Woodcock (2008). Landsat continuity: Issues and opportunities for land cover monitoring Remote Sens. Environ., 112, 955-969
10.1016/j.rse.2007.07.004

Birdsey, R.A., R. Cook, S. Denning, P. Griffith, B. Law, J. Masek, A. Michalak, S. Ogle, D. Ojima, Y. Pan, C. Sabine, E. Sheffner, and E. Sundquist (2007). Investigators Share Improved Understanding of the North American Carbon Cycle Eos, Trans. AGU, 88(24), 255

Masek, J., R.E. Wolfe, F.G. Hall, W. Cohen, R. Kennedy, S. Powell, S. Goward, C. Huang, S. Healey, and G. Moisen (2007). Assessing North American forest disturbance from the landsat archive Proc. IGARSS, 5294-5297

Bounoua, L., J. Masek, and Y.M. Tourre (2006). Sensitivity of surface climate to land surface parameters: A case study suing the simple biosphere model SiB2 J. Geophys. Res. , 111, 10 pp

Gao, F., J. Masek, M. Schwaller, and F.G. Hall (2006). On the Blending of the Landsat and MODIS Surface Reflectance: Predicting Daily Landsat Surface Reflectance IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 44(8), 2207-2218

Gao, F., and J. Masek (2006). Mapping Wildland Fire Scar Using Fused Landsat and MODIS Surface Reflectance Proc. IGARSS

Hall, F.G., J. Masek, and G.J. Collatz (2006). Evaluation of ISLSCP Initiative IIFASIR and GIMMS NDVI products and implications for carbon cycle science Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 111(D2), Art. No. D22S08

Irons, J.R., and J. Masek (2006). Requirements for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., 72(10), 1102-1108

Masek, J., K.F. Huemmrich, F.G. Hall, R.E. Wolfe, N. Saleous, E.F. Vermont, F. Gao, J. Kutler, and T.-K. Lim (2006). A Landsat Surface Reflectance Dataset for North America, 1990-2000 IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 3(1), 68-72

Masek, J., and G.J. Collatz (2006). Estimating forest carbon fluxes in a disturbed southeastern landscape: Integration of remote sensing, forest inventory, and biogeochemical modeling J. Geophys. Res., 111(G01006), 15 pp

Masek, J., and G.J. Collatz (2006). Estimating forest carbon fluxes in a disturbed southeastern landscape: Integration of remote sensing, forest inventory, and biogeochemical modeling J. Geophys. Res., 111(G01006), 15 pp

Gao, F., J. Masek, and M. Schwaller (2005). Towards gap and cloud free continuous Landsat surface reflectance by fusing Landsat ETM+ and MODIS surface reflectance ISPMSRS 2005 Proceedings