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Martin J. Wooster is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The main topics of Wooster's work involve:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Their research has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Sensors

Wooster's recent papers include:

  • "Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Global impact of landscape fire emissions on surface level PM2.5 concentrations, air quality exposure and population mortality," 2021, Atmospheric Environment
  • "Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Advances in the estimation of high Spatio-temporal resolution pan-African top-down biomass burning emissions made using geostationary fire radiative power (FRP) and MAIAC aerosol optical depth (AOD) data," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors in Wooster's publications include:

  • Mark Grosvenor
  • Tianran Zhang
  • Weidong Xu
  • Mark de Jong
  • Mary Langsdale

Best Publications

  • Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

    Nerilie J. Abram;Benjamin J. Henley;Benjamin J. Henley;Alex Sen Gupta;Tanya J. R. Lippmann

  • Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: FRP derivation and calibration relationships between biomass consumption and fire radiative energy release

    Martin Wooster;G Roberts;G L W Perry;G L W Perry;Y J Kaufman

  • Fire radiative energy for quantitative study of biomass burning: derivation from the BIRD experimental satellite and comparison to MODIS fire products.

    Martin Wooster;B Zhukov;D Oertel

  • Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997

    V. Huijnen;M. J. Wooster;M. J. Wooster;J. W. Kaiser;D. L. A. Gaveau

  • High Throughput Field Phenotyping of Wheat Plant Height and Growth Rate in Field Plot Trials Using UAV Based Remote Sensing

    Fenner Howard Holman;Andrew Riche;Adam Michalski;March Castle

  • Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires.

    David L. A. Gaveau;Mohammad A. Salim;Kristell Hergoualc'h;Bruno Locatelli

  • A review of Ts/VI remote sensing based methods for the retrieval of land surface energy fluxes and soil surface moisture.

    George Petropoulos;T.N. Carlson;M Wooster;S Islam

  • Annual and diurnal african biomass burning temporal dynamics

    G. Roberts;Martin Wooster;E. Lagoudakis

  • Relationships between energy release, fuel mass loss, and trace gas and aerosol emissions during laboratory biomass fires

    Patrick H. Freeborn;Patrick H. Freeborn;Martin J. Wooster;Wei Min Hao;Cecily A. Ryan

  • Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: Application to southern Africa using geostationary SEVIRI imagery

    G Roberts;Martin Wooster;G L W Perry;G L W Perry;N Drake

  • Testing the potential of multi-spectral remote sensing for retrospectively estimating fire severity in African savannahs

    Alistair M.S. Smith;Martin J. Wooster;Nick A. Drake;Frederick M. Dipotso

  • Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements

    Martin J. Wooster;Gareth J. Roberts;Louis Giglio;David Roy

  • Fire Detection and Fire Characterization Over Africa Using Meteosat SEVIRI

    G.J. Roberts;M.J. Wooster

  • Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

    Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Alex Bush;Rahel Sollmann;Andreas Wilting;Kristine Bohmann;Kristine Bohmann

  • Effusion rate trends at Etna and Krafla and their implications for eruptive mechanisms

    A J L Harris;A J L Harris;J B Murray;S E Aries;Meirion Davies

  • Derivation of an urban materials spectral library through emittance and reflectance spectroscopy

    Simone Kotthaus;Simone Kotthaus;Thomas E.L. Smith;Martin J. Wooster;C.S.B. Grimmond;C.S.B. Grimmond

  • Production of Landsat ETM+ reference imagery of burned areas within Southern African savannahs: comparison of methods and application to MODIS

    A. M. S. Smith;N. A. Drake;M. J. Wooster;A. T. Hudak

  • Global characterization of biomass-burning patterns using satellite measurements of fire radiative energy

    Charles Ichoku;Charles Ichoku;Louis Giglio;Martin J. Wooster;Lorraine A. Remer

  • Boreal forest fires burn less intensely in Russia than in North America

    Martin Wooster;Y H Zhang

  • Fire, drought and El Niño relationships on Borneo (Southeast Asia) in the pre-MODIS era (1980–2000)

    M. J. Wooster;G. L. W. Perry;A. Zoumas

  • Small-scale experimental testing of fire radiative energy for quantifying mass combusted in natural vegetation fires.

    Martin J. Wooster

  • Thermal remote sensing of active vegetation fires and biomass burning events [Chapter 18]

    Martin J. Wooster;Gareth Roberts;Alistair M.S. Smith;Joshua Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
George L. W. Perry
George L. W. Perry University of Auckland
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
George P. Petropoulos
George P. Petropoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
David A. Rothery
David A. Rothery The Open University
Toby N. Carlson
Toby N. Carlson Pennsylvania State University
Saulo R. Freitas
Saulo R. Freitas National Institute for Space Research
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Guido R. van der Werf
Guido R. van der Werf Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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