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Overview

Miguel O. Román is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the subfields of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Them main topics of work include:

  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Miguel O. Román has published multiple papers in well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PNAS Nexus

Recent papers include:

  • Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products, 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Artificial light at night: an underappreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants, 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • NASA's Black Marble Multiangle Nighttime Lights Temporal Composites, 2022, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Continuous monitoring of nighttime light changes based on daily NASA's Black Marble product suite, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Quantifying uncertainties in nighttime light retrievals from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Day/Night Band data, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Zhuosen Wang
  • Sadashiva Devadiga
  • Sudipta Sarkar
  • Virginia Kalb
  • Steven D. Miller

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

    Noam Levin;Noam Levin;Christopher C.M. Kyba;Christopher C.M. Kyba;Qingling Zhang;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel

  • NASA's Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product Suite

    Miguel O. Román;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Qingsong Sun;Qingsong Sun;Virginia Kalb

  • Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network

    Alessandro Cescatti;Barbara Marcolla;Suresh K. Santhana Vannan;Jerry Yun Pan

  • The MODIS (Collection V005) BRDF/albedo product: Assessment of spatial representativeness over forested landscapes

    Miguel O. Román;Miguel O. Román;Crystal B. Schaaf;Curtis E. Woodcock;Alan H. Strahler

  • Evaluation of MODIS Albedo Product (MCD43A) over Grassland, Agriculture and Forest Surface Types During Dormant and Snow-Covered Periods

    Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Alan H. Strahler;Mark J. Chopping

  • Capturing rapid land surface dynamics with Collection V006 MODIS BRDF/NBAR/Albedo (MCD43) products

    Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Qingsong Sun;Yanmin Shuai

  • Validation of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) albedo retrieval algorithm : Dependence of albedo on solar zenith angle

    Jicheng Liu;Crystal Schaaf;Alan Strahler;Ziti Jiao

  • Land and cryosphere products from Suomi NPP VIIRS: Overview and status

    Christopher O. Justice;Miguel O. Román;Ivan Csiszar;Eric F. Vermote

  • Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

    Miguel O. Román;Eleanor C. Stokes;Eleanor C. Stokes;Ranjay Shrestha;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang

  • Assessing the coupling between surface albedo derived from MODIS and the fraction of diffuse skylight over spatially-characterized landscapes

    Miguel O. Román;Miguel O. Román;Crystal B. Schaaf;Philip Lewis;Feng Gao

  • The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

    L. Duncanson;J. Armston;M. Disney;V. Avitabile

  • Evaluation of Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow albedo product (MCD43A) over tundra

    Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Crystal B. Schaaf;Mark J. Chopping;Alan H. Strahler

  • Validation of Land Surface Temperature products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) using ground-based and heritage satellite measurements

    Pierre C. Guillevic;James C. Biard;James C. Biard;Glynn C. Hulley;Jeffrey L. Privette

  • Overview of NASA's MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) snow-cover Earth System Data Records

    George A. Riggs;Dorothy K. Hall;Dorothy K. Hall;Miguel O. Román

  • Holidays in lights: Tracking cultural patterns in demand for energy services

    Miguel O. Román;Eleanor C. Stokes

  • Variability in Surface BRDF at Different Spatial Scales (30m-500m) Over a Mixed Agricultural Landscape as Retrieved from Airborne and Satellite Spectral Measurements

    Miguel O. Román;Charles K. Gatebe;Charles K. Gatebe;Crystal B. Schaaf;Rajesh Poudyal

  • Evaluation of the VIIRS BRDF, Albedo and NBAR products suite and an assessment of continuity with the long term MODIS record

    Yan Liu;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Qingsong Sun;Angela M. Erb

  • How universal is the relationship between remotely sensed vegetation indices and crop leaf area index? A global assessment

    Yanghui Kang;Mutlu Özdogan;Samuel C. Zipper;Miguel O. Roman

  • Radiative impact of boreal smoke in the Arctic: Observed and modeled

    R. S. Stone;R. S. Stone;G. P. Anderson;G. P. Anderson;E. P. Shettle;E. Andrews;E. Andrews

  • A method for improving hotspot directional signatures in BRDF models used for MODIS

    Ziti Jiao;Crystal B Schaaf;Yadong Dong;Miguel O Roman

  • Use of In-Situ and Airborne Multiangle Data to Assess Modis, Viirs, and Landsat-Based Estimates of Directional Reflectance and Albedo

    M. O. Roman;C. K. Gatebe;Yanmin Shuai;Zhuosen Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhuosen Wang
Zhuosen Wang University of Maryland, College Park
Crystal B. Schaaf
Crystal B. Schaaf University of Massachusetts Boston
Tomohiro Oda
Tomohiro Oda Universities Space Research Association
Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Thomas Lauvaux
Thomas Lauvaux Pennsylvania State University
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Steven Pawson
Steven Pawson Goddard Space Flight Center
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Curtis E. Woodcock
Curtis E. Woodcock Boston University
Ivan Csiszar
Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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