
NASA SARI Core Team Member
Dr.Ivan Csiszar serves as a Branch Chief, Environmental Monitoring, Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA STAR. His earlier research focused on atmospheric sounding and on the retrieval of cloud optical and microphysical properties. He has also worked on various issues related to the retrieval of land surface properties. His current primary research interest is satellite-based fire detection and monitoring. He has led several NASA-funded research projects aimed at fire mapping and evaluating fire products and impacts, including products from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). He has also served on several scientific advisory and review panels for NOAA and NASA. Dr. Csiszar has been an active contributor to the Fire Mapping and Monitoring thematic area of the Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program and Group on Earth Observations (GEO).