MISR Interactive Explorer

An example of MINX output for a smoke plume in Alaska during July 2004.

I am the current science administrator of the MISR Interactive Explorer (MINX) software program, developed here at JPL by David Nelson. MINX uses stereo imaging techniques to determine the height of aerosol and cloud features above the Earth surface. MINX is available for free download here:

https://www.openchannelsoftware.com/projects/MINX

For the past several years, myself and five summer interns (shoutout to my great interns Matt, Robert, Olivia, and Angela) have been busy digitizing all available biomass burning smoke plumes for 2009, 2010, and 2011. We intend to publish our results after validation with CALIPSO, in ESSD sometime in late 2020.