Agriculture provides humanity with food, fibers, fuel, and raw materials that are paramount
for human livelihood. Today, this role must be satisfied within a context of environmental …

Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a rapidly advancing front
in terrestrial vegetation science, with emerging capability in space-based methodologies …

Vegetation indices (VIs) have been used extensively for qualitative and quantitative remote
sensing monitoring of vegetation vigor and growth dynamics. However, the saturation …

An unprecedented spectroscopic data stream will soon become available with forthcoming
Earth-observing satellite missions equipped with imaging spectroradiometers. This data …

Leaf pigments provide valuable information about plant physiology. High resolution
monitoring of their dynamics will give access to better understanding of processes occurring …

Microclimates at the land–air interface affect the physiological functioning of organisms
which, in turn, influences the structure, composition, and functioning of ecosystems. We …

Abstract Models of radiative transfer (RT) are important tools for remote sensing of
vegetation, allowing for forward simulations of remotely sensed data as well as inverse …

Digital elevation models (DEMs) are widely used in geoscience. The quality of a DEM is a
primary requirement for many applications and is affected during the different processing …

Assessing functional diversity from space can help predict productivity and stability of forest
ecosystems at global scale using biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. We …