Plant diseases and pests endanger agriculture and forestry significantly around the world.
The implementation of non-contact, highly-efficient, and affordable methods for detecting …

Accurately assessing terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP) is crucial for characterizing
the climate-carbon cycle. Remotely sensing the photochemical reflectance index (PRI) …

Monitoring and understanding the physical, chemical and biological status of global inland
waters are immensely important to scientists and policy makers alike. Whereas conventional …

Early detection of water stress is critical for precision farming for improving crop productivity
and fruit quality. To investigate varying rootstock and irrigation interactions in an open …

Alkali landscapes hold an extremely fine-scale mosaic of several vegetation types, thus it
seems challenging to separate these classes by remote sensing. Our aim was to test the …

Fast and nondestructive approaches of measuring plant species diversity have been a
subject of excessive scientific curiosity and disquiet to environmentalists and field ecologists …

Earth is experiencing unprecedented climate change driven by anthropogenic activities. The
Paris Climate Agreement is the most recent international agreement pushing nations to …

Macrophytes are important components of freshwater ecosystems, playing a relevant role in
carbon and nutrient cycles. Notwithstanding their widespread diffusion in temperate to …

The estimation of leaf biochemical constituents is of high interest for the physiological and
ecological applications of remote sensing. The multispectral lidar (MSL) system emerges as …

The tuber development and nutrient transportation of potato crops are closely related to
canopy photosynthesis dynamics. Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of photosystem II …