Data assimilation plays a dual role in advancing the “scientific” understanding and serving
as an “engineering tool” for the Earth system sciences. Land data assimilation (LDA) has …

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 …

Timely monitoring of crop lands is important in order to make agricultural activities more
sustainable, as well as ensuring food security. The use of Earth Observation (EO) data …

Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution
measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short …

To estimate regional-scale winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) yield, we developed a data-
assimilation scheme that assimilates remotely sensed reflectance into a coupled crop …

Gaussian processes (GPs) have experienced tremendous success in biogeophysical
parameter retrieval in the last few years. GPs constitute a solid Bayesian framework to …

The spatial and temporal characteristics of the new Sentinel missions, primarily designed to
provide routine multidisciplinary observations for operational services, are also very suitable …

The Earth's climate is largely determined by its energy budget. Since the 1960s, satellite
remote sensing has been used in estimating these energy budget components at both the …

In the context of the continuous degradation of the global environment, ecological
restoration has become a primary task in global environmental governance. In this process …

Abstract The Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor (SL2P) is made available to users for
the retrieval of vegetation biophysical variables including leaf area index (LAI) from …