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 …

The global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There is an exponential
growth of food production to meet the needs of the growing population. However, the limited …

Forthcoming superspectral satellite missions dedicated to land monitoring, as well as
planned imaging spectrometers, will unleash an unprecedented data stream. The …

Long-term global data sets of vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of
Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR) are critical to monitoring …

Satellite sensing in the visible to near-infrared (VNIR) domain has been the backbone of
land surface monitoring and characterization for more than four decades. However, a …

The recently launched and upcoming hyperspectral satellite missions, featuring contiguous
visible-to-shortwave infrared spectral information, are opening unprecedented opportunities …

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important indicator of crop growth. In this paper, a hybrid
inversion method was developed to estimate the LAI values of crops. Based on PROSAIL …

The red-edge bands place the recently available multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery at an
advantage over other multispectral sensors, and hypothetically offer improved crop …

Essential climate variables such as LAI or FAPAR are required for the monitoring,
understanding and modeling of land surfaces at the global scale. While several products …

Given the forthcoming availability of Sentinel-2 (S2) images, this paper provides a
systematic comparison of retrieval accuracy and processing speed of a multitude of …