An overview of global leaf area index (LAI): Methods, products, validation, and applications

H Fang, F Baret, S Plummer… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Exploiting the centimeter resolution of UAV multispectral imagery to improve remote-sensing estimates of canopy structure and biochemistry in sugar beet crops

S Jay, F Baret, D Dutartre, G Malatesta, S Héno… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has opened a new horizon in
vegetation remote sensing, especially for agricultural applications. However, the benefits of …

GEOV1: LAI, FAPAR essential climate variables and FCOVER global time series capitalizing over existing products. Part 2: Validation and intercomparison with …

F Camacho, J Cernicharo, R Lacaze, F Baret… - Remote Sensing of …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper describes the scientific validation of the first version of global biophysical
products (ie, leaf area index, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and …

The soil moisture active passive validation experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12): Prelaunch calibration and validation of the SMAP soil moisture algorithms

H McNairn, TJ Jackson, G Wiseman… - … on Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) satellite is scheduled for launch in January 2015. In order to develop robust soil …

[HTML][HTML] Retrieval of the canopy chlorophyll content from Sentinel-2 spectral bands to estimate nitrogen uptake in intensive winter wheat crop** systems

C Delloye, M Weiss, P Defourny - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
One of the most common approaches to reducing the environmental impact of nitrogen (N)
fertilisation in intensive agrosystems is to adjust the N input of the crop requirement. This …

Quality assessment of PROBA-V LAI, fAPAR and fCOVER collection 300 m products of copernicus global land service

B Fuster, J Sánchez-Zapero, F Camacho… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) provides global time series of leaf area index
(LAI), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) and fraction of …

Effects of foliage clum** on the estimation of global terrestrial gross primary productivity

JM Chen, G Mo, J Pisek, J Liu, F Deng… - Global …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Sunlit and shaded leaf separation proposed by Norman (1982) is an effective way to
upscale from leaf to canopy in modeling vegetation photosynthesis. The Boreal Ecosystem …