NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

K Cawse-Nicholson, PA Townsend, D Schimel… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales

I Dronova, S Taddeo - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing of vegetation phenology has long been used to characterize ecosystem
functions and responses to climate at spatial and temporal scales unfeasible to field surveys …

Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity

R Wang, JA Gamon - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is essential to healthy ecosystem function, influencing productivity and
resilience to disturbance. Biodiversity loss endangers essential ecosystem services and …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing in grassland ecosystem monitoring: A systematic review

X Lyu, X Li, D Dang, H Dou, K Wang, A Lou - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing in
grassland ecosystem monitoring has increased, and the application directions have …

Quantifying plant-soil-nutrient dynamics in rangelands: Fusion of UAV hyperspectral-LiDAR, UAV multispectral-photogrammetry, and ground-based LiDAR-digital …

JB Sankey, TT Sankey, J Li, S Ravi, G Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rangelands cover 70% of the world's land surface, and provide critical ecosystem services
of primary production, soil carbon storage, and nutrient cycling. These ecosystem services …

Plant beta-diversity across biomes captured by imaging spectroscopy

AK Schweiger, E Laliberté - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Monitoring the rapid and extensive changes in plant species distributions occurring
worldwide requires large-scale, continuous and repeated biodiversity assessments. Imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis: Twenty years in the tumultuous sea of biodiversity estimation by remote sensing

M Torresani, C Rossi, M Perrone, LT Hauser… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Twenty years ago, the Spectral Variation Hypothesis (SVH) was formulated as a means to
link between different aspects of biodiversity and spatial patterns of spectral data (eg …

Predicting plant biomass and species richness in temperate grasslands across regions, time, and land management with remote sensing and deep learning

J Muro, A Linstädter, P Magdon, S Wöllauer… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatial predictions of biomass production and biodiversity at regional scale in grasslands
are critical to evaluate the effects of management practices across environmental gradients …

Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants

JE Meireles, J Cavender‐Bares, PA Townsend… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we
do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf …

Spatial resolution, spectral metrics and biomass are key aspects in estimating plant species richness from spectral diversity in species‐rich grasslands

C Rossi, M Kneubühler, M Schütz… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence suggests that remotely sensed spectral diversity is linked to plant
species richness. However, a conflicting spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship in …