Nitrogen (N) is considered as one of the most important plant macronutrients and proper
management of N therefore is a pre-requisite for modern agriculture. Continuous satellite …

The combined PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and SAIL canopy bidirectional
reflectance model, also referred to as PROSAIL, has been used for about sixteen years to …

Abstract Models of radiative transfer (RT) are important tools for remote sensing of
vegetation, allowing for forward simulations of remotely sensed data as well as inverse …

Foliar functional traits are widely used to characterize leaf and canopy properties that drive
ecosystem processes and to infer physiological processes in Earth system models. Imaging …

Hyperspectral acquisitions have proven to be the most informative Earth observation data
source for the estimation of nitrogen (N) content, which is the main limiting nutrient for plant …

Hyperspectral data (Table 1) is acquired as continuous narrowbands (eg, each band with 1
to 10 nanometer or nm bandwidths) over a range of electromagnetic spectrum (eg, 400 …

A strong positive correlation between vegetation canopy bidirectional reflectance factor
(BRF) in the near infrared (NIR) spectral region and foliar mass-based nitrogen …

Analyses of various biophysical and biochemical factors affecting plant canopy reflectance
have been carried out over the past few decades, yet the relative importance of these factors …

The PROSPECT leaf optical model has, to date, combined the effects of photosynthetic
pigments, but a finer discrimination among the key pigments is important for physiological …

We develop a new method for estimating the biochemistry of plant material using
spectroscopy. Normalized band depths calculated from the continuum-removed reflectance …