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 …

Plant trait data have been used in various studies related to ecosystem functioning,
community ecology, and assessment of ecosystem services. Evidences are that plant …

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 …

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 …

Identifying the relative importance of climatic and other environmental controls on the
interannual variability and trends in global land surface phenology and greenness is …

Accurately estimating vegetation productivity is important in research on terrestrial
ecosystems, carbon cycles and climate change. Eight-day gross primary production (GPP) …

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote
sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring …

From in situ measured woody cover we develop a phenology driven model to estimate the
canopy cover of woody species in the Sahelian drylands at 1 km scale. The model estimates …

Satellite remotely sensed fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) products are
widely used in land-surface monitoring and modeling, especially for estimating global …

The fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR) is an essential
biophysical variable and plays a critical role in the carbon cycle. Existing FAPAR products …