Leveraging the next generation of spaceborne Earth observations for fuel monitoring and wildland fire management

RV Leite, C Amaral, CSR Neigh… - Remote Sensing in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Managing fuels is a key strategy for mitigating the negative impacts of wildfires on people
and the environment. The use of satellite‐based Earth observation data has become an …

Fractional vegetation cover ratio estimated from radiative transfer modeling outperforms spectral indices to assess fire severity in several Mediterranean plant …

JM Fernández-Guisuraga, L Calvo, C Quintano… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The obtention of wall-to-wall fire severity estimates through reliable remote sensing-based
techniques that align with management needs is a critical factor in post-fire decision-making …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: Remotely sensed optical time series for monitoring vegetation productivity

L Kooistra, K Berger, B Brede, LV Graf, H Aasen… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
Vegetation productivity is a critical indicator of global ecosystem health and is impacted by
human activities and climate change. A wide range of optical sensing platforms, from ground …

The importance of hyperspectral soil albedo information for improving Earth system model projections

RK Braghiere, Y Wang, A Gagné‐Landmann… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth system models (ESMs) typically simplify the representation of land surface spectral
albedo to two values, which correspond to the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400 …

Maximizing societal benefit across multiple hyperspectral earth observation missions: A user needs approach

E Schiavon, A Taramelli, A Tornato… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Imaging spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to support diverse Earth science and
applications objectives, ranging from understanding and mitigating widespread impacts of …

Beyond the visible: Accounting for ultraviolet and far‐red radiation in vegetation productivity and surface energy budgets

Y Wang, RK Braghiere, Y Yin, Y Yao… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) is typically defined as light with a wavelength
within 400–700 nm. However, ultra‐violet (UV) radiation within 280–400 nm and far‐red …

Hyperspectral imaging predicts differences in carbon and nitrogen status among representative biocrust functional groups of the Colorado Plateau

D Yan, SC Reed, WA Rutherford… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are widespread soil photosynthetic communities covering
about 12% of Earth's land surface, and play crucial roles in terrestrial carbon (C) and …

Development of the Ames Global Hyperspectral Synthetic Data set: Surface bidirectional reflectance distribution function

W Wang, J Dungan, V Genovese… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces the Ames Global Hyperspectral Synthetic Data set (AGHSD), in
particular the surface bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) product, to …