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 …

Canopy clumping index (CI): A review of methods, characteristics, and applications

H Fang - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021 - Elsevier
Canopy clumping index (CI) characterizes the spatial distribution of leaves or needles within
a vegetation canopy. CI is critical in determining the canopy radiation transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of baseline and modified Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor leaf area index retrievals over the United States

LA Brown, R Fernandes, N Djamai, C Meier… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor (SL2P) is made available to users for
the retrieval of vegetation biophysical variables including leaf area index (LAI) from …

Validation of global moderate resolution leaf area index (LAI) products over croplands in northeastern China

H Fang, Y Zhang, S Wei, W Li, Y Ye, T Sun… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, a series of global moderate resolution leaf area index (LAI) products
have become available and been widely applied in many disciplines. At the same time …

Validation of sentinel-2 leaf area index (LAI) product derived from SNAP toolbox and its comparison with global LAI products in an African semi-arid agricultural …

M Kganyago, P Mhangara, T Alexandridis… - Remote Sensing …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study validated SNAP-derived LAI from Sentinel-2 and its consistency with existing
global LAI products. The validation and inter-comparison experiments were performed on …

[HTML][HTML] UAV multispectral images for accurate estimation of the maize LAI considering the effect of soil background

S Liu, X Jin, Y Bai, W Wu, N Cui, M Cheng, Y Liu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The high proportion of soil background pixels in UAV remote sensing images is an important
reason for the uncertainty of high-precision leaf area index (LAI) estimation at early growth …

Global estimation of biophysical variables from Google Earth Engine platform

M Campos-Taberner, Á Moreno-Martínez… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a processing chain for the derivation of global Leaf Area Index (LAI),
Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), Fraction Vegetation …

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 …

Prototyping Sentinel-2 green LAI and brown LAI products for cropland monitoring

E Amin, J Verrelst, JP Rivera-Caicedo, L Pipia… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
For agricultural applications, identification of non-photosynthetic above-ground vegetation is
of great interest as it contributes to assess harvest practices, detecting crop residues or …

Quantifying vegetation biophysical variables from the Sentinel-3/FLEX tandem mission: Evaluation of the synergy of OLCI and FLORIS data sources

C De Grave, J Verrelst, P Morcillo-Pallarés… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ESA's forthcoming FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) mission is dedicated to the global
monitoring of the vegetation's chlorophyll fluorescence by means of an imaging …