Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally

Y Zeng, D Hao, A Huete, B Dechant, J Berry… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Vegetation indices (VIs), which describe remotely sensed vegetation properties such as
photosynthetic activity and canopy structure, are widely used to study vegetation dynamics …

Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications

Y Pei, J Dong, Y Zhang, W Yuan, R Doughty… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light use efficiency (LUE) models have been widely used to estimate terrestrial gross
primary production (GPP) at local, regional, and global scales, which is vital for …

Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space

W Li, J Pacheco-Labrador, M Migliavacca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The response of vegetation physiology to drought at large spatial scales is poorly
understood due to a lack of direct observations. Here, we study vegetation drought …

Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis

X Luo, TF Keenan, JM Chen, H Croft… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Plants invest a considerable amount of leaf nitrogen in the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose-
1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), forming a strong coupling of nitrogen …

[HTML][HTML] NIRVP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales

B Dechant, Y Ryu, G Badgley, P Köhler… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a promising new tool for remotely estimating
photosynthesis. However, the degree to which incoming solar radiation and the structure of …

Improved estimation of leaf chlorophyll content of row crops from canopy reflectance spectra through minimizing canopy structural effects and optimizing off-noon …

D Li, JM Chen, X Zhang, Y Yan, J Zhu, H Zheng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Leaf chlorophyll content (LCC), as an important indicator of photosynthetic capacity and
nitrogen status, has been non-destructively estimated from canopy reflectance spectra in …

Assessing a soil-removed semi-empirical model for estimating leaf chlorophyll content

D Li, JM Chen, W Yu, H Zheng, X Yao, W Cao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) is an important indicator of foliar nitrogen status and
photosynthetic capacity. Compared to physical models, the generality of empirical models …

[HTML][HTML] Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research

JM Chen, R Wang, Y Liu, L He, H Croft… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The maximum rate of Rubisco carboxylation (V cmax) determines leaf photosynthetic
capacity and is a key parameter for estimating the terrestrial carbon cycle, but its spatial …

Retrieving SPAD values of summer maize using UAV hyperspectral data based on multiple machine learning algorithm

B Sudu, G Rong, S Guga, K Li, F Zhi, Y Guo, J Zhang… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral images to accurately estimate the
chlorophyll content of summer maize is of great significance for crop growth monitoring …

A novel red‐edge spectral index for retrieving the leaf chlorophyll content

H Zhang, J Li, Q Liu, S Lin, A Huete… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The leaf chlorophyll content (Chlleaf) is a crucial vegetation parameter in carbon cycle
modelling and agricultural monitoring at local, regional and global scales. The red‐edge …