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 …

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning

WB Wu, J Ma, E Banzhaf, ME Meadows, ZW Yu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Building height is a crucial variable in the study of urban environments, regional climates,
and human-environment interactions. However, high-resolution data on building height …

[HTML][HTML] A standardized catalogue of spectral indices to advance the use of remote sensing in Earth system research

D Montero, C Aybar, MD Mahecha, F Martinuzzi… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Spectral Indices derived from multispectral remote sensing products are extensively used to
monitor Earth system dynamics (eg vegetation dynamics, water bodies, fire regimes). The …

Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures

Y Zeng, D Hao, T Park, P Zhu, A Huete… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Vegetation 'greenness' characterized by spectral vegetation indices (VIs) is an integrative
measure of vegetation leaf abundance, biochemical properties and pigment composition …

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 …

Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

BD Stocker, J Zscheischler, TF Keenan, IC Prentice… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Satellite retrievals of information about the Earth's surface are widely used to monitor global
terrestrial photosynthesis and primary production and to examine the ecological impacts of …

A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016

Y Zhang, X Xiao, X Wu, S Zhou, G Zhang, Y Qin… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Accurate estimation of the gross primary production (GPP) of terrestrial vegetation is vital for
understanding the global carbon cycle and predicting future climate change. Multiple GPP …

An enhanced pixel-based phenological feature for accurate paddy rice mapping with Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine

R Ni, J Tian, X Li, D Yin, J Li, H Gong, J Zhang… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate paddy rice mapping with remote sensing at a regional scale plays critical roles in
agriculture and ecology. Previous studies mainly employed a single key phenological period …

Toward mapping crop progress at field scales through fusion of Landsat and MODIS imagery

F Gao, MC Anderson, X Zhang, Z Yang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability to regionally monitor crop progress and condition through the growing season
benefits both crop management and yield estimation. In the United States, these metrics are …