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Persistent Identifier
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perma:LIST.7KFAPX |
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Publication Date
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2025-09-26 |
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Title
| Net fluxes of broadband shortwave and photosynthetically active radiation complement NDVI and near infrared reflectance of vegetation to explain gross photosynthesis variability across ecosystems and climate [* Cross-Reference *] |
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Other Identifier
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114123 |
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Author
| Mallick, Kanishka (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Verfaillie, Joseph (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Wang, Tianxin (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Ortiz, Ariane Arias (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Szutu, Daphne (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Yi, Koong (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Kang, Yanghui (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Shortt, Robert (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
Hu, Tian (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
Sulis, Mauro (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
Szantoi, Zoltan (European Space Agency - ESA, Stellenbosch University)
Boulet, Gilles (CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)
Fisher, Joshua B. (Chapman University)
Baldocchi, Dennis (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management) |
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Description
| A significant challenge in global change research is understanding how vegetation interacts with the environment to influence ecosystem gross primary productivity (GPP) through carbon assimilation. One emerging objective is to consistently predict GPP fluctuations worldwide by establishing a robust scaling relationship between GPP measured at flux towers and satellite spectral reflectance data. However, a major hurdle in achieving this goal is the discrepancy in spatial resolution between early satellite measurements and eddy flux measurements. By using a large set of growing season data covering 100 site-years in North and Central America, we explored the potential of transforming incident and reflected shortwave (Rg) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) measurements into a broadband normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and near-infrared (NIR) reflectance of vegetation (NIRv) which simultaneously explains the GPP variability. We found that the broadband NDVI and NIRv derived from Rg and PAR measurements at the daily time scale were highly correlated with Planet Fusion, Landsat-8/9, and Sentinel-2 narrowband NDVI and NIRv across a wide range of climate and ecological gradients. The differences between satellite and broadband NDVI and NIRv were found to be significantly associated with soil background variations, phenological stages, water stress and signal saturation of broadband NIR reflectance at high biomass. The seasonal variability of broadband NDVI and NIRv remarkably captured the seasonality of vegetation phenology, evaporative fraction, GPP and rainfall in different ecosystems. Although saturation of GPP at high NDVI was evident, a linear relationship between broadband NIRv times incident PAR versus GPP indicated the effectiveness of NIRv-based approach to capture the hidden light use efficiency impacts on GPP. Our study concludes that inexpensive measurement of Rg and PAR components can provide reliable information on NDVI, NIRv, and GPP uninterruptedly. This enhances the sensing capability of flux tower sites without requiring additional spectrometer measurements. The proposed in-situ vegetation indices make a compelling case on using radiation signals for handshaking between ecosystem-scale measurements and remote sensing observables relevant to carbon uptake. (2024-05-07)
***This entry has been automatically imported via Infodoc(ASO) CSV by LIST harvest scripts. Please refer to https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114123 for the original and latest version of the dataset and data downloads*** (2025-09-03) |
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Subject
| Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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Keyword
| Broadband vegetation index
Climate
Ecosystem
Gross primary productivity
NIRv
Photosynthetically active radiation
Spectral reflectance |
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Deposit Date
| 2024-05-07 |
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Data Type
| Article |
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Data Source
| Remote Sensing of Environment |