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 …

Tamm review: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is both a determinant and a consequence of important processes in vegetation canopies

GG Parker - Forest Ecology and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Leaf Area Index, LAI, the total surface area of leaves per unit of ground area (m 2
m− 2), is a collective measure of the foliar portion of vegetation canopy structure. The …

High resolution model intercomparison project (HighResMIP v1. 0) for CMIP6

RJ Haarsma, MJ Roberts, PL Vidale… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional
scales, rely on the driving processes being represented with fidelity in model simulations …

Long-time-series global land surface satellite leaf area index product derived from MODIS and AVHRR surface reflectance

Z Xiao, S Liang, J Wang, Y Xiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation biophysical variable and has been widely
used for crop growth monitoring and yield estimation, land-surface process simulation, and …

A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

S Liang, X Zhao, S Liu, W Yuan, X Cheng… - … Journal of Digital …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, five Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products have been released: leaf
area index (LAI), shortwave broadband albedo, longwave broadband emissivity, incident …

Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR product collection 6. Part 2: Validation and intercomparison

K Yan, T Park, G Yan, Z Liu, B Yang, C Chen… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to assess the latest version of the MODIS LAI/FPAR product
(MOD15A2H), namely Collection 6 (C6). We comprehensively evaluate this product through …

Inconsistencies of interannual variability and trends in long‐term satellite leaf area index products

C Jiang, Y Ryu, H Fang, R Myneni… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the long‐term performance of global satellite leaf area index (LAI) products is
important for global change research. However, few effort has been devoted to evaluating …

Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using Copernicus Ground Based …

LA Brown, C Meier, H Morris, J Pastor-Guzman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
With a growing number of Earth observation (EO) products available through operational
programmes such as the European Union's Copernicus, there is increasing emphasis on …

Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR product collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and improvements

K Yan, T Park, G Yan, C Chen, B Yang, Z Liu… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
As the latest version of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area
Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) products, Collection …

Evaluation of consistency among three NDVI products applied to High Mountain Asia in 2000–2015

Y Liu, Z Li, Y Chen, Y Li, H Li, Q Xia… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study evaluates consistency among three Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index (NDVI) datasets, namely GIMMS, MODIS and SPOT, to characterize alpine vegetation …