The Retrievals and Application of Vegetation Optical Depth and Soil Moisture
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 1540
Special Issue Editors
Interests: passive microwave remote sensing; vegetation optical depth; carbon balance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: vegetation productivity; vegetation optical depth; solar-induced fluoscence
Interests: microwave remote sensing; forest biomass and carbon; vegetation optical depth
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Interests: passive and active microwave remote sensing of soil and vegetation; water and carbon cycles; soil moisture; vegetation optical depth (VOD); L-MEB model (L-band microwave emission of the biosphere); Sentinel 1; ASCAT; AMSR2; SMAP; SMOS-IC
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vegetation distribution, phenology, and productivity are very sensitive to climate change, which impacts all terrestrial ecosystems. Microwave satellite remote sensing is a powerful tool to monitor the soil moisture vegetation dynamics from the local to the global scales owing to the great diversity of the frequency domains at various spatial and temporal resolutions. Vegetation optical depth (VOD), a vegetation index retrieved from passive or active microwave remote sensing systems, is directly proportional to the water content of the total aboveground vegetation. This index has been increasingly used for ecological applications at large scales due to its independence from atmospheric perturbations and sensitivity to biomass. This Special Issue aims to present reviews and recent advances of general interest in the use of soil moisture and VOD data for ecological applications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) advancing remote sensing techniques in retrieving VOD, original studies based on the spatial and/or temporal monitoring of VOD, or ecological applications based on VOD and soil moisture from the local to global scales.
Prof. Dr. Lei Fan
Dr. Tianxiang Cui
Dr. Zhongbing Chang
Dr. Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microwave remote sensing
- vegetation optical depth
- soil moisture
- remote sensing
- eco-hydrological applications
- vegetation water content
- biomass
