Ecophysiological Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Recent developments in satellite remote sensing include new sensors and/or complimentary observations from different sensors that are providing new insight and capabilities for understanding vegetation and ecosystem properties, dynamics and functional processes. Next generation missions and sensors are now underway or scheduled for near-term operations that may provide new capabilities for better understanding and monitoring of vegetation ecophysiology, including photosynthesis and respiration, canopy phenology, structure, water use, and environmental stress behaviour. Global observations from continuing or similar overlapping satellite missions now span multiple decades and also multiple spectral ranges (visible, near-infrared, thermal, microwave, etc.), enabling more precise documentation and new understanding of vegetation changes and their environmental controls.

In this Special Issue on “Ecophysiological Remote Sensing”, we invite papers involving one or more of the following topical areas, emphasizing satellite remote sensing of properties and processes pertaining to terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation; investigations using multi-scale satellite, airborne and ground based observations are also encouraged:

• New technological developments, including next generation sensors and missions.
• Fusion of multi-sensor observations, including satellite, and airborne and terrestrial sources.
• Development and analysis of long time series satellite environmental data records for analysing climate related trends, and anomalies.
• New application studies, including vegetation phenology and stress, drought detection and monitoring, agriculture, rangeland, and forestry.

Dr. John S. Kimball
Dr. Kaiyu Guan
Guest Editors

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