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Retrieval of Seasonal Leaf Area Index from Simulated EnMAP Data through Optimized LUT-Based Inversion of the PROSAIL Model

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Matthias Locherer
*,
Tobias Hank
,
Martin Danner
and
Wolfram Mauser
Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Luisenstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Academic Editors: Saskia Foerster, Véronique Carrere, Michael Rast, Karl Staenz and Prasad S. Thenkabail
Remote Sens. 2015, 7(8), 10321-10346; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70810321
Received: 29 May 2015 / Revised: 23 July 2015 / Accepted: 7 August 2015 / Published: 12 August 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) Mission: Preparing for Its Scientific Exploitation)
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The upcoming satellite mission EnMAP offers the opportunity to retrieve information on the seasonal development of vegetation parameters on a regional scale based on hyperspectral data. This study aims to investigate whether an analysis method for the retrieval of leaf area index (LAI), developed and validated on the 4 m resolution scale of six airborne datasets covering the 2012 growing period, is transferable to the spaceborne 30 m resolution scale of the future EnMAP mission. The widely used PROSAIL model is applied to generate look-up-table (LUT) libraries, by which the model is inverted to derive LAI information. With the goal of defining the impact of different selection criteria in the inversion process, different techniques for the LUT based inversion are tested, such as several cost functions, type and amount of artificial noise, number of considered solutions and type of averaging method. The optimal inversion procedure (Laplace, median, 4% inverse multiplicative noise, 350 out of 100,000 averages) is identified by validating the results against corresponding in-situ measurements (n = 330) of LAI. Finally, the best performing LUT inversion (R2 = 0.65, RMSE = 0.64) is adapted to simulated EnMAP data, generated from the airborne acquisitions. The comparison of the retrieval results to upscaled maps of LAI, previously validated on the 4 m scale, shows that the optimized retrieval method can successfully be transferred to spaceborne EnMAP data. View Full-Text
Keywords: hyperspectral; EnMAP; vegetation; agriculture; LAI; LUT; radiative transfer model; PROSAIL; model inversion; simulated data hyperspectral; EnMAP; vegetation; agriculture; LAI; LUT; radiative transfer model; PROSAIL; model inversion; simulated data
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Locherer, M.; Hank, T.; Danner, M.; Mauser, W. Retrieval of Seasonal Leaf Area Index from Simulated EnMAP Data through Optimized LUT-Based Inversion of the PROSAIL Model. Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 10321-10346. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70810321

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Locherer M, Hank T, Danner M, Mauser W. Retrieval of Seasonal Leaf Area Index from Simulated EnMAP Data through Optimized LUT-Based Inversion of the PROSAIL Model. Remote Sensing. 2015; 7(8):10321-10346. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70810321

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Locherer, Matthias, Tobias Hank, Martin Danner, and Wolfram Mauser. 2015. "Retrieval of Seasonal Leaf Area Index from Simulated EnMAP Data through Optimized LUT-Based Inversion of the PROSAIL Model" Remote Sensing 7, no. 8: 10321-10346. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70810321

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