Review Reports

Reviewer

Reviewer comment

Response

Reviewer 1

Formatting: Italicize all Latin names (e.g., line 18 "sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)", lines 71, 73).

Accepted: Done. All scientific names have been italicized throughout the manuscript as requested.

Condense the "Dataset Specifications" table to eliminate redundancy with the introduction

Accepted: Done. The "Dataset Specifications" table has been condensed to remove information already present in the introduction, thereby avoiding redundancy.

Streamline "Value of the Data" section to reduce repetition

Accepted: Done. We have consolidated this content (formerly sections 4-7) into a single, more streamlined section to reduce repetition.

Rename "Summary" to "Introduction"

Accepted: Thank you for this suggestion. We would like to clarify that as this is a data article submitted to a data journal, we must adhere to the journal's specific author guidelines. These guidelines propose that manuscripts of this type include sections such as "Summary," "Data Description Methods," and "User Notes." This is why a standard "Introduction" or "Materials and Methods" section is not used. We hope this explains the manuscript's structure.

Consolidate Sections 4-7 into a unified "Materials and Methods" section

Accepted: Thank you for this suggestion. We would like to clarify that as this is a data article submitted to a data journal, we must adhere to the journal's specific author guidelines. These guidelines propose that manuscripts of this type include sections such as "Summary," "Data Description Methods," and "User Notes." This is why a standard "Introduction" or "Materials and Methods" section is not used. We hope this explains the manuscript's structure.

Eliminate or shorten lines 117-125 (repetitive content)

Accepted: Done. The indicated lines, which contained repetitive content, have been removed from the manuscript.

Delete lines 140-142

Accepted: Done. The indicated lines, which contained repetitive content, have been removed from the manuscript

Enhance Figure 1 and 4 font sizes for readability

Accepted: Done. Figures 1 and 4 have been improved with larger font sizes to enhance readability.

Expand Figure 2 to include representative images for each crop/leaf type and condition (senescent, healthy, wilted)

Accepted: Done. Figure 2 has been expanded to include representative images for the different types of leaves as examples, just as you suggested.

Specify R packages, PAST, and MATLAB versions used in statistical analyses.

Accepted: Done. We have now specified the versions for all packages and software used in the analysis.

Relocate Section 10 ("Correlations Between Spectrophotometry Measurements and Vegetation Indices") to Results section.

Add Discussion and Conclusion sections, and provide supplementary files containing individual index information.

Accepted: Due to the specific format of a data article in this journal, "Discussion" and "Conclusion" sections are not permitted. The article's scope is strictly limited to the description and validation of the dataset. However, in response to the second part of your comment, we have prepared and included the supplementary files containing the individual index information as requested.

Reviewer

Reviewer comment

Response

Reviewer 2

Too long sentences was used, this make confusion

- Methodology present most of abstract, while the results is not enough

- Scientific names should be italic

- use past tense to present the results of study, not present tense

This part need to restructured

Accepted: Thank you for this feedback. We agree that clarity is essential. We have carefully revised the entire manuscript to shorten sentences and improve readability.

Done. All scientific names have now been italicized throughout the manuscript as requested.

too long sentence make confusion, divide

Accepted: Thank you for this feedback. We agree that clarity is essential. We have carefully revised the entire manuscript to shorten sentences and improve readability.

I do not know about the first and second headings, It is my first time to see such headings.

I do not know If it is acceptable for journal structure

Accepted: We understand the confusion, as the section headings are unconventional. The journal’s author guidelines for data articles require four fundamental sections: Summary, Data Descriptor, Methods, and User Notes. We are obligated to use this specific structure and cannot restructure sections 4-9 into a conventional "Materials and Methods" section or change the primary section headings. We hope this clarifies why the manuscript is organized in this way.

This is summary or Introduction ??

The research should begin with introduction

Accepted: We appreciate you pointing this out. As a data article, the manuscript is required to follow the journal's structure, which uses a "Summary" instead of a traditional "Abstract" or "Introduction." The purpose of the "Summary" in a data article is to describe the dataset and the methods used to generate it, rather than presenting research results. The journal guidelines for this article type explicitly state that detailed results should not be included here

restructure the section 4-9

This is the start of "Materials and methods" section, which may divided into several subheading i.e.

data description,

study area and plant materials,

Laboratory Spectrophotometry ,

Multispectral Image Acquisition ,

Statistical Pipeline of the Data

Accepted: Thank you for this suggestion. We would like to clarify that as this is a data article submitted to a data journal, we must adhere to the journal's specific author guidelines. These guidelines propose that manuscripts of this type include sections such as "Summary," "Data Description Methods," and "User Notes." This is why a standard "Introduction" or "Materials and Methods" section is not used. We hope this explains the manuscript's structure.

this section make confusion, no need to repeat the objectives in this part. to be clear, after study area, add separate section for each methodology

Accepted: The section you are referring to is the "User Notes" section, which is a required component of this data article format. Its purpose is to explain the value and potential applications of the dataset to future users. We have revised it for clarity and to reduce repetition. However, we must maintain it as a distinct section per the journal's requirements.

need more details about results. For example, you should mentioned the range of values of LCC for each methods and for each plant species under each stages

then begin to correlate the value by two methods

Accepted: This is an excellent point for a research article. However, for a data article, the journal guidelines explicitly state that we should not show detailed results or perform in-depth analysis. The focus must remain on describing the dataset and its value, not on presenting research findings. Therefore, we cannot include the specific ranges and detailed correlations as suggested, as this would go beyond the scope defined by the journal for this article type. The raw data containing this information is, however, available in the dataset itself for other researchers to use.