Recent Advances in Terrestrial Vegetation Productivity with Remote Sensing Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetation productivity is an important component of the terrestrial carbon cycle, which not only reflects the productivity of vegetation communities and characterizes the quality of terrestrial ecosystems but also represents a major factor in determining the carbon source-sink of ecosystems and regulating ecological processes. Therefore, vegetation productivity plays a crucial role in global climate change and the carbon balance, and it has been widely integrated into vegetation–climate interaction studies, land-use evaluation, regional ecological planning, vegetation growth monitoring, crop yield estimation, soil, and water erosion assessments, ecological benefit assessments, etc. Under the interactive influences of climate change and human activities, terrestrial vegetation productivity has changed significantly. It is therefore urgent that dynamic and accurate monitoring of its changes is carried out; the reasons for these changes need to be analyzed for a deeper understanding of their mechanisms.

Remote sensing is an important tool for vegetation productivity estimation, and the development of new remote sensing technologies and methods has generated new opportunities for accurate estimation and application of vegetation productivity. Therefore, with the support of new remote sensing technologies and methods, developing more accurate remote sensing models for vegetation productivity estimation, exploring the interactive effects of multiple factors on terrestrial vegetation productivity, and of terrestrial vegetation productivity on the climate will not only help to deepen the understanding of the “land-atmosphere” carbon cycle mechanism but also provide technical and theoretical support to achieve the goal of “carbon neutrality”.

The purpose of this Special Issue was to introduce new data and methods for remote sensing estimation of terrestrial vegetation productivity, the interactive effects of multiple factors on terrestrial vegetation productivity, and the impact of the feedback mechanism of terrestrial vegetation productivity on climate. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• New data and models for remote sensing estimation of vegetation productivity;
• Driving factors and spatio-temporal differentiations of vegetation productivity;
• Quantitative effects of climate change and human activities on vegetation productivity;
• Feedback of terrestrial vegetation productivity to climate;
• Applications of vegetation productivity in ecological assessment and sustainable development.

Prof. Dr. Wenquan Zhu
Prof. Dr. Dailiang Peng
Dr. Zhiying Xie
Guest Editors

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