In this paper, we estimate the trends and variability in Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)-derived terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP) over India for the period 1982–2006. We find an increasing trend of 3.9% per decade (r = 0.78...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key vegetation parameter and ecological indicator for tracking natural environmental change. High-quality Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Net primary productivity (MODIS-NPP) products are critical for...
The launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and its follow-on NOAA Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) satellites ma...
The net primary productivity (NPP) of vegetation is an important indicator used to evaluate the quality of terrestrial ecosystems and characterize the carbon balance of ecosystems. In this study, the spatiotemporal distribution and dynamic change in...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key indicator of the health of forest ecosystems that offers important information about the net carbon sequestration capacity of these systems. Precise assessment of NPP is crucial for measuring carbon fixation an...
Although alpine grassland net primary productivity (NPP) plays an important role in balancing the carbon cycle and is extremely vulnerable to climate factors, on the Tibetan Plateau, the generalized effect of climate factors on the NPP in areas with...
The validation of sea surface temperature (SST) retrieved from the new sensor Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite is essential for the interpretation, use, and impr...
The regions near the Tropic of Cancer are a latitudinal geographical zone with typical climatic, topographic, and human landscape features. It is necessary to explore the region’s net primary productivity (NPP) dynamics as it combines complex t...
Ordos City is an important energy supply city for Chinese provinces and cities, providing a secure energy supply for China while also generating corresponding environmental pollution. Examining the spatiotemporal patterns of net primary productivity...
The advent of a range of high-precision NPP products, including MODIS NPP, MOD17 NPP, and GIMMS NPP, has sparked growing interest in the study of Earth’s ecosystems. In order to enhance comprehension of ecosystem health, in order to facilitate...
Studies on the impacts of a particular land use type change are relatively rare, especially in the Tibetan Plateau region (TP). This study focused on the impacts of farmland use change on grain supply and ecosystem stability in the Yarlung Zangbo riv...
To assess the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems, it is crucial to consider the net primary productivity (NPP) of vegetation. Understanding the response of NPP in Xinjiang’s vegetation to climate factors and human activities is essential...
Based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectoradiometer (MODIS) remote sensing data, meteorological observation data, multisource atmospheric circulation, and sea surface temperature (SST) data from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, we estimated the net primary pr...
The objective of this study is to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of net primary production (NPP) change combined with land use and to further explore the driving factors of NPP change, allowing us to provide a scientific reference point for opti...
Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is a crucial indicator of ecological environment quality. To better understand the carbon absorption and carbon cycling capabilities of Henan Province, this study investigates the trends and driving factors of NPP acros...
Net primary productivity (NPP) of vegetation is considered an important indicator for ecological stability and is the main object for analyzing the factors influencing the terrestrial carbon cycle. Recent studies have made clear the changes in the NP...
Atmospheric aerosols can elicit variations in how much solar radiation reaches the ground surface due to scattering and absorption, which may affect plant photosynthesis and carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, the spatio-temporal...
Grassland productivity is crucial for sustainable alpine livestock farming, yet the combined effects of climate change and topography remain unclear. Using long-term time series data of grassland NPP derived from Landsat imagery, along with meteorolo...
This study used Theil–Sen median trend analysis and Mann–Kendall test, which are more suitable for long-term series research, to analyze high-precision NPP data and investigate the spatiotemporal characteristics of NPP (net primary produc...
Amidst the intensifying challenges of global climate change and the increasing demand for regional sustainable development, accurately assessing the contributions and dynamic characteristics of different land-use types to regional carbon sink pattern...
The dominant influencing factors of changes in vegetation NPP and the relative roles of climate–human factors on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) differ between historical periods and are unclear. Therefore, there is an urgent need to syst...
Net Primary Productivity (NPP) serves as a key indicator of ecosystem health and productivity. However, most existing research focuses on primary land cover types, overlooking the dynamic response processes of NPP in refined vegetation types to multi...
Cloud Top Height (CTH) is a fundamental parameter in atmospheric science, critically influencing Earth’s radiation budget and hydrological cycle. Satellite-based passive remote sensing provides the primary means of monitoring CTH on a global sc...
The study of vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) is essential in the Yanshan–Taihang Mountain Ecological Conservation Zone (YTECZ). Serving as an ecological security barrier for the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, understanding...
Hereby, we report the new experimental data of plant biomass and biological productivity (net primary production, NPP) of wetland/peatland plant communities of oligotrophic bogs located on the same latitude, but at a distance of 1300 km west-east in...
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Program (S-NPP) satellite, launched in late 2011, has reached the decade landmark under successful operations. VIIRS has 22 spectral bands, 7...
Larch (Larix principis-rupprechtii Mayr) is a major coniferous tree species in northern China, and climate change has serious impacts on larch growth. However, the impact of future climate change on net primary productivity (NPP) and the growth suita...
With climate change, frequent forest fires and prolonged fire period occur all over the world. Moreover, carbon emission from forest fire affects the carbon cycle of the forest ecosystem. However, this effect varies by region with no uniform conclusi...
Temporal series of lidar, properly field-validated, can provide critical information allowing in-ferences about the dynamics of biomass and carbon in forest canopies. Forest canopies gain carbon through net primary production (NPP) and lose carbon th...
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is a key instrument onboard the Suomi NPP (S-NPP) and the NOAA-20 satellites that provides state-of-the-art Earth observations for ocean, land, aerosol, and cloud applications. VIIRS Reflective So...
To host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing and Zhangjiakou implemented extensive ecological restoration projects, improving the ecological quality of the region. However, detailed evidence of long-term spatiotemporal dynamics in vegetation productivit...
A preliminary derived concentration guideline level (DCGL) was calculated for the soil of the Wolsong nuclear power plant (NPP) (the first commercial pressurized heavy water reactor in South Korea) site using the RESRAD-ONSITE computational code. In...
The 2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, registering a magnitude of 7.0, triggered a series of devastating geohazards, including landslides, collapses, and mudslides within the Jiuzhaigou World Natural Heritage Site. These destructive events obliterated exten...
The anthropogenic nighttime light (NTL) data that are acquired by satellites can characterize the intensity of human activities on the ground. It has been widely used in urban development assessment, socioeconomic estimate, and other applications. Ho...
Radiometric calibration coefficients for the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) reflective solar bands have been reprocessed from the beginning of the Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) mission until present. An automated...
The processes of urbanization and climate change have exerted a marked influence on net primary productivity (NPP). However, the underlying mechanisms that drive these effects remain intricate and insufficiently understood. The processes of urbanizat...
Global warming has exerted widespread impacts on the terrestrial ecosystem in the past three decades. Vegetation is an important part of the terrestrial ecosystem, and its net primary productivity (NPP) is an important variable in the exchange of mat...
Monitoring vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) is very important for evaluating ecosystem health. However, the nonlinear characteristics of the vegetation NPP remain unclear in the six provinces along the Maritime Silk Road in China. In this st...
In the context of strengthening the construction of ecological civilization and accelerating the “carbon peak” in China, the regional ecological pattern and its connection with carbon sink capacity have become an urgent topic. Given that...
Drought causes significant losses in vegetation net primary productivity (NPP). However, the lack of real-time, large-scale NPP data poses challenges in analyzing the relationship between drought and NPP. Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)...
Grazing pressure (GP) was a key factor influencing net primary productivity (NPP) in pasturelands and was characterized by two indicators: grazing intensity (GI) and grazing density (GD). However, current research has not yet clarified whether the me...
Nighttime light data play an important role in the research on cities, while the urban centers over a large spatial scale are still far from clearly understood. Aiming at the current challenges in monitoring the spatial structure of cities using nigh...
Identifying the relative contributions of climate change and human activities to alpine grassland dynamics is critical for understanding grassland degradation mechanisms. In this study, first, the actual NPP (NPPa) was obtained by MOD17A3. Second, we...
Containment is the last barrier for release of radioactive materials in the case of an accident in the nuclear power plant (NPP). Its overall integrity is tested during a containment integrated leak rate test (CILRT) at the design pressure, at regula...
As two main drivers of vegetation dynamics, climate variability and human activities greatly influence net primary productivity (NPP) variability by altering the hydrothermal conditions and biogeochemical cycles. Therefore, studying NPP variability a...
Observing and understanding changes in Africa is a hotspot in global ecological environmental research since the early 1970s. As possible causes of environmental degradation, frequent droughts and human activities attracted wide attention. Remote sen...
As the third largest river basin in the world, the Yangtze River basin in China has vegetation ecosystems in its plain, mountain, and alpine regions. Studying the change characteristics of the vegetation’s net primary productivity (NPP) and its...
Long-term time series analysis requires consistent data records from satellites. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar orbiting Partner (S-NPP) satellite launched in 2011 requires a major effort to pro...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key metric for evaluating ecosystem carbon sink capacity and defining vegetation. Despite extensive research on vegetation NPP, much relies on coarse spatial resolution data, which often overlooks regional spatial...
Studying the spatio-temporal changes and driving mechanisms of vegetation’s net primary productivity (NPP) is critical for achieving green and low-carbon development, as well as the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. This article emplo...
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