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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,012 Views
26 Pages

Improvements and Evaluation of the Agro-Hydrologic VegET Model for Large-Area Water Budget Analysis and Drought Monitoring

  • Gabriel B. Senay,
  • Stefanie Kagone,
  • Gabriel E. L. Parrish,
  • Kul Khand,
  • Olena Boiko and
  • Naga M. Velpuri

10 August 2023

We enhanced the agro-hydrologic VegET model to include snow accumulation and melt processes and the separation of runoff into surface runoff and deep drainage. Driven by global weather datasets and parameterized by land surface phenology (LSP), the e...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydrology and Water Resources in Agriculture and Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
12,172 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2008

The main objective of this study is to present an improved modeling technique called Vegetation ET (VegET) that integrates commonly used water balance algorithms with remotely sensed Land Surface Phenology (LSP) parameter to conduct operational veget...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,175 Views
20 Pages

Microwave Vegetation Index from Multi-Angular Observations and Its Application in Vegetation Properties Retrieval: Theoretical Modelling

  • Somayeh Talebiesfandarani,
  • Tianjie Zhao,
  • Jiancheng Shi,
  • Paolo Ferrazzoli,
  • Jean-Pierre Wigneron,
  • Mehdi Zamani and
  • Peejush Pani

26 March 2019

Monitoring global vegetation dynamics is of great importance for many environmental applications. The vegetation optical depth (VOD), derived from passive microwave observation, is sensitive to the water content in all aboveground vegetation and coul...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,364 Views
25 Pages

Considerable debate exists on whether exposure to vegetation cover is associated with better mental health outcomes. Past studies could not accurately capture people’s exposure to surrounding vegetation and heavily relied on non-spatial models, where...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,590 Views
15 Pages

The paper presents a sensitivity analysis of two main parameters used in a mathematic model able to evaluate the effects of changing hydrology on the growth of riparian vegetation along rivers and its effects on the cross-section width. Due to a lack...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,255 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Biomorphodynamic Model to Enhance Bedload Transport Modelling in Emergent and Submerged Rigid Vegetation

  • Antonia Dallmeier,
  • Rebekka Kopmann,
  • Roser Casas Mulet,
  • Hannah Schwedhelm,
  • Frederik Folke and
  • Nils Rüther

21 November 2025

Riparian and floodplain vegetation play a key role in controlling flow resistance, sediment transport, and channel morphology, shaping the dynamics of riverine ecosystems. Accurately representing these vegetation–flow–sediment interaction...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,289 Views
20 Pages

Multilayer Numerical Modeling of Flows through Vegetation Using a Mixing-Length Turbulence Model

  • Hector Barrios-Piña,
  • Hermilo Ramírez-León,
  • Clemente Rodríguez-Cuevas and
  • Carlos Couder-Castañeda

21 July 2014

This work focuses on the effects of vegetation on a fluid flow pattern. In this numerical research, we verify the applicability of a simpler turbulence model than the commonly used k-" model to predict the mean flow through vegetation. The novel char...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,414 Views
19 Pages

28 January 2023

Climate change will alter the site conditions for European vegetation. This is likely to shift the potential distribution of species and habitats outside its current boundaries. To enable future projections on shifts in vegetation potentials, we fitt...

(This article belongs to the Topic The Effect of Climate Change on Crops and Natural Ecosystems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,078 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2019

The natural salt meadows of Tilopozo in the hyperarid, Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which are located at approximately 2800 m above sea level, are under pressure from industrial activity, and cultivation and grazing by local communities. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,171 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2022

In this work, we propose a mathematical model representing the thermal interaction between vegetation cover and the soil underneath it. This model consists of a one-dimensional reaction–diffusion equation describing the evolution of the tempera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Energy and Environment 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,495 Views
17 Pages

Theoretical Evaluation of Water Cloud Model Vegetation Parameters

  • Sang-Eun Park,
  • Yoon Taek Jung,
  • Jae-Hyoung Cho,
  • Hyoi Moon and
  • Seung-hoon Han

12 April 2019

The advantage of implementing the Water Cloud Model (WCM) is in being able to express complex scattering characteristics in a vegetated area with simple bulk vegetation descriptors. However, there has been a lack of understanding or consensus about t...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,159 Views
22 Pages

Canopy Reflectance Modeling of Aquatic Vegetation for Algorithm Development: Global Sensitivity Analysis

  • Guanhua Zhou,
  • Zhongqi Ma,
  • Shubha Sathyendranath,
  • Trevor Platt,
  • Cheng Jiang and
  • Kang Sun

27 May 2018

Optical remote sensing of aquatic vegetation in shallow water is an essential aid to ecosystem protection, but it is difficult because the spectral characteristics of the vegetation are sensitive to external features such as water background effects,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Ocean Colour)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,015 Views
21 Pages

Influence of Riparian Vegetation on River Morphodynamics: A Numerical Modeling Framework

  • Ricardo Gutiérrez,
  • Alejandro Mendoza and
  • Moisés Berezowsky

7 April 2026

Riparian vegetation plays an important role in the morphological evolution of rivers; here, an alternative numerical methodology for modeling river morphodynamics influenced by vegetation is presented. The approach integrates a vegetation growth and...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,583 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Flow Resistance Models Based on Field Experiments in a Partly Vegetated Reclamation Channel

  • Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama,
  • Alessandro Errico,
  • Simona Francalanci,
  • Luca Solari,
  • Federico Preti and
  • Giovanni Battista Chirico

This study presents a methodology for improving the efficiency of Baptist and Stone and Shen models in predicting the global water flow resistance of a reclamation channel partly vegetated by rigid and emergent riparian plants. The results of the two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
921 Views
16 Pages

The Novel Models for Identifying the Vertical Structure of Urban Vegetation from UAV LiDAR Data

  • Hang Yang,
  • Rongxin Deng,
  • Xinmeng Jing,
  • Zhen Dong,
  • Xiaoyu Yang,
  • Jingyi Li and
  • Zhiwen Mei

26 February 2026

Accurate quantification of vegetation vertical structure is crucial for analyzing the ecological functions of urban green spaces. However, constrained by the complexity of vegetation structure and spatial heterogeneity, current approaches for extract...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Remote Sensing Technology for Precision Forestry and Carbon Sink Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,283 Views
29 Pages

Application of a Coupled Vegetation Competition and Groundwater Simulation Model to Study Effects of Sea Level Rise and Storm Surges on Coastal Vegetation

  • Su Yean Teh,
  • Michael Turtora,
  • Donald L. DeAngelis,
  • Jiang Jiang,
  • Leonard Pearlstine,
  • Thomas J. Smith and
  • Hock Lye Koh

25 September 2015

Global climate change poses challenges to areas such as low-lying coastal zones, where sea level rise (SLR) and storm-surge overwash events can have long-term effects on vegetation and on soil and groundwater salinities, posing risks of habitat loss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal Hazards Related to Storm Surge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,426 Views
21 Pages

Parameterization of Vegetation Scattering Albedo in the Tau-Omega Model for Soil Moisture Retrieval on Croplands

  • Chang-Hwan Park,
  • Thomas Jagdhuber,
  • Andreas Colliander,
  • Johan Lee,
  • Aaron Berg,
  • Michael Cosh,
  • Seung-Bum Kim,
  • Yoonjae Kim and
  • Volker Wulfmeyer

10 September 2020

An accurate radiative transfer model (RTM) is essential for the retrieval of soil moisture (SM) from microwave remote sensing data, such as the passive microwave measurements from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. This mission delivers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,569 Views
20 Pages

10 January 2025

Improvements in vegetation coverage are driven by both resource endowment conditions and policy behaviors. To accurately reflect the vegetation restoration effect after ecological policies, this study used the potential realization model to calculate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,294 Views
16 Pages

9 January 2024

With the development of satellite remote sensing technology, a substantial quantity of remote sensing data can be obtained every day, but the ability to extract information from these data remains poor, especially regarding intelligent extraction mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Mountain and Plateau Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,766 Views
18 Pages

27 May 2022

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an essential part of the global water cycle, and accurate quantification of ET is of great significance for hydrological research and practice. The Priestley-Taylor Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PT-JPL) model is a commonly use...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Estimation of Crop Coefficients and Evapotranspiration through Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,730 Views
21 Pages

9 May 2025

Riparian vegetation reduces the conveyance capacity and increases the likelihood of floods. Studies that consider vegetation in flow modeling rely on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, which restrict the covered area. In contrast, this study explore...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing to Flood and Drought Analysis, Monitoring and Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,437 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Model of Supersaturated Total Dissolved Gas Dissipation in a Channel with Vegetation

  • Youquan Yuan,
  • Yinghan Huang,
  • Jingjie Feng,
  • Ran Li,
  • Ruidong An and
  • Juping Huang

1 December 2018

The recent construction and operation of high dams have greatly changed the natural flood process. To meet the ecological demands and flood control requirements of rivers, dams discharge flow through the flood discharge facility, always accompanied b...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,601 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2021

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important part of the water, carbon, and energy cycles in ecosystems, especially in the drylands. However, due to the particularity of sparse vegetation, the estimation accuracy of ET has been relatively low in the dryla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,294 Views
18 Pages

In order to stop and reverse land degradation and curb the loss of biodiversity, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development proposes to combat desertification. In this paper, a fractional vegetation–water model in an arid flat e...

(This article belongs to the Section Numerical and Computational Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,667 Views
21 Pages

7 July 2023

In soybean, lodging is sometimes caused by strong winds and rains, resulting in a decrease in yield and quality. Technical measures against lodging include “pinching”, in which the main stem is pruned when excessive growth is expected. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,540 Views
13 Pages

Estimation Model for Cotton Canopy Structure Parameters Based on Spectral Vegetation Index

  • Yaqin Qi,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Zhengchao Chen,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Congju Shen,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Yuanying Peng,
  • Bing Chen,
  • Qiong Wang and
  • Hao Zhang
  • + 1 author

7 January 2025

The spectral vegetation indices derived from remote sensing data provide a detailed spectral analysis for assessing vegetation characteristics. This study investigated the relationship between cotton yield and canopy spectral indices to develop yield...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Science)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,370 Views
14 Pages

8 March 2022

Based on remote sensing data of vegetation coverage, observation data of basic meteorological elements, and support vector machine (SVM) method, this study develops an analysis model of meteorological elements influence on vegetation coverage (MEVC)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Stratosphere-Troposphere-Land-Ocean Interaction on the Atmospheric Environment and Ecosystem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,199 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2026

The Water Cloud Model (WCM) provides a simple and effective framework for quantifying vegetation canopy absorption and scattering components and has been widely applied to active microwave-based soil moisture retrieval on vegetated areas. However, un...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,138 Views
14 Pages

21 February 2023

This work focuses on the dynamics of vegetation stripes in sloped semi-arid environments in the presence of secondary seed dispersal and inertial effects. To this aim, a hyperbolic generalization of the Klausmeier model that encloses the advective do...

(This article belongs to the Section E3: Mathematical Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,538 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2023

The cropping system conversion, from rice to vegetable, showed various influences on the greenhouse gases (GHG) emission with conversion time and fertilizer/irrigation management. In this study, we evaluated the DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC) m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Tillage, Cover Crop and Crop Rotation on Soil)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,577 Views
14 Pages

29 April 2022

Remote sensing fractional vegetation cover (FVC) requires both finer-resolution and high-frequency in climate and ecosystem research. The increasing availability of finer-resolution (≤ 30 m) remote sensing data makes this possible. However, data f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structural Parameters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,084 Views
15 Pages

2 February 2022

River floodplains are among the most dynamic and diverse ecosystems on the planet. They are at risk of degradation due to river regulation and climate change. Environmental water has been delivered to floodplains to maintain environmental health by m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Health Diagnosis Based on Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,684 Views
16 Pages

5 June 2017

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have been widely used in navigation, positioning and timing. Nowadays, the multipath errors may be re-utilized for the remote sensing of geophysical parameters (soil moisture, vegetation and snow depth), i.e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Innovative Microwave Remote Sensing Instrumentation for Land Surface Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,418 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Modelling of Turbulence Kinetic Energy in Open Channel Flows with Mixed-Layer Vegetation

  • Hamidreza Rahimi,
  • Cristina Maria Sena Fael,
  • Cátia Sofia Batista Taborda,
  • Saiyu Yuan,
  • Xiaonan Tang,
  • Prateek Kumar Singh,
  • Emad Fardoost and
  • César Augusto Vaz Santos

11 July 2023

Vegetation plays a vital role in the flow characteristics of natural open channels, such as rivers. Typically, vegetation density is higher in the lower layer and sparser in the upper layer of these channels. In this research, Ansys Fluent and the k&...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,849 Views
19 Pages

Establishment and Application of Biomass Model for Vegetation Condition Assessment After Ecological Restoration—Yixing Quarry Case Study

  • Chaokui Huang,
  • Yueping Wu,
  • Shaohui Yang,
  • Faming Zhang,
  • Xiaokai Li,
  • Huaqing Zhang and
  • Xiaolong Zhang

17 January 2025

Biomass is a vital index used to evaluate the vegetation rebuilding effect of mining slopes after restoration. It is essential to establish models for estimating the biomass and carbon storage of the vegetation community on mining slopes. Therefore,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Solutions for Land Reclamation and Post-mining Land Uses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,091 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2024

Given the persistent occurrence of foodborne illnesses linked to both raw and processed vegetables, understanding microbial behavior in these foods under distribution conditions is crucial. This study aimed to develop predictive growth models for Sal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictive Microbiology: New Trends of Food Safety and Quality in Food Processing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
13,103 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2018

The water cloud model (WCM) is a widely used radar backscatter model applied to SAR images to retrieve soil moisture over vegetated areas. The WCM needs vegetation descriptors to account for the impact of vegetation on SAR backscatter. The commonly u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microwave Indices from Active and Passive Sensors for Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,214 Views
27 Pages

Vegetable Trade Flows and Chain Competitiveness Linkage Analysis Based on Spatial Panel Econometric Modelling and Porter’s Diamond Model

  • Marius Constantin,
  • Mihail-Dumitru Sacală,
  • Mihai Dinu,
  • Maria Piștalu,
  • Simona Roxana Pătărlăgeanu and
  • Irina-Denisa Munteanu

6 February 2022

The vegetable sector plays an important role in ensuring food security. Vegetable trade flows in Romania have become a major concern due to constant trade balance deficits despite the country’s agricultural potential. Taking into account the pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Agricultural Value Chains in a Rapidly Urbanizing World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,769 Views
26 Pages

31 July 2015

We developed a polarimetric coherent electromagnetic scattering model for Poyang Lake wetland vegetation. Realistic canopy structures including curved leaves and the lodging situation of the vegetation were taken into account, and the situation at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,011 Views
20 Pages

(1) Background: This challenge is exacerbated by the aging of the rural population, leading to a scarcity of available manpower. To address this issue, the automation and mechanization of outdoor vegetable cultivation are imperative. Therefore, devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Data Analysis in Agriculture—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
905 Views
14 Pages

18 July 2025

Cadmium (Cd) accumulation by benthic organisms poses a significant threat to aquatic environmental safety. Both vegetation and water velocity in rivers could influence this process, yet their coupled interaction mechanisms remain unclear. This study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Removal of Heavy Metals Contamination to Enhance the Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,565 Views
13 Pages

A Synthetic Angle Normalization Model of Vegetation Canopy Reflectance for Geostationary Satellite Remote Sensing Data

  • Yinghao Lin,
  • Qingjiu Tian,
  • Baojun Qiao,
  • Yu Wu,
  • Xianyu Zuo,
  • Yi Xie and
  • Yang Lian

10 October 2022

High-frequency imaging characteristics allow a geostationary satellite (GSS) to capture the diurnal variation in vegetation canopy reflectance spectra, which is of very important practical significance for monitoring vegetation via remote sensing (RS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Applications of Optical Sensors and Machine Learning in Agricultural Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,471 Views
32 Pages

18 May 2022

A large percentage of the Costa Rican territory is covered with high evergreen forests. In order to compute a 1″ Bare-Earth Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for Costa Rica CRDTM2020, stochastic Vegetation Bias (VB) was reduced from the 1″ NASA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,566 Views
21 Pages

18 May 2022

This study predicts how the Free Surface Level (FSL) variations around finite length vegetation affect flow structure by using a numerical simulation. The volume of fluid (VOF) technique with the Reynolds stress model (RSM) was used for the simulatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Hydraulics, Turbulence and Sediment Transport, 2nd edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,499 Views
22 Pages

Hydrological Modelling and Remote Sensing for Assessing the Impact of Vegetation Cover Changes

  • Ángela M. Moreno-Pájaro,
  • Aldhair Osorio-Gastelbondo,
  • Dalia A. Moreno-Egel,
  • Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández,
  • María A. Narváez-Cuadro,
  • Manuel Saba and
  • Alfonso Arrieta-Pastrana

This study presents a multi-temporal analysis of vegetation cover changes in the Guayepo stream watershed (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) for 2000, 2010, and 2020 and their impact on surface runoff generation. Hydrological data from 1974 to 2019 were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,843 Views
20 Pages

Remote Sensing and Critical Slowing Down Modeling Reveal Vegetation Resilience in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

  • Liangliang Zhang,
  • Nan Yang,
  • Bingkun Zhao,
  • Jun Xie,
  • Xiaofei Sun,
  • Shunlin Liang,
  • Huaiyong Shao and
  • Jinhui Wu

4 July 2025

Globally, ecosystems are affected by climate change, human activities, and natural disasters, which impact ecosystem quality and stability. Vegetation plays a crucial role in ecosystem material cycle and energy transformation, making it important to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Applications to Ecology: Opportunities and Challenges II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,408 Views
16 Pages

30 December 2021

Children’s vegetable intake is too low, and a key barrier to the inadequate intake is low acceptance. To facilitate successful development of new vegetable-based products for children, a sensory science approach to product development has been...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensory and Consumer Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,178 Views
15 Pages

14 May 2019

The aim of the research described was to design permanent vegetable production systems for the Red River Delta in Vietnam. Permanent vegetable production systems better meet the increasing consumer demand for vegetables and may increase farmers&rsquo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agroecology: Principles and Application for Efficient and Sustainable Agricultural Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,432 Views
31 Pages

7 May 2021

Mapping and monitoring of Arctic vegetation biochemical and biophysical properties is gaining importance as global climate change is disproportionately affecting this region. Previous studies using remote sensing to model Arctic vegetation biochemica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,985 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2010

Remotely sensed reflectance spectra may be biased by several intervening factors, and the biases are propagated into estimations of the fraction of vegetation cover (FVC) by algorithms based on a linear mixture model (LMM). The errors propagated in F...

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