PROSPECT+SAIL: 15 Years of Use for Land Surface Characterization

S. Jacquemoud, W. Verhoef, F. Baret, P. Zarco-Tejada, G. Asner, C. Francois, S. Ustin

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Abstract

The combined PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and SAIL canopy bidirectional reflectance model, i.e. PROSAIL, has been used for about fifteen years to increase our understanding of plant canopy spectral and bidirectional reflectance in the solar domain and to develop new methods of vegetation biophysical properties retrieval. It links the spectral variation of canopy reflectance with its directional variation. This link is the key to simultaneously estimate biophysical/structural canopy variables for applications in agriculture, plant physiology, and forestry at different scales. PROSPECT and SAIL are still evolving: they have undergone recent improvements both at the leaf and the plant levels and became one of the most popular radiative transfer tools in these domains due to their ease of use, their robustness, and because they have been validated by many lab/field/space experiments over the years. This paper is intended to review this subject, which has been extensively researched in optical remote sensing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings IEEE International Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote 2006
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)0-7803-9510-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventIEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IGARSS 2006 - Denver, United States
Duration: 31 Jul 20064 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS)
PublisherIEEE
Volume2006
ISSN (Print)2153-6996
ISSN (Electronic)2153-7003

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IGARSS 2006
Abbreviated titleIGARSS
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period31/07/064/08/06

Keywords

  • ADLIB-ART-1363
  • WRS

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