Comparison between the SMOS l2 vegetation optical depth product over low vegetation and vegetation indices and leaf area index during 2010-2011

The low-frequency observations of SMOS enables the L-VOD product to be less sensitive to saturation effects at relatively high biomass levels, and to be sensitive to variations of

By contrast, grasslands are greening at a moderate average rate, but since they cover almost half of the total vegetated area, the grassland area affected by high trend values

However, even though most in-situ SSM points show a high consistency between the SSM measured on plots with vegetation cover and the average SSM calculated using all the

The CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) has developed the CATDS (Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS) ground segment that now provides spatial and temporal

Among the different indices derived from Earth observation satellites to study the vegetation, the vegetation optical depth (VOD), which is related to the intensity of

(e–h) Comparison between the measured and predicted four heavy metal contents in leaves obtained with the optimized vegetation indices at leaf, canopy and image levels (n = 14 at

[ 9 ] The objectives of this article are (1) to investigate the theoretical bases of the LAI – s NDVI relationship using Weibull modeled LAI distribution fitted on real LAI

[ 1 ] We report the results of a joint analysis of NDVI data derived from NOAA-AVHRR and snow parameters (snow depth and snowmelt timing) derived from satellite passive