TY - JOUR
T1 - PROSPECT + SAIL models
T2 - A review of use for vegetation characterization
AU - Jacquemoud, Stéphane
AU - Verhoef, Wout
AU - Baret, Frédéric
AU - Bacour, Cédric
AU - Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J.
AU - Asner, Gregory P.
AU - François, Christophe
AU - Ustin, Susan L.
N1 - Funding Information:
People interested by the models can download them at http://teledetection.ipgp.jussieu.fr/prosail/ or send a request to the authors. We are grateful to the space agencies (CNES, ESA, EU, NASA, NLR) and national remote sensing programs (INSU Programme National de Télédétection Spatiale, NASA Earth Observing System and Terrestrial Ecology programs, and the University of California's CalSpace program) for the funding provided during the last 16 years. IPGP contribution #2325.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - The combined PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and SAIL canopy bidirectional reflectance model, also referred to as PROSAIL, has been used for about sixteen years to study plant canopy spectral and directional reflectance in the solar domain. PROSAIL has also been used to develop new methods for retrieval of vegetation biophysical properties. It links the spectral variation of canopy reflectance, which is mainly related to leaf biochemical contents, with its directional variation, which is primarily related to canopy architecture and soil/vegetation contrast. This link is key to simultaneous estimation of canopy biophysical/structural variables for applications in agriculture, plant physiology, or ecology, at different scales. PROSAIL has become one of the most popular radiative transfer tools due to its ease of use, general robustness, and consistent validation by lab/field/space experiments over the years. However, PROSPECT and SAIL are still evolving: they have undergone recent improvements both at the leaf and the plant levels. This paper provides an extensive review of the PROSAIL developments in the context of canopy biophysics and radiative transfer modeling.
AB - The combined PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and SAIL canopy bidirectional reflectance model, also referred to as PROSAIL, has been used for about sixteen years to study plant canopy spectral and directional reflectance in the solar domain. PROSAIL has also been used to develop new methods for retrieval of vegetation biophysical properties. It links the spectral variation of canopy reflectance, which is mainly related to leaf biochemical contents, with its directional variation, which is primarily related to canopy architecture and soil/vegetation contrast. This link is key to simultaneous estimation of canopy biophysical/structural variables for applications in agriculture, plant physiology, or ecology, at different scales. PROSAIL has become one of the most popular radiative transfer tools due to its ease of use, general robustness, and consistent validation by lab/field/space experiments over the years. However, PROSPECT and SAIL are still evolving: they have undergone recent improvements both at the leaf and the plant levels. This paper provides an extensive review of the PROSAIL developments in the context of canopy biophysics and radiative transfer modeling.
KW - Canopy spectral and directional reflectance
KW - PROSAIL
KW - PROSPECT
KW - Radiative transfer models
KW - SAIL
KW - Vegetation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.026
DO - 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67650232810
SN - 0034-4257
VL - 113
SP - S56-S66
JO - Remote Sensing of Environment
JF - Remote Sensing of Environment
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -