Derivation of canopy light absorption coefficient from reflectance spectra

The light absorption coefficient of vegetation is related to the content and composition of pigments in the plant canopy. It is a useful metric for understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of the absorbed solar radiation, photosynthetic capacity, and productivity of vegetation. Still, its estimation in vivo is challenging due to the large variability induced by numerous features: canopy-related factors, including biochemical and structural characteristics, and factors external to the canopy such as soil background, solar irradiation, and sun-target-sensor geometry conditions. Here we revisit a semi-analytical modeling framework for deriving the light absorption coefficient of plant canopies from reflectance data. The proposed approach is based on the partition of the total light absorption coefficient into photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic pigment components in the canopy, and canopy backscattering. The model-derived absorption coefficient of chlorophyll was compared with field matchups of total canopy chlorophyll content in three crops with contrasting leaf structures, canopy architectures and photosynthetic pathways: maize, soybean, and rice. The model allows for the derivation of absorption coefficient spectra across the photosynthetically active radiation and the red edge spectral regions, as well as accurate estimations of canopy chlorophyll content, both of which are necessary for analyzing the physiological and phenological status, and the canopy-level photosynthetic capacity, of plants. © 2019 Elsevier Inc.

Authors
Gitelson A.1, 2 , Viña A.3, 4 , Solovchenko A. 5, 6, 7 , Arkebauer T.8 , Inoue Y.9, 10
Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
Language
English
Status
Published
Number
111276
Volume
231
Year
2019
Organizations
  • 1 School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, United States
  • 2 Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, 3200003, Israel
  • 3 Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI 48823, United States
  • 4 Geography Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
  • 5 Departament of Bioengineering, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 6 Michurin Federal Scientific Centre, Michurinsk, Russian Federation
  • 7 Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 8 Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, United States
  • 9 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
  • 10 Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO (NIAES), Tsukuba, 305-8604, Japan
Keywords
Absorption and scattering coefficients; Pigment content; Plant canopy
Date of creation
19.07.2019
Date of change
19.07.2019
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/38535/
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