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Leaf pigment retrieval using the PROSAIL model : Influence of uncertainty in prior canopy-structure information

Sun, Jia LU orcid ; Wang, Lunche ; Shi, Shuo ; Li, Zhenhai ; Yang, Jian ; Gong, Wei ; Wang, Shaoqiang and Tagesson, Torbern LU (2022) In Crop Journal 10(5). p.1251-1263
Abstract

Leaf pigments are critical indicators of plant photosynthesis, stress, and physiological conditions. Inversion of radiative transfer models (RTMs) is a promising method for robustly retrieving leaf biochemical traits from canopy observations, and adding prior information has been effective in alleviating the “ill-posed” problem, a major challenge in model inversion. Canopy structure parameters, such as leaf area index (LAI) and average leaf inclination angle (ALA), can serve as prior information for leaf pigment retrieval. Using canopy spectra simulated from the PROSAIL model, we estimated the effects of uncertainty in LAI and ALA used as prior information for lookup table-based inversions of leaf chlorophyll (Cab) and... (More)

Leaf pigments are critical indicators of plant photosynthesis, stress, and physiological conditions. Inversion of radiative transfer models (RTMs) is a promising method for robustly retrieving leaf biochemical traits from canopy observations, and adding prior information has been effective in alleviating the “ill-posed” problem, a major challenge in model inversion. Canopy structure parameters, such as leaf area index (LAI) and average leaf inclination angle (ALA), can serve as prior information for leaf pigment retrieval. Using canopy spectra simulated from the PROSAIL model, we estimated the effects of uncertainty in LAI and ALA used as prior information for lookup table-based inversions of leaf chlorophyll (Cab) and carotenoid (Car). The retrieval accuracies of the two pigments were increased by use of the priors of LAI (RMSE of Cab from 7.67 to 6.32 μg cm−2, Car from 2.41 to 2.28 μg cm−2) and ALA (RMSE of Cab from 7.67 to 5.72 μg cm−2, Car from 2.41 to 2.23 μg cm−2). However, this improvement deteriorated with an increase of additive and multiplicative uncertainties, and when 40% and 20% noise was added to LAI and ALA respectively, these priors ceased to increase retrieval accuracy. Validation using an experimental winter wheat dataset also showed that compared with Car, the estimation accuracy of Cab increased more or deteriorated less with uncertainty in prior canopy structure. This study demonstrates possible limitations of using prior information in RTM inversions for retrieval of leaf biochemistry, when large uncertainties are present.

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Canopy structure, Chlorophyll content, Leaf angle distribution, Leaf area index, Leaf pigment, PROSAIL model
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Crop Journal
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10
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5
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13 pages
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Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS)
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2095-5421
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10.1016/j.cj.2022.04.003
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English
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  author       = {{Sun, Jia and Wang, Lunche and Shi, Shuo and Li, Zhenhai and Yang, Jian and Gong, Wei and Wang, Shaoqiang and Tagesson, Torbern}},
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  keywords     = {{Canopy structure; Chlorophyll content; Leaf angle distribution; Leaf area index; Leaf pigment; PROSAIL model}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{5}},
  pages        = {{1251--1263}},
  publisher    = {{Institute of Crop Sciences (ICS)}},
  series       = {{Crop Journal}},
  title        = {{Leaf pigment retrieval using the PROSAIL model : Influence of uncertainty in prior canopy-structure information}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cj.2022.04.003}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.cj.2022.04.003}},
  volume       = {{10}},
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