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Remote Sensing of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Vegetation Hyperspectral Reflectance and Radiative Transfer Simulation

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This chapter describes a series of laboratory and field measurements of spectral reflectance under artificial and natural light conditions which demonstrate that effects of natural chlorophyll fluorescence are observable in the reflectance red edge spectral region. Leaf samples were used for reflectance and transmittance measurements with integrating sphere apparatus coupled to a fibre spectrometer in which the same leaves were illuminated alternatively with and without fluorescence-exciting radiation. A study of the diurnal change in leaf reflectance spectra, combined with fluorescence measurements with the PAM-2000 Fluorometer showed that the difference spectra are consistent with observed diurnal changes in steady-state fluorescence. Small canopies were used for laboratory measurements with the airborne CASI hyperspectral sensor, and under natural light conditions with a fibre spectrometer in diurnal trials, in which the variation of measured reflectance was shown to be consistent with a fluorescence signature imposed on the leaf reflectance signature. The FRT model is presented which simulates the effects of fluorescence on leaf reflectance.

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  1. Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources (LAWR), Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), Davis, California, USA

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada

    John R. Miller

  3. P&M Technologies, Ontario, Canada

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Zarco-Tejada, P.J., Miller, J.R., Mohammed, G.H. (2002). Remote Sensing of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Vegetation Hyperspectral Reflectance and Radiative Transfer Simulation. In: Muttiah, R.S. (eds) From Laboratory Spectroscopy to Remotely Sensed Spectra of Terrestrial Ecosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1620-8_11

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