Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits

Plants’ functional traits reflect their ecological strategies, responses to environmental factors, and shape ecosystem properties. The variation in functional traits is important for addressing ecological questions across multiple scales, demanding standardized techniques across space and time. This...

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description Plants’ functional traits reflect their ecological strategies, responses to environmental factors, and shape ecosystem properties. The variation in functional traits is important for addressing ecological questions across multiple scales, demanding standardized techniques across space and time. This research domain has proven highly productive for comprehending ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes related to the functional characteristics of plants. Consequently, precise and timely acquisition of plant traits improves our understanding of the impact of environmental changes and disturbances on plants. Remote sensing coupled with advanced models has the capacity to monitor vegetation functioning through traits across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Spectral signals from remote sensing instruments enable the retrieval of species traits, including pigments, species composition, ecosystem structure and function. Plant traits can be retrieved from remote sensing through radiative transfer model inversion, machine learning, and deep learning techniques. As remote sensing data become more accessible through UAVs and freely available satellite data, machine and deep learning have emerged as compelling methods for enhancing the extraction of plant traits from airborne and spaceborne sensors. This Special Issue presents innovative contributions from authors from around the world that examine the application of both active and passive remote sensing sensors in the retrieval of key vegetation and landscape metrics that reflect ecosystem structure and function.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1754072026-04-16T20:44:58Z Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits Gara, Tawanda W. Shoko, Cletah Dube, Timothy Remote sensing Plant Health Plant Traits Biodiversity Vegetation Function thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general Plants’ functional traits reflect their ecological strategies, responses to environmental factors, and shape ecosystem properties. The variation in functional traits is important for addressing ecological questions across multiple scales, demanding standardized techniques across space and time. This research domain has proven highly productive for comprehending ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes related to the functional characteristics of plants. Consequently, precise and timely acquisition of plant traits improves our understanding of the impact of environmental changes and disturbances on plants. Remote sensing coupled with advanced models has the capacity to monitor vegetation functioning through traits across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Spectral signals from remote sensing instruments enable the retrieval of species traits, including pigments, species composition, ecosystem structure and function. Plant traits can be retrieved from remote sensing through radiative transfer model inversion, machine learning, and deep learning techniques. As remote sensing data become more accessible through UAVs and freely available satellite data, machine and deep learning have emerged as compelling methods for enhancing the extraction of plant traits from airborne and spaceborne sensors. This Special Issue presents innovative contributions from authors from around the world that examine the application of both active and passive remote sensing sensors in the retrieval of key vegetation and landscape metrics that reflect ecosystem structure and function. 2026-04-16T20:44:49Z 2026-04-16T20:44:49Z 2026 book ONIX_20260416T142754_9783725864645_12 9783725864645 9783725864652 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175407 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/ https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/12325 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6465-2 10.3390/books978-3-7258-6465-2 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725864645 9783725864652 180 CH open access
spellingShingle Remote sensing
Plant Health
Plant Traits
Biodiversity
Vegetation Function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title_full Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title_fullStr Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title_full_unstemmed Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title_short Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits
title_sort remote sensing of vegetation function and traits
topic Remote sensing
Plant Health
Plant Traits
Biodiversity
Vegetation Function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
topic_facet Remote sensing
Plant Health
Plant Traits
Biodiversity
Vegetation Function
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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