A spectral-structural characterization of European temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal forests
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F24%3A00602485" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/24:00602485 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/24:10497469
Result on the web
<a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/5069/2024/" target="_blank" >https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/5069/2024/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-5069-2024" target="_blank" >10.5194/essd-16-5069-2024</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A spectral-structural characterization of European temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal forests
Original language description
Radiative transfer models of vegetation play a crucial role in the development of remote sensing methods by providing a theoretical framework to explain how electromagnetic radiation interacts with vegetation in different spectral regions. A limiting factor in model development has been the lack of sufficiently detailed ground reference data on both the structural and spectral characteristics of forests needed for testing and validating the models. In this data description paper, we present a dataset on the structural and spectral properties of 58 stands in temperate, hemiboreal, and boreal European forests. It is specifically designed for the development and validation of radiative transfer models for forests but can also be utilized in other remote sensing studies. It comprises detailed data on forest structure based on forest inventory measurements, terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, and digital hemispherical photography. Furthermore, the data include spectral properties of the same forests at multiple scales: reflectance spectra of tree leaves and needles (based on laboratory measurements), the forest floor (based on in situ measurements), and entire stands (based on airborne measurements), as well as transmittance spectra of tree leaves and needles and entire tree canopies (based on laboratory and in situ measurements, respectively). We anticipate that these data will have wide use in testing and validating radiative transfer models for forests and in the development of remote sensing methods for vegetation. The data can be accessed at Hovi et al. (2024a, 10.23729/9a8d90cd-73e2-438d-9230-94e10e61adc9) (for laboratory and field data) and Hovi et al. (2024b, 10.23729/c6da63dd-f527-4ec9-8401-57c14f77d19f) (for airborne data).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTAUSA18154" target="_blank" >LTAUSA18154: Assessment of ecosystem function based on Earth observation of vegetation quantitative parameters retrieved from data with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earth System Science Data
ISSN
1866-3508
e-ISSN
1866-3516
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
5069-5087
UT code for WoS article
001347987200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208782769