Vegetation Index Focus Area Contributions to International Structures
Building International Structures
It is our aim to build international structures for the validation of this extensively utilized remote sensing variable.
Global Vegetation Index products are routinely used in crop monitoring and forecasting by the UN's FAO and the USDA's FAS to project yield and predict shortages. They also serve as key measurements in productivity, phenology, climate, hydrology, biogeochemical and biodiversity studies. Thus, a coordinated effort on the validation of global VI measurements is warranted, and the LPV VI focus area aims to lead such an effort.
Links to In Situ Networks for VI Validation
- World Meteorological Organization
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- PhenoCam Network
- Phenological Eyes Network (PEN)
- National Phenology Network (NPN)
- Ground-based Observations for Validation (GBOV)
- Fiducial reference measurements for vegetation (FRM4Veg)
- HYPERNETS
- FLUXNET
