Monitoring of vegetation on global scale via passive remote sensing: the overview

This is a paper written by a PhD candidate, Valeriy Kovalskyy, from the South Dakota State University, GIS Center of Excellence. Valeriy Kovalskyy is an international student from Ukraine.

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Introduction:
Passive space-borne remote sensing of vegetation properties is purposed to capture canopy dynamics at the rate limited by overpass frequencies and various other factors. Captured radiometric signals are transmitted to the ground stations and processed into inputs for geophysical models of net primary productivity (NPP – main characteristic of vegetation biomass growth - Field et al 1998) and radiative (light) transfer in the canopy. Read the full document below.

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