Is satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence more indicative than vegetation indices under drought condition?
Abstract
Droughts represent one of the most severe abiotic stress factors that could result in great crop yield loss. Numerous vegetation indices have been proposed for monitoring the vegetation condition under stress and assessing drought impacts on yield loss. However, the understanding and comparison between traditional vegetation indices (VIs) and the newly emerging satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) for monitoring vegetation condition is still limited especially under drought stress and at multiple spatial scales. In this study, the potential of satellite observation SIF for monitoring corn response to drought was investigated based on the 2012 drought in the US Corn Belt. The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was used here to quantify drought. We found that all SPEI were above –1, except for July (–1.27), August (–1.39) and September (–1.14) in 2012, indicating the severity of this drought. We examined the relationship between satellite measurements of SIF, SIFyield, VIs (e.g., NDVI and EVI) and SPEI. Results indicated that SIFyield was sensitive to drought and SIF captured the stress more accurately both at the regional and state scales for the US Corn Belt. Quantitatively, SIFyield had a high correlation with SPEI (r = 0.987, p < 0.05) over the entire Corn Belt,more »
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China); Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing (China). Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States); Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation of Hubei Province, Wuhan (China)
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China); Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis and Simulation of Hubei Province, Wuhan (China)
- China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (CUG), (China)
- Beijing Normal University, Beijing (China)
- Qingdao Agricultural University (China)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). AmeriFlux
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1981749
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 41801339; 41701111
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science of the Total Environment
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 792; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0048-9697
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Environmental Sciences; Ecology; Drought; Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence; Vegetation indices; Gross primary production; US Corn Belt
Citation Formats
Cao, Junjun, An, Qi, Zhang, Xiang, Xu, Shan, Si, Tong, and Niyogi, Dev. Is satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence more indicative than vegetation indices under drought condition?. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148396.
Cao, Junjun, An, Qi, Zhang, Xiang, Xu, Shan, Si, Tong, & Niyogi, Dev. Is satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence more indicative than vegetation indices under drought condition?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148396
Cao, Junjun, An, Qi, Zhang, Xiang, Xu, Shan, Si, Tong, and Niyogi, Dev. Wed .
"Is satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence more indicative than vegetation indices under drought condition?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148396. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1981749.
@article{osti_1981749,
title = {Is satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence more indicative than vegetation indices under drought condition?},
author = {Cao, Junjun and An, Qi and Zhang, Xiang and Xu, Shan and Si, Tong and Niyogi, Dev},
abstractNote = {Droughts represent one of the most severe abiotic stress factors that could result in great crop yield loss. Numerous vegetation indices have been proposed for monitoring the vegetation condition under stress and assessing drought impacts on yield loss. However, the understanding and comparison between traditional vegetation indices (VIs) and the newly emerging satellite Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) for monitoring vegetation condition is still limited especially under drought stress and at multiple spatial scales. In this study, the potential of satellite observation SIF for monitoring corn response to drought was investigated based on the 2012 drought in the US Corn Belt. The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was used here to quantify drought. We found that all SPEI were above –1, except for July (–1.27), August (–1.39) and September (–1.14) in 2012, indicating the severity of this drought. We examined the relationship between satellite measurements of SIF, SIFyield, VIs (e.g., NDVI and EVI) and SPEI. Results indicated that SIFyield was sensitive to drought and SIF captured the stress more accurately both at the regional and state scales for the US Corn Belt. Quantitatively, SIFyield had a high correlation with SPEI (r = 0.987, p < 0.05) over the entire Corn Belt, and it indicated losses in response to drought approximately one month earlier than SIF/NDVI/EVI. Furthermore, our results demonstrated that SIF could be trusted as an effective indicator to study the relationship between GPP (R2 ≥ 0.8664, p < 0.01) under drought conditions across the Corn Belt. Finally, this study highlighted the advantage of using satellite SIF observations to monitor the drought stress on crop growth especially GPP at regional scale.},
doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148396},
journal = {Science of the Total Environment},
number = C,
volume = 792,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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