Advances in Earth Science ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 365-376. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2016.04.0365.

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Review on Vegetation Phenology Observation and Phenological Index Extraction

Peiyu Cao 1, 2( ), Leiming Zhang 1, *( ), Shenggong Li 1, Junhui Zhang 3   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
    2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049,China
    3.Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016,China
  • Received:2016-01-04 Revised:2016-03-15 Online:2016-04-20 Published:2016-04-10
  • Contact: Leiming Zhang E-mail:caopy.13s@igsnrr.ac.cn;zhanglm@igsnrr.ac.cn
  • About author:

    First author:Cao Peiyu(1991-), male, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, Master student. Research areas include phenology and terrestrial ecosystem productivity.E-mails:caopy.13s@igsnrr.ac.cn

    Corresponding author:Zhang Leiming(1974-), male, Kaifeng City, He’nan Province, Associate Professor. Research areas include carbon, nitrogen and water cycle of terrestrial ecosystem and global change.E-mails:zhanglm@igsnrr.ac.cn

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Regulation of vegetation canopy on ecosystem carbon exchange of temperate and subtropical mature forests in China”(No.31570446);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Status, rate, mechanism and potential of ecosystem carbon sequestration by forest in China”(No.XDA05050208)

Peiyu Cao, Leiming Zhang, Shenggong Li, Junhui Zhang. Review on Vegetation Phenology Observation and Phenological Index Extraction[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2016, 31(4): 365-376.

Vegetation phenology directly reflects the response of ecosystem physiological and ecological processes to environmental changes and has received increasing attention in climate change, which leads to the development of various phenology monitoring techniques and methods of extracting the phenological index. Based on relevant literatures, the monitoring techniques of vegetation phenology were reviewed. Second, the methods of extracting phenological index using different techniques were introduced systematically. Thirdly, the differences from multi-source data and from multi-methods were evaluated based on ground phenology record, flux observation and vegetation index. Although various methods have been adopted in current vegetation phenological studies, it should be aware of their appropriately spatiotemporal scales for different methods, and the mutual complementation will help to improve the system for phenology monitoring. Meanwhile, the comparison indicated the obvious differences in derived vegetation phenological index using various observation techniques and extraction methods, especially for the autumn vegetation phenological index. Such results highlight the importance to assess reasonably these differences from multi-source data and from multi-methods, and to establish a rational processing system for the mutual comparison and conversion from different methods.

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