Proximal remote sensing: an essential tool for bridging the gap between high-resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology.

ABSTRACT: A new proliferation of optical instruments that can be attached to towers over or within ecosystems, or 'proximal' remote sensing, enables a comprehensive characterization of terrestrial ecosystem structure, function, and fluxes of energy, water, and carbon. Proximal remote sensing can bridge the gap between individual plants, site-level eddy-covariance fluxes, and airborne and spaceborne remote sensing by providing continuous data at a high-spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we review recent advances in proximal remote sensing for improving our mechanistic understanding of plant and ecosystem processes, model development, and validation of current and upcoming satellite missions. We provide current best practices for data availability and metadata for proximal remote sensing: spectral refle

SUBMITTER: Pierrat ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11923411 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature