Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests

Pisek, Jan; Erb, Angela; Korhonen, Lauri; Biermann, Tobias; Carrara, Arnaud; Cremonese, Edoardo; Cuntz, Matthias; Fares, Silvano; Gerosa, Giacomo; Grünwald, Thomas; Hase, Niklas; Heliasz, Michal; Ibrom, Andreas; Knohl, Alexander; Kobler, Johannes; Kruijt, Bart; Lange, Holger; Leppänen, Leena; Limousin, Jean-Marc; Serrano, Francisco Ramon Lopez; Loustau, Denis; Lukeš, Petr; Lundin, Lars; Marzuoli, Riccardo; Mölder, Meelis; Montagnani, Leonardo; Neirynck, Johan; Peichl, Matthias; Rebmann, Corinna; Rubio, Eva; Santos-Reis, Margarida; Schaaf, Crystal; Schmidt, Marius; Simioni, Guillaume; Soudani, Kamel; Vincke, Caroline

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-621-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Biogeosciences, 18, 621–635, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-621-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Biogeosciences, 18, 621–635, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-621-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Research article 27 Jan 2021

Research article | 27 Jan 2021

Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests

Jan Pisek et al.

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RC1: 'Review for Pisek et al. manuscript', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Dec 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Jan Pisek, 08 Jan 2021
RC2: 'review 2', Alexei Lyapustin, 02 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Jan Pisek, 08 Jan 2021

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Jan 2021) by Paul Stoy

AR by Jan Pisek on behalf of the Authors (12 Jan 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Jan 2021) by Paul Stoy

Short summary

Understory vegetation is the most diverse, least understood component of forests worldwide. Understory communities are important drivers of overstory succession and nutrient cycling. Multi-angle remote sensing enables us to describe surface properties by means that are not possible when using mono-angle data. Evaluated over an extensive set of forest ecosystem experimental sites in Europe, our reported method can deliver good retrievals, especially over different forest types with open canopies.