Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| DOI | 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729060 |
| Title (Primary) | Very high spectral resolution imaging spectroscopy: The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission |
| Title (Secondary) | 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China, 10-15 July 2016 |
| Author | Moreno, J.F.; Goulas, Y.; Huth, A.; Middleton, E.; Miglietta, F.; Mohammed, G.; Nedbal, L.; Rascher, U.; Verhoef, W.; Drusch, M. |
| Source Titel | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
| Year | 2016 |
| Department | OESA |
| Page From | 264 |
| Page To | 267 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | ecology; geophysical image processing; image resolution; vegetation mapping; Copernicus Sentinel-3; Earth Explorer; European Space Agency; FLORIS spectrometer; Fluorescence Explorer mission; agricultural production; ecosystem dynamics; fluorescence spatial dynamics;food security; global mapping; photosynthesis; reflected radiance; space vegetation fluorescence emission; spectral resolution; temporal dynamics; vegetation carbon assimilation; vegetation stress conditions; very high spectral resolution imaging spectroscopy; Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Flexible printed circuits; Fluorescence; Imaging; Instruments; Vegetation mapping; FLEX Earth Explorer; fluorescence; imaging spectroscopy; photosynthesis; vegetation |
| UFZ wide themes | RU5; |
| Abstract | The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission has been recently selected as the 8th Earth Explorer by the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be the first mission specifically designed to measure from space vegetation fluorescence emission, by making use of very high spectral resolution imaging spectroscopy techniques. Vegetation fluorescence is the best proxy to actual vegetation photosynthesis which can be measurable from space, allowing an improved quantification of vegetation carbon assimilation and vegetation stress conditions, thus having key relevance for global mapping of ecosystems dynamics and aspects related with agricultural production and food security. The FLEX mission carries the FLORIS spectrometer, with a spectral resolution in the range of 0.3 nm, and is designed to fly in tandem with Copernicus Sentinel-3, in order to provide all the necessary spectral / angular information to disentangle emitted fluorescence from reflected radiance, and to allow proper interpretation of the observed fluorescence spatial and temporal dynamics. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=18872 |
| Moreno, J.F., Goulas, Y., Huth, A., Middleton, E., Miglietta, F., Mohammed, G., Nedbal, L., Rascher, U., Verhoef, W., Drusch, M. (2016): Very high spectral resolution imaging spectroscopy: The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China, 10-15 July 2016 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 264 - 267 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729060 |
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