ReviewThe New phytologist2025
Proximal remote sensing: an essential tool for bridging the gap between high-resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- A role for vegetation phenology in shaping patterns of ecosystem sensitivity to drought.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Colored Leaves ofACS omega · 2026Article
- Adaptation and Response in Drylands: A Dryland Research Agenda and Campaign Strategy.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Unraveling plant phenotype to genotype associations with daily hyperspectral traits inPlant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Coexistence mechanisms for herbaceous plants in arid ecosystems.Journal of plant research · 2026Article
- Flux Footprints: A Critical Link to Bridge Eddy-Covariance Measurements With Models, Remote Sensing, and Other Observations.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Integration of crop modeling and sensing into molecular breeding for nutritional quality and stress tolerance.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025Review
- Airborne imaging spectroscopy surveys of Arctic and boreal Alaska and northwestern Canada 2017-2023.Scientific data · 2025Article
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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 reflectance, solar-induced fluorescence, thermal infrared radiation, microwave backscatter, and LiDAR. Our paper outlines the steps necessary for making these data streams more widespread, accessible, interoperable, and information-rich, enabling us to address key ecological questions unanswerable from space-based observations alone and, ultimately, to demonstrate the feasibility of these technologies to address critical questions in local and global ecology.
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