Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening?

Accurately monitoring global vegetation dynamics with modern remote sensing is critical for understanding the functions and processes of the biosphere and its interactions with the planetary climate. The MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) vegetation index (VI) product has been a p...

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Published in:Remote sensing of environment 2017-03, Vol.191, p.145-155
Main Authors: Zhang, Yulong, Song, Conghe, Band, Lawrence E., Sun, Ge, Li, Junxiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aqua
Browning
Collection 5 & 6
Greening
MODIS
Terra
Vegetation indices
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Summary:Accurately monitoring global vegetation dynamics with modern remote sensing is critical for understanding the functions and processes of the biosphere and its interactions with the planetary climate. The MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) vegetation index (VI) product has been a primary data source for this purpose. To date, the MODIS team had released several versions of VI products that have widely used in global change studies and practical applications. In this study, we re-examined the global vegetation activity by comparing the recent MODIS Collection 6 (C6) VIs with Collection 5 (C5) VIs including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) from Terra (2001–2015) and Aqua Satellites (2003–2015). We found substantial differences in global vegetation trends betweenTerra-C5 and -C6 VIs, especially EVI. From 2001 to 2015, global vegetation showed a remarkable greening trend in annual EVI from the Terra-C6 (0.28% year−1; P
ISSN:0034-4257
1879-0704
DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.018