Estimating leaf photosynthetic pigments information by stepwise multiple linear regression analysis and a leaf optical model

Pudong Liu; Runhe Shi; Hong Wang; Kaixu Bai; Wei Gao

doi:10.1117/12.2060530

8 October 2014 Estimating leaf photosynthetic pigments information by stepwise multiple linear regression analysis and a leaf optical model

Pudong Liu, Runhe Shi, Hong Wang, Kaixu Bai, Wei Gao

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Proceedings Volume 9221, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XI; 92211A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060530
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Leaf pigments are key elements for plant photosynthesis and growth. Traditional manual sampling of these pigments is labor-intensive and costly, which also has the difficulty in capturing their temporal and spatial characteristics. The aim of this work is to estimate photosynthetic pigments at large scale by remote sensing. For this purpose, inverse model were proposed with the aid of stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) analysis. Furthermore, a leaf radiative transfer model (i.e. PROSPECT model) was employed to simulate the leaf reflectance where wavelength varies from 400 to 780 nm at 1 nm interval, and then these values were treated as the data from remote sensing observations. Meanwhile, simulated chlorophyll concentration (C_ab), carotenoid concentration (C_ar) and their ratio (C_ab/C_ar) were taken as target to build the regression model respectively. In this study, a total of 4000 samples were simulated via PROSPECT with different C_ab, C_ar and leaf mesophyll structures as 70% of these samples were applied for training while the last 30% for model validation. Reflectance (r) and its mathematic transformations (1/r and log (1/r)) were all employed to build regression model respectively. Results showed fair agreements between pigments and simulated reflectance with all adjusted coefficients of determination (R²) larger than 0.8 as 6 wavebands were selected to build the SMLR model. The largest value of R² for Cab, Car and Cab/Car are 0.8845, 0.876 and 0.8765, respectively. Meanwhile, mathematic transformations of reflectance showed little influence on regression accuracy. We concluded that it was feasible to estimate the chlorophyll and carotenoids and their ratio based on statistical model with leaf reflectance data.

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Pudong Liu, Runhe Shi, Hong Wang, Kaixu Bai, and Wei Gao "Estimating leaf photosynthetic pigments information by stepwise multiple linear regression analysis and a leaf optical model", Proc. SPIE 9221, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XI, 92211A (8 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060530

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