@inproceedings{31d06b63d8094abd9db6ea075f42e909,
title = "Quantitative global mapping of terrestrial vegetation photosynthesis: The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission",
abstract = "Although traditional remote sensing systems based on spectral reflectance can already provide estimates of the 'potential' photosynthetic activity of terrestrial vegetation through the quantification of total canopy chlorophyll content or absorbed photosynthetic radiation, the determination of the 'actual' photosynthetic activity of terrestrial vegetation requires information about how the absorbed light is used by plants, such as vegetation fluorescence, using very high spectral resolution spectroscopy in the range 650-800 nm. The Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission, selected in November 2015 as the 8th Earth Explorer by the European Space Agency (ESA), carries the FLORIS spectrometer, with a spectral resolution of 0.3 nm and a spatial resolution of 300 m, with a swath of 150 km. The FLEX mission is designed to fly in tandem with the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite, in order to provide all the necessary information to disentangle emitted fluorescence from the background reflected radiance, and to allow proper interpretation of the fluorescence spatial and temporal changes in relation to photosynthesis dynamics, accounting for non-photochemical energy dissipation and canopy temperature effects.",
keywords = "fluorescence, imaging spectrocopy, vegetation, photosyntesis, FLEX earth explorer",
author = "Jose Moreno and Roberto Colombo and Alexander Damm and Yves Goulas and Elizabeth Middleton and Franco Miglietta and Gina Mohammed and Matti M{\~o}ttus and Peter North and Uwe Rascher and {van der Tol}, Christiaan and Matthias Drusch",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8126987",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-5090-4952-3",
series = "IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers",
pages = "435--438",
booktitle = "2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
address = "United States",
note = "37th Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2017, IGARSS ; Conference date: 23-07-2017 Through 28-07-2017",
}