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Overview

Aleixandre Verger is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across various subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics related to environmental and remote sensing sciences. Key research areas include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Verger has published extensively in several journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Their recent papers reflect a focus on vegetation indices, fire activity, and phenology. Notable publications include:

  • "Quality Assessment of PROBA-V LAI, fAPAR and fCOVER Collection 300 m Products of Copernicus Global Land Service," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures," 2022, Science
  • "Divergent Estimates of Forest Photosynthetic Phenology Using Structural and Physiological Vegetation Indices," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Evaluation and Normalization of Topographic Effects on Vegetation Indices," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "A Broadband Green-Red Vegetation Index for Monitoring Gross Primary Production Phenology," 2022, Journal of Remote Sensing

Aleixandre Verger frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Common coauthors include:

  • Gaofei Yin
  • Adrià Descals
  • Josep Peñuelas
  • Iolanda Filella
  • Qiaoyun Xie

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Martin Brandt;Yi Y. Liu;Aleixandre Verger

  • Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands.

    Martin Brandt;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jérôme Chave;Torbern Tagesson

  • Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa

    Martin Brandt;Kjeld Rasmussen;Josep Peñuelas;Feng Tian

  • Satellite-observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

    Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Jean Pierre Wigneron;Xiaowei Tong

  • A comparison of methods for smoothing and gap filling time series of remote sensing observations - application to MODIS LAI products

    Sivasathivel Kandasamy;Frédéric Baret;Aleixandre Verger;Aleixandre Verger;Philippe Neveux

  • Green area index from an unmanned aerial system over wheat and rapeseed crops

    Aleixandre Verger;Nathalie Vigneau;Corentin Chéron;Jean-Marc Gilliot;Jean-Marc Gilliot

  • Optimal modalities for radiative transfer-neural network estimation of canopy biophysical characteristics: Evaluation over an agricultural area with CHRIS/PROBA observations

    Aleixandre Verger;Aleixandre Verger;Frédéric Baret;Fernando Camacho

  • Near Real-Time Vegetation Monitoring at Global Scale

    Aleixandre Verger;Frédéric Baret;Marie Weiss

  • Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Iolanda Filella;Marc Estiarte

  • Quality Assessment of PROBA-V LAI, fAPAR and fCOVER Collection 300 m Products of Copernicus Global Land Service

    Beatriz Fuster;Jorge Sánchez-Zapero;Fernando Camacho;Vicente García-Santos

  • Ground- and satellite-based evidence of the biophysical mechanisms behind the greening Sahel

    Martin Brandt;Cheikh Mbow;Abdoul Aziz Diouf;Aleixandre Verger

  • Vegetation baseline phenology from kilometric global LAI satellite products

    Aleixandre Verger;Aleixandre Verger;Iolanda Filella;Frédéric Baret;Josep Peñuelas

  • Assessment of the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems based on data from field experiments and long-term monitored field gradients in Catalonia

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Iolanda Filella;Marc Estiarte

  • Woody plant cover estimation in drylands from Earth Observation based seasonal metrics

    Martin Brandt;Pierre Hiernaux;Torbern Tagesson;Aleixandre Verger

  • A multisensor fusion approach to improve LAI time series

    Aleixandre Verger;Aleixandre Verger;Frédéric Baret;Marie Weiss

  • Performances of neural networks for deriving LAI estimates from existing CYCLOPES and MODIS products

    A. Verger;F. Baret;M. Weiss

  • The CACAO Method for Smoothing, Gap Filling, and Characterizing Seasonal Anomalies in Satellite Time Series

    A. Verger;F. Baret;M. Weiss;S. Kandasamy

  • Atmospheric deposition, CO2, and change in the land carbon sink

    M. Fernández-Martínez;S. Vicca;I.A. Janssens;P. Ciais

  • Remotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production

    Sara Vicca;Manuela Balzarolo;Iolanda Filella;André Granier

  • Land surface phenology from VEGETATION and PROBA-V data. Assessment over deciduous forests

    Kevin Bórnez;Adrià Descals;Aleixandre Verger;Josep Peñuelas

  • Fodder Biomass Monitoring in Sahelian Rangelands Using Phenological Metrics from FAPAR Time Series

    Abdoul Aziz Diouf;Martin Brandt;Aleixandre Verger;Moussa El Jarroudi

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Baret
Frédéric Baret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Marie Weiss
Marie Weiss INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Iolanda Filella
Iolanda Filella Autonomous University of Barcelona
Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center
Cheikh Mbow
Cheikh Mbow Centre de Suivi Ecologique
Kjeld Rasmussen
Kjeld Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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