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Australia
2023

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82
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33873
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865
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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Ecology, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Analytical Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada's work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Acta Horticulturae
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Precision Agriculture

Among their recent papers are:

  • "High-Throughput Estimation of Crop Traits: A Review of Ground and Aerial Phenotyping Platforms," 2020, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
  • "Detection of Xylella fastidiosa infection symptoms with airborne multispectral and thermal imagery: Assessing bandset reduction performance from hyperspectral analysis," 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • "Divergent abiotic spectral pathways unravel pathogen stress signals across species," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "From remotely sensed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I-Harnessing theory," 2023, Global Change Biology
  • "From remotely-sensed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part II-Harnessing data," 2023, Global Change Biology

Collaborations have been made frequently with coauthors such as:

  • T. Poblete
  • A. Hornero
  • V. González-Dugo
  • C. Camino
  • Juan A Navas-Cortés

The body of work reflects an integration of remote sensing technologies with agriculture and environmental monitoring, addressing plant growth, disease detection, and ecosystem functions through advanced spectroscopic and imaging methods.

Best Publications

  • Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture

    Driss Haboudane;John R. Miller;John R. Miller;Elizabeth Pattey;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada

  • Integrated narrow-band vegetation indices for prediction of crop chlorophyll content for application to precision agriculture

    Driss Haboudane;John R. Miller;John R. Miller;Nicolas Tremblay;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada

  • PROSPECT+SAIL models: A review of use for vegetation characterization

    Stéphane Jacquemoud;Wout Verhoef;Frédéric Baret;Cédric Bacour

  • Thermal and Narrowband Multispectral Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    J. Berni;P.J. Zarco-Tejada;L. Suarez;E. Fereres

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

  • Fluorescence, temperature and narrow-band indices acquired from a UAV platform for water stress detection using a micro-hyperspectral imager and a thermal camera

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;Victoria González-Dugo;José A. J. Berni

  • Scaling-up and model inversion methods with narrowband optical indices for chlorophyll content estimation in closed forest canopies with hyperspectral data

    P.J. Zarco-Tejada;J.R. Miller;T.L. Noland;G.H. Mohammed

  • Assessing vineyard condition with hyperspectral indices: Leaf and canopy reflectance simulation in a row-structured discontinuous canopy

    P.J. Zarco-Tejada;A. Berjón;R. López-Lozano;J.R. Miller

  • Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy

    Susan L. Ustin;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Stéphane Jacquemoud;Michael Schaepman

  • Water content estimation in vegetation with MODIS reflectance data and model inversion methods

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;C. A. Rueda;S. L. Ustin

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress.

    Gina H. Mohammed;Roberto Colombo;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Uwe Rascher

  • Tree height quantification using very high resolution imagery acquired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and automatic 3D photo-reconstruction methods

    P.J. Zarco-Tejada;R. Diaz-Varela;V. Angileri;P. Loudjani

  • Quantitative Remote Sensing at Ultra-High Resolution with UAV Spectroscopy: A Review of Sensor Technology, Measurement Procedures, and Data Correction Workflows

    Helge Aasen;Eija Honkavaara;Arko Lucieer;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada

  • High-resolution airborne hyperspectral and thermal imagery for early detection of Verticillium wilt of olive using fluorescence, temperature and narrow-band spectral indices.

    Rocio Calderón;Juan Navas-Cortés;Carlos Lucena;Pablo Zarco-Tejada

  • Hyperspectral indices and model simulation for chlorophyll estimation in open-canopy tree crops

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;John R. Miller;Arturo Morales;A. Berjón

  • Mapping canopy conductance and CWSI in olive orchards using high resolution thermal remote sensing imagery

    J.A.J. Berni;P.J. Zarco-Tejada;G. Sepulcre-Cantó;E. Fereres;E. Fereres

  • Mapping crop water stress index in a ‘Pinot-noir’ vineyard: comparing ground measurements with thermal remote sensing imagery from an unmanned aerial vehicle

    J. Bellvert;P. J. Zarco-Tejada;J. Girona;E. Fereres;E. Fereres

  • Steady-state chlorophyll a fluorescence detection from canopy derivative reflectance and double-peak red-edge effects

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;J. C. Pushnik;S. Z. Dobrowski;S. L. Ustin

  • Using high resolution UAV thermal imagery to assess the variability in the water status of five fruit tree species within a commercial orchard

    V. Gonzalez-Dugo;P. Zarco-Tejada;E. Nicolás;P. A. Nortes

  • Simple reflectance indices track heat and water stress-induced changes in steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence at the canopy scale

    S. Z. Dobrowski;J. C. Pushnik;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;S. L. Ustin

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Miller
John R. Miller York University
Victoria González-Dugo
Victoria González-Dugo Spanish National Research Council
Elias Fereres
Elias Fereres University of Córdoba
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Francisco J. Villalobos
Francisco J. Villalobos University of Córdoba
José A. Sobrino
José A. Sobrino University of Valencia
Pieter S. A. Beck
Pieter S. A. Beck Woods Hole Research Center
Juan A. Navas-Cortés
Juan A. Navas-Cortés Spanish National Research Council
Peter North
Peter North Swansea University
Diego S. Intrigliolo
Diego S. Intrigliolo Spanish National Research Council

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