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12 September 2023 HyperBlend leaf simulator: improvements on simulation speed, generalizability, and parameterization
Kimmo A. Riihiaho, Leevi Lind, Ilkka Pölönen
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Abstract

In recent decades, remote sensing of vegetation by hyperspectral imaging has been of great interest. An important part in interpreting the remotely sensed spectral data is played by simulators, which approximate the connection between plants’ biophysical and biochemical properties and detected spectral response. We introduce improvements and new features to recently published hyperspectral leaf model HyperBlend. We present two methods for increasing simulation speed of the model up to 200 times faster with slight decrease in simulation accuracy. We integrate the well-known PROSPECT leaf model into HyperBlend allowing us to use the PROSPECT parametrization for leaf simulation. For the first time, we show that HyperBlend generalizes well and can be used to accurately simulate a wide variety of plant leaf spectra. HyperBlend is available as an open-source Python project under MIT license in a GitHub repository available at: https://github.com/silmae/hyperblend.

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Kimmo A. Riihiaho, Leevi Lind, and Ilkka Pölönen "HyperBlend leaf simulator: improvements on simulation speed, generalizability, and parameterization," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 17(3), 038505 (12 September 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.17.038505
Received: 26 November 2022; Accepted: 23 August 2023; Published: 12 September 2023
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KEYWORDS
Education and training

Reflectivity

Transmittance

Hyperspectral imaging

Scattering

Error analysis

Statistical modeling

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