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AfriVeg SIGNED

Assessment of African Vegetation Resources: New Perspectives from Satellite Passive Microwave Datasets

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Project "AfriVeg" data sheet

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Coordinator	LUNDS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c city: LUND postcode: 22100 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Sweden [SE]
Total cost	185˙857 €
EC max contribution	185˙857 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-01-01 to 2019-12-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	LUNDS UNIVERSITET LUNDS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c city: LUND postcode: 22100 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	SE (LUND)	coordinator	185˙857.00

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Project objective

Livelihoods of most of the African population strongly depend on local ecosystem services, such as grazing, agriculture, firewood, and construction timber. Although an overall greening trend is shown by both dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) and Earth Observation (EO), large uncertainties for each data source are reported and significant divergence between outputs have been documented, impeding accurate assessment of vegetation dynamics in Africa. The overall purpose of this project is to develop methods to for an improved assessment of African vegetation resources based on new capabilities originating from satellite passive microwave observations. Specifically, the vegetation optical depth (VOD) derived from passive microwave data is sensitive to the water content in both the green and woody (i.e., branches and stems) vegetation components which is different from the traditional optical-infrared greenness driven vegetation index (VI) being primarily sensitive to chlorophyll abundance. By combining multi-frequency VOD retrievals with long-term VI datasets, in situ measurements, and DGVMs, this project will accurately quantify woody biomass, green biomass, net primary production (NPP), vegetation phenology and ecosystem functional types (EFT) in Africa, as well as their long-term changes and the climate and socio-economic drivers. The results are expected to pave the road for improved vegetation resource management in Africa and understanding of global carbon cycling. To achieve this, I will be trained in cutting edge skills (EO time series, flux measurements and ecosystem modeling). My major mobility activity will be sparking the integration of passive microwave VOD, carbon and water flux measurements and DGVMs for an improved understanding of changes in vegetation resources and drivers hereof in Africa.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Feng Tian, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, JÃ©rÃ´me Chave, JÃ©rÃ´me OgÃ©e, Josep PeÃ±uelas, Anders RÃ¦bild, Jean-Christophe Domec, Xiaoye Tong, Martin Brandt, Arnaud Mialon, Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez, Torbern Tagesson, Amen Al-Yaari, Yann Kerr, Chi Chen, Ranga B. Myneni, Wenmin Zhang, Jonas ArdÃ¶, Rasmus Fensholt Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite published pages: 1428-1435, ISSN: 2397-334X, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0630-3	Nature Ecology & Evolution 2/9	2020-04-14
2019	Xiaoye Tong, Feng Tian, Martin Brandt, Yi Liu, Wenmin Zhang, Rasmus Fensholt Trends of land surface phenology derived from passive microwave and optical remote sensing systems and associated drivers across the dry tropics 1992â€“2012 published pages: 111307, ISSN: 0034-4257, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111307	Remote Sensing of Environment 232	2020-04-14

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