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@ARTICLE{QuirosVargas:1050507,
author = {Quiros-Vargas, Juan and Brogi, Cosimo and Damm, Alexander
and Siegmann, Bastian and Rademske, Patrick and
Burchard-Levine, Vicente and Krieger, Vera and Schmidt,
Marius and Hanuš, Jan and Martello, Mauricio and
Weihermüller, Lutz and Muller, Onno and Rascher, Uwe},
title = {{S}olar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence ({SIF}) tracks
variations in the soil-plant available water ({PAW}): a
multiyear analysis on three crops},
journal = {Science of remote Sensing},
volume = {13},
issn = {2666-0172},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2026-00275},
pages = {100367 -},
year = {2026},
abstract = {Restrictions in the soil water availability can strongly
impact crop productivity. The increasing frequency
andseverity of drought events, as a result of global
warming, has made the assessment of drought stress effects
onvegetation of utmost importance for meeting humanity's
agricultural production needs. Recent advances inremote
sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)
provide a basis for new approaches to directlyassess crop
water status, since SIF is closely related to photosynthesis
and, thus, to early plant physiologicalprocesses triggered
by limitations in the water supply. This study provides new
insights into the effect of varyinglevels of plant available
water (PAW) in the soil on SIF emissions. We used several
SIF datasets acquired with thehigh-performance airborne
imaging spectrometer HyPlant during five subsequent
vegetation periods (2018,2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022), each
having a different precipitation regime. We normalized the
SIF maps for theunderlying effects of canopy structure,
calculated SIF emission efficiency (eSIF) and selected
various crop fieldsincluding sugar beet, wheat and potato.
Maps of eSIF were compared with spatial PAW patterns, which
werederived from a forward soil infiltration model. Our
results show positive correlation between eSIF and PAW
inrainfed sugar beet fields at early growing stage, which
remained consistent when accounting for variations in
theleaf area index (LAI). This suggests that eSIF variations
in sugar beet reflect the spatial reduction of
photosynthesiscaused by reduced PAW. In irrigated potato
fields, conversely, no eSIF-PAW correlations were found.
Thisindicates the absence of leaf-level water stress in
these well-irrigated fields. In rainfed winter wheat fields
thatwere already in a late developmental stage, the
variations in the SIF signal were dominated by locally
differentripening, i.e., chlorophyll degradation, and
therefore not representative of changing PAW. With this
study, wecould demonstrate that normalized airborne SIF
measurements are related to the functional water stress
responsein different crops. This study supports future
investigations on the development of SIF-based tools for
theimprovement of water management in agriculture.},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {910},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1016/j.srs.2026.100367},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1050507},
}