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Modeling vegetation greenness and its climate sensitivity with deep-learning technology.

Zhiting Chen¹, Hongyan Liu¹, Chongyang Xu¹

¹College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes Peking University Beijing China.

Ecology and Evolution

|June 30, 2021

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Deep learning models accurately monitor global vegetation greenness by analyzing climate data. This approach reveals vegetation

Keywords:

climate change climate sensitivity deep learning long short‐term memory network vegetation greenness vegetation–climate relationship

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Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Climate Science
Deep Learning Applications

Background:

Traditional climate-vegetation models struggle with complex interactions, leading to uncertainties in predicting vegetation response to climate change.
Accurate monitoring of global vegetation dynamics is crucial for understanding climate change impacts.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate novel global gridded climate-vegetation models using deep learning for enhanced vegetation monitoring.
To investigate the intricate relationship between climate variables and vegetation greenness.
To assess the sensitivity of global vegetation to climate change.

Main Methods:

Utilized a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, a deep learning algorithm, for time-series modeling of climate and vegetation data.
Trained models using monthly temperature and precipitation data (1982-2003) and validated with data from 2004-2015.
Employed error and sensitivity analyses to evaluate model performance and vegetation climate sensitivity.

Main Results:

Deep learning models demonstrated high accuracy in simulating and predicting vegetation greenness (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index - NDVI).
Achieved a root mean square error (RMSE) of less than 0.01 during model training, with strong validation results.
Sensitivity analysis revealed distinct spatial patterns in global vegetation's response to climate variations.

Conclusions:

Deep learning, specifically LSTM networks, offers a powerful and effective method for accurate vegetation monitoring and understanding climate-vegetation interactions.
The study provides a novel approach to investigate vegetation climate sensitivity, highlighting the potential of integrating deep learning into global change research.
Future work can extend deep learning applications to more complex ecological systems and integrate physical processes for deeper insights.