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An R package for the simulation of leaf optical properties based on their biochemical and biophysical properties using the PROSPECT leaf model.

1 Install

After installing package devtools, the package prospect can be installed with the following command line in R session:

devtools::install_github("jbferet/prospect")

<span style="color:red">**WARNING : **</span> many functions have been renamed in v2.0 of the package. The documentation has been updated accordingly. Please refer to the documentation for additional information.

2 Tutorial

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A tutorial vignette is available here.

3 Acknowledgments / Fundings

This research was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France) through the young researchers project BioCop (ANR-17-CE32-0001)

4 Citation

If you use prospect, please cite the following references for PROSPECT-PRO and PROSPECT-D:

Féret, J.-B. & de Boissieu, F. (2024). prospect: an R package to link leaf optical properties with their chemical and structural properties with the leaf model PROSPECT. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(94), 6027, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06027

Féret, J.-B., Berger, K., de Boissieu, F. & Malenovský, Z. (2021). PROSPECT-PRO for estimating content of nitrogen-containing leaf proteins and other carbon-based constituents. Remote Sensing of Environment. 252, 112173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112173

Féret, J.-B., Gitelson, A.A., Noble, S.D. & Jacquemoud, S. (2017). PROSPECT-D: Towards modeling leaf optical properties through a complete lifecycle. Remote Sensing of Environment. 193, 204–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.004

The inversion of PROSPECT using only directional-hemispherical reflectance or directional-hemispherical transmittance, and prior estimation of N is explained here:

Spafford, L., le Maire, G., MacDougall, A., de Boissieu, F. & Féret, J.-B. (2021). Spectral subdomains and prior estimation of leaf structure improves PROSPECT inversion on reflectance or transmittance alone. Remote Sensing of Environment. 252, 112176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112176