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Here, we examined the utility of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD) observations from NASA\u2019s L-band Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission for the prediction of leaf area index (LAI), a common metric of canopy phenology. We leveraged mutual information theory to determine whether SM and VOD contain information about the temporal dynamics of LAI that is not contained in traditional LAI predictors (i.e., precipitation, temperature, and radiation) and known LAI climatology. We found that adding SMAP SM and VOD to multivariate non-linear empirical models to predict daily LAI anomalies improved model fit and reduced error by 5.2% compared with models including only traditional LAI predictors and LAI climatology (average R2 = 0.22 vs. 0.15 and unbiased root mean square error [ubRMSE] = 0.130 vs. 0.137 for cross-validated models with and without SM and VOD, respectively). SMAP SM and VOD made the more improvement in model fit in grasslands (R2 = 0.24 vs. 0.16 and ubRMSE = 0.118 vs. 0.126 [5.7% reduction] for models with and without SM and VOD, respectively); model predictions were least improved in shrublands. Analysis of feature importance indicates that LAI climatology and temperature were overall the two most informative variables for LAI anomaly prediction. SM was more important in drier regions, whereas VOD was consistently the second least important factor. Variations in total LAI were mostly explained by local daily LAI climatology. On average, the R2s and ubRMSE of total LAI predictions by the traditional drivers and its climatology are 0.81 and 0.137, respectively. Adding SMAP SM and VOD to these existing predictors improved the R2s to 0.83 (0.02 improvement in R2s) and reduced the ubRMSE to 0.13 (5.2% reduction). Though these improvements were modest on average, in locations where LAI climatology is not reflective of LAI dynamics and anomalies are larger, we find SM and VOD to be considerably more useful for LAI prediction. Overall, we find that L-band SM and VOD observations can be useful for prediction of LAI, though the informational contribution varies with land cover and environmental conditions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13071343","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,1]],"date-time":"2021-04-01T10:44:01Z","timestamp":1617273841000},"page":"1343","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["The Value of L-Band Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Estimates in the Prediction of Vegetation Phenology"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Bonan","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological &amp; Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4363-1577","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stephen P.","family":"Good","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological &amp; Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}]},{"given":"Dawn R.","family":"URycki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological &amp; Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1725","DOI":"10.1111\/pce.12431","article-title":"Photoperiod constraints on tree phenology, performance and migration in a warming world","volume":"38","author":"Way","year":"2014","journal-title":"Plant Cell Environ."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2973","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2010.0158","article-title":"Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century","volume":"365","author":"Gornall","year":"2010","journal-title":"Philos. 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