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The function fitting method is a widely used effective noise reduction technique for VI time series, but it is vulnerable to noise. Thus, ancillary data about VI quality are utilized to alleviate the interference of noise. However, this approach is limited by the availability, accuracy, and application rules of ancillary data. In this paper, we aimed to develop a new reconstruction method that does not require ancillary data. Based on the assumptions that VI time series follow the gradual growth and decline pattern of vegetation dynamics, and that clouds or poor atmospheric conditions usually depress VI values, we proposed a reconstruction method for VI time series based on self-weighting function fitting from curve features (SWCF). SWCF consists of two major procedures: (1) determining a fitting weight for each VI point based on the curve features of the VI time series and (2) implementing the weighted function fitting to reconstruct the VI time series. The double logistic function, double Gaussian function, and polynomial function were tested in SWCF based on a simulated dataset. The results indicate that the weighted function fitting with SWCF outperformed the corresponding unweighted function fitting with the root-mean-square error (RMSE) significantly reduced by 26.82\u201352.44% (p &lt; 0.05), and it also outperformed the Savitzky\u2013Golay filtering with the RMSE significantly reduced by 13.98\u201354.04% (p &lt; 0.05) for 270 sample points selected in mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Moreover, SWCF showed excellent robustness and applicability in regional applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14092247","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,8]],"date-time":"2022-05-08T23:27:25Z","timestamp":1652052445000},"page":"2247","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Reconstruction of Vegetation Index Time Series Based on Self-Weighting Function Fitting from Curve Features"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3011-444X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenquan","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9043-0941","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bangke","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiying","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2833-8148","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cenliang","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Huimin","family":"Zhuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Peixian","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"},{"name":"Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"127","DOI":"10.1016\/0034-4257(79)90013-0","article-title":"Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation","volume":"8","author":"Tucker","year":"1979","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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