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Satellite monitoring of vegetation phenology can capture the spatial patterns of vegetation dynamics at global scales. However, the existing satellite products of global vegetation phenology still show uncertainties in estimating phenological metrices, especially for dormancy onset. The Second-Generation Global Imager (SGLI) onboard the satellite Global Change Observation Mission\u2014Climate (GCOM-C) that launched in 2017 provides a new opportunity to improve the estimation of global vegetation phenology with a spatial resolution of 250 m. In this study, SGLI land surface reflectance data were employed to estimate the green-up and dormancy dates for different vegetation types based on a relative threshold method, in which a snow-free vegetation index (i.e., the normalized difference greenness index, NDGI) was adopted. The validation results show that there are significant agreements between the trajectories of the SGLI-based NDGI and the near-surface green color coordinate index (GCC) at the PhenoCam sites with different vegetation types. The SGLI-based estimation of the green-up dates slightly outperformed that of the existing MODIS and VIIRS phenology products, with an RMSE and R2 of 11.0 days and 0.71, respectively. In contrast, the estimation of the dormancy dates based on the SGLI data yielded much higher accuracies than the MODIS and VIIRS products, with an RMSE decreased from &gt;23.8 days to 15.6 days, and R2 increased from &lt;0.51 to 0.72. 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