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Although multiple satellite LAI products have been generated, they usually show spatio-temporal discontinuities and are sometimes inconsistent with vegetation growth patterns. A deep-learning model was proposed to retrieve time-series LAIs from multiple satellite data in this paper. The fusion of three global LAI products (i.e., VIIRS, GLASS, and MODIS LAI) was first carried out through a double logistic function (DLF). Then, the DLF LAI, together with MODIS reflectance (MOD09A1) data, served as the training samples of the deep-learning long short-term memory (LSTM) model for the sequential LAI estimations. In addition, the LSTM models trained by a single LAI product were considered as indirect references for the further evaluation of our proposed approach. The validation results showed that our proposed LSTMfusion LAI provided the best performance (R2 = 0.83, RMSE = 0.82) when compared to LSTMGLASS (R2 = 0.79, RMSE = 0.93), LSTMMODIS (R2 = 0.78, RMSE = 1.25), LSTMVIIRS (R2 = 0.70, RMSE = 0.94), GLASS (R2 = 0.68, RMSE = 1.05), MODIS (R2 = 0.26, RMSE = 1.75), VIIRS (R2 = 0.44, RMSE = 1.37) and DLF LAI (R2 = 0.67, RMSE = 0.98). A temporal comparison among LSTMfusion and three LAI products demonstrated that the LSTMfusion model efficiently generated a time-series LAI that was smoother and more continuous than the VIIRS and MODIS LAIs. At the crop peak growth stage, the LSTMfusion LAI values were closer to the reference maps than the GLASS LAI. Furthermore, our proposed method was proved to be effective and robust in maintaining the spatio-temporal continuity of the LAI when noisy reflectance data were used as the LSTM input. These findings highlighted that the DLF method helped to enhance the quality of the original satellite products, and the LSTM model trained by the coupled satellite products can provide reliable and robust estimations of the time-series LAI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14194733","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,22]],"date-time":"2022-09-22T23:07:55Z","timestamp":1663888075000},"page":"4733","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Estimation of Vegetation Leaf-Area-Index Dynamics from Multiple Satellite Products through Deep-Learning Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4968-6560","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tian","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huaan","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ainong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China"},{"name":"Wanglang Mountain Remote Sensing Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, Mianyang 621000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6345-1197","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongliang","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dandan","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Beijing 100048, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinyao","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China"},{"name":"Wanglang Mountain Remote Sensing Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, Mianyang 621000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xi","family":"Nan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Digital Mountain and Remote Sensing Application, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China"},{"name":"Wanglang Mountain Remote Sensing Observation and Research Station of Sichuan Province, Mianyang 621000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"48","DOI":"10.1016\/j.agrformet.2018.02.003","article-title":"Continuous estimation of canopy leaf area index (LAI) and clumping index over broadleaf crop fields: An investigation of the PASTIS-57 instrument and smartphone applications","volume":"253","author":"Fang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Agric. 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