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Accurate and efficient prediction of the outbreak date of pollen allergies plays an important role in the conservation of people sensitive to allergenic pollen. It is a frontier research to combine new social media data and satellite data to develop a model to forecast the outbreak date of pollen allergies. This study extracted the real outbreak dates of spring pollen allergies from Sina Weibo records from 2011 to 2021 in Beijing and calculated five vegetation indices of three vegetation types as phenological characteristics within the 30 days before the average outbreak date. The sensitivity coefficients and correlation coefficients were used to screen the phenological characteristics that best reflected the outbreak date of spring pollen allergy. Based on the best characteristic, two kinds of prediction models for the outbreak date of spring pollen allergy in Beijing were established (the linear fit prediction model and the cumulative linear fit prediction model), and the root mean square error (RMSE) was calculated as the prediction accuracy. The results showed that (1) the date of EVI2 (2-band enhanced vegetation index) in evergreen forest first reaching 0.138 can best reflect the outbreak date of pollen allergies in spring, and (2) the cumulative linear fit prediction model based on EVI2 in evergreen forests can obtain a high accuracy with an average RMSE of 3.6 days, which can predict the outbreak date of spring pollen allergies 30 days in advance. Compared with the existing indirect prediction models (which predict pollen concentrations rather than pollen allergies), this model provides a new direct way to predict pollen allergy outbreaks by using only remote sensing time-series data before pollen allergy outbreaks. The new prediction model also has better representativeness and operability and is capable of assisting public health management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14225891","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,21]],"date-time":"2022-11-21T04:33:32Z","timestamp":1669005212000},"page":"5891","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Prediction Model for the Outbreak Date of Spring Pollen Allergy in Beijing Based on Satellite-Derived Phenological Characteristics of Vegetation Greenness"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xinyi","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, 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\/0000-0003-3011-444X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenquan","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, 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, 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":[[2022,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"562","DOI":"10.1016\/S1808-8694(15)31005-3","article-title":"Pollen allergic disease: Pollens and its major allergens","volume":"72","author":"Taketomi","year":"2006","journal-title":"Braz. 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