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Satellite remote sensing has played an increasingly important role in monitoring and characterizing these changes. Being recognized as a sensitive indicator of global climate change, land surface phenology (LSP) observations by satellite remote sensing have received much attention in recent years; however, much less attention has been paid to the calibration of these observations using standardized procedures. Here, we propose a new approach to calibrating the satellite LSP products by developing a climotransfer function (CTF) based on a polynomial regression of the satellite-ground observation difference in key crop phenophases against climatic factors. We illustrate the model development and evaluation process with a case study of the cropland growing season in Northeast China (NEC) from 2001 to 2010 using the MODIS LSP product MCD12Q2 Collection 6 and the ground-observed crop phenology and climatic data from 98 agrometeorological stations across the region. Our results showed that the start of the cropland growing season (SOS) derived from MODIS data compared well to the ground-observed SOS, whereas the MODIS-derived season end (EOS) was delayed by 15.5 d, relative to ground observation. The MODIS-derived EOS was, therefore, spatiotemporally calibrated using a CTF model fitted to the satellite-ground difference in EOS (\u2206EOS) versus two climatic factors, namely, the growing degree-days on the base temperature of 10 \u00b0C (GDD10) and cloud cover (CL). The calibrated MODIS data revealed that the cropland growing season in NEC tended to shorten at 4.5 d decade\u22121 during 2001\u20132010, mainly driven by a significant delay in SOS at a similar rate, whereas no trend was detected for EOS. The calibrated data also revealed a significant shortening gradient of 1.7 d degree\u22121 of latitude northward. These spatiotemporal patterns would have been erroneously characterized if calibration had not been applied. More attention is therefore called to the proper calibration of satellite LSP products prior to any meaningful applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15010072","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]],"date-time":"2022-12-23T04:24:53Z","timestamp":1671769493000},"page":"72","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Calibration of MODIS-Derived Cropland Growing Season Using the Climotransfer Function and Ground Observations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3059-9304","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liming","family":"Ye","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"},{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Johan","family":"De Grave","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Van Ranst","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Lijun","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"659","DOI":"10.1038\/17709","article-title":"Growing season extended in Europe","volume":"397","author":"Menzel","year":"1999","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Field, C.B., Barros, V.R., Dokken, D.J., Mach, K.J., Mastrandrea, M.D., Bilir, T.E., Chatterjee, M., Ebi, K.L., Estrada, Y.O., and Genova, R.C. 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