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Dust pollution has become an environmental problem in many areas in China, indicating that accurately estimating chlorophyll content of vegetation using remote sensing for assessing the vegetation growth status in dusty areas is vital. However, dust deposited on the leaf may affect the chlorophyll content retrieval accuracy. Thus, quantitatively studying the dustfall effect is essential. Using selected vegetation indices (VIs), the medium resolution imaging spectrometer terrestrial chlorophyll index (MTCI), and the double difference index (DD), we studied the retrieval accuracy of chlorophyll content at the leaf scale under dusty environments based on a laboratory experiment and spectra simulation. First, the retrieval accuracy under different dustfall amounts was studied based on a laboratory experiment. Then, the relationship between dustfall amount and fractional dustfall cover (FDC) was experimentally analyzed for spectra simulation of dusty leaves. Based on spectral data simulated using a PROSPECT-based mixture model, the sensitivity of VIs to dust under different chlorophyll contents was analyzed comprehensively, and the MTCI was modified to reduce its sensitivity to dust. The results showed that (1) according to experimental investigation, the DD model provides low retrieval accuracy, the MTCI model is highly accurate when the dustfall amount is less than 80 g\/m2, and the retrieval accuracy decreases significantly when the dustfall amount is more than 80 g\/m2; (2) a logarithmic relationship exists between FDC and dustfall amount, and the PROSPECT-based mixture model can simulate the leaf spectra under different dustfall amounts and different chlorophyll contents with a root mean square error of 0.015; and (3) according to numerical investigation, MTCI\u2019s sensitivity to dust in the chlorophyll content range of 25 to 60 \u03bcg\/cm2 is lower than in other chlorophyll content ranges; DD\u2019s sensitivity to dust was generally high throughout the whole chlorophyll content range. These findings may contribute to quantitatively understanding the dustfall effect on the retrieval of chlorophyll content and would help to accurately retrieve chlorophyll content in dusty areas using remote sensing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19245530","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,16]],"date-time":"2019-12-16T05:19:38Z","timestamp":1576473578000},"page":"5530","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Dustfall Effect on Remote Sensing Retrieval Accuracy of Chlorophyll Content"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Baodong","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"},{"name":"Institute for Geoinformatics &amp; Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}]},{"given":"Xuexin","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"},{"name":"Institute for Geoinformatics &amp; Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}]},{"given":"Aiman","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"},{"name":"Institute for Geoinformatics &amp; Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}]},{"given":"Yuteng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"},{"name":"Institute for Geoinformatics &amp; Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}]},{"given":"Defu","family":"Che","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education on Safe Mining of Deep Metal Mines, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"},{"name":"Institute for Geoinformatics &amp; Digital Mine Research, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"849","DOI":"10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2019.03.238","article-title":"Trace elements in berries collected near upgraders and open pit mines in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands Region (ABSR): Distinguishing atmospheric dust deposition from plant uptake","volume":"670","author":"Stachiw","year":"2019","journal-title":"Sci. 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