LAI estimations

Hi William
I am seeing some interesting variations in the LAI values… quite a few unexpected variations, since the crop in that area is in good growth. Importantly, we will be manually measuring LAI periodically but on a sample set of plants in that area.

  1. Has any validation been done using the algorithm?
  2. I have implemented a polynomial derivation of LAI based on NDVI (https://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/unit/publications/PDFfiles/1153.pdf). I pull NDVI using CLM from sentinel 2. This approach has given us lesser data points, but this matches better with the manual measurement. Data set is small though.

How do you propose we narrow down the gaps? What would you like from me?
Best
Karthik