In a dynamic world where natural disasters like droughts, floods, and fires can wipe out crops and wildland ecosystems alike, vegetation monitoring is an increasingly important use case for remote sensing data. While NASA provides many resources to study vegetation health, solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a relatively new spaceborne remote sensing measurement and offers many unique advantages over traditional metrics like the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).
Starting on October 15, 2025, NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) will offer a three-part, online training building on a previous ARSET course introducing SIF. The training will include background on SIF, detail a number of potential applications of the data, and demonstrate how to access, visualize, and process SIF data using case studies of the 2019 Midwestern U.S. floods and the 2020 Oregon wildfires (Lionshead Fire). This training is open to the public. If you would like to register for the training, please visit the training page.