RTM Surrogate Modeling in Optical Remote Sensing: A Review of Emulation for Vegetation and Atmosphere Applications
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| Publicado no: | Remote Sensing vol. 17, no. 21 (2025), p. 3618-3647 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Verrelst Jochem |u Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna, 46980 Valencia, Spain; miguel.morata@uv.es (M.M.); jose.l.garcia@uv.es (J.L.G.-S.) | |
| 245 | 1 | |a RTM Surrogate Modeling in Optical Remote Sensing: A Review of Emulation for Vegetation and Atmosphere Applications | |
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| 520 | 3 | |a <sec sec-type="highlights"> What are the main findings? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>Emulation via machine learning regression algorithms (MLRAs) accurately reproduces vegetation and atmospheric RTMs while accelerating computations by <inline-formula>102</inline-formula>–<inline-formula>106</inline-formula>. <list-item> Dimensionality reduction (e.g., PCA, autoencoders) with scalable MLRAs (GPR, NN, DLNN) optimizes the accuracy–efficiency trade-off for hyperspectral and coupled models. </list-item> What is the implication of the main finding? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>Emulation enables fast global sensitivity analysis, scene generation, and large-scale inversion applications. <list-item> Anticipated advances: physics-informed/explainable emulation, reliable uncertainty layers, and emulation of water and soil RTMs. </list-item> Radiative transfer models (RTMs) are foundational to optical remote sensing for simulating vegetation and atmospheric properties. However, their significant computational cost, especially for 3D RTMs and large-scale applications, severely limits their utility. Emulation, or surrogate modeling, has emerged as a highly effective strategy, accurately and efficiently replicating RTM outputs. This review comprehensively surveys recent developments in emulating vegetation and atmospheric RTMs. We discuss the methodological underpinnings, including suitable machine learning regression algorithms (MLRAs), effective training sampling strategies (e.g., Latin Hypercube Sampling, active learning), and spectral dimensionality reduction (DR) methods (e.g., PCA, autoencoders). Emulators commonly achieve <inline-formula>102−106×</inline-formula> per-evaluation acceleration, but accuracy–efficiency trade-offs remain inherently context-dependent, governed by the MLRA design and the coverage/quality of training data. DR consistently shifts this trade-off toward lower cost at comparable accuracy, positioning latent-space training as a pragmatic choice for hyperspectral applications. We synthesize key emulation applications such as global sensitivity analysis, synthetic scene generation, scene-to-scene translation (e.g., multispectral-to-hyperspectral), and retrieval of geophysical variables using remote sensing data. The paper concludes by outlining persistent challenges in generalizability, interpretability, and scalability, while also proposing future research avenues: investigating advanced deep learning algorithms (e.g., physics-informed and explainable architectures), developing multimodal/multitemporal frameworks, and establishing community benchmarks, tools and libraries. Emulation ultimately empowers remote sensing workflows with unparalleled scalability, transforming previously unmanageable tasks into viable solutions for operational Earth observation applications. | |
| 653 | |a Vegetation | ||
| 653 | |a Benchmarks | ||
| 653 | |a Principles | ||
| 653 | |a Accuracy | ||
| 653 | |a Radiative transfer | ||
| 653 | |a Sensitivity analysis | ||
| 653 | |a Physics | ||
| 653 | |a Modelling | ||
| 653 | |a Tradeoffs | ||
| 653 | |a Aerosols | ||
| 653 | |a Remote sensing | ||
| 653 | |a Scene generation | ||
| 653 | |a Machine learning | ||
| 653 | |a Hypercubes | ||
| 653 | |a Sampling | ||
| 653 | |a Time series | ||
| 653 | |a Realism | ||
| 653 | |a Deep learning | ||
| 653 | |a Radiation | ||
| 653 | |a Learning algorithms | ||
| 653 | |a Optical properties | ||
| 653 | |a Simulation | ||
| 653 | |a Atmosphere | ||
| 653 | |a Computing costs | ||
| 653 | |a Algorithms | ||
| 653 | |a Chlorophyll | ||
| 653 | |a Latin hypercube sampling | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Morata Miguel |u Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna, 46980 Valencia, Spain; miguel.morata@uv.es (M.M.); jose.l.garcia@uv.es (J.L.G.-S.) | |
| 700 | 1 | |a García-Soria, José Luis |u Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna, 46980 Valencia, Spain; miguel.morata@uv.es (M.M.); jose.l.garcia@uv.es (J.L.G.-S.) | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Sun, Yilin |u State Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Forest Resources and Environmental Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; ssyylin_sun@bjfu.edu.cn | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Qi Jianbo |u State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; jianboqi@bnu.edu.cn | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Rivera-Caicedo, Juan Pablo |u Secretary of Research and Graduate Studies, CONACYT-UAN, Tepic 63155, Mexico; jprivera@conacyt.mx | |
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