Lei Fan¹, Jean-Pierre Wigneron¹, Philippe Ciais², Jérome Chave³, Martin Brandt⁴, Rasmus Fensholt⁵, Sassan Saatchi⁶, Ana Bastos⁷, Amen Al-Yaari⁸, Koen Hufkens^9,10, Yuanwei Qin¹¹, Xiangming Xiao¹², Fernandez-Moran Roberto¹³, Chi Chen¹⁴, Ranga B Myneni¹⁴, Arnaud Mialon¹⁵, Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez¹⁶, Yann H Kerr¹⁷, Feng Tian¹⁸ and Josep Peñuelas¹⁹, (1)ISPA, INRA, Bordeaux, France, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, UMR 5174 Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Toulouse, France, (4)University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, København K, Denmark, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany, (8)ISPA, INRA Bordeaux, France, Bordeaux, France, (9)Ghent University, Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Gent, Belgium, (10)INRA, UMR ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France, (11)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, (12)Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (13)University of Valencia, Image Processing Laboratory,, Valencia, Spain, (14)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (15)CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, Toulouse, France, (16)CESBIO, Bordeaux, France, (17)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (18)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, (19)CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain