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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-953-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>High-Resolution GPP Estimation from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Around AmeriFlux Towers: Evaluating Temporal and Geographic Generalisation</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ham</surname>
<given-names>Taewoong</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hu</surname>
<given-names>Baoxin</given-names>
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<addr-line>Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada</addr-line>
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<day>30</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B3-2026</volume>
<fpage>953</fpage>
<lpage>959</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Taewoong Ham</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Accurate estimation of gross primary production (GPP) is fundamental for quantifying the terrestrial carbon cycle. However, coarse-resolution products often fail to capture fine-scale spatial variations in carbon uptake across heterogeneous landscapes. While recent studies have begun to employ 10m Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery, they typically reduce these data to pixel-wise spectral indices, discarding the two-dimensional spatial structure (canopy architecture, land-cover transitions, within-stand heterogeneity) that the imagery encodes. This study investigates whether explicitly exploiting this spatial context via convolutional neural networks yields robust, transferable gains over tabular machine-learning baselines. We curate a quality-controlled dataset of 23,528 eight-day multi-sensor composites from 222 AmeriFlux sites (2015&amp;ndash;2025), evaluated under site-wise cross-validation, temporal generalisation, and geographic transfer to an 18-site upper Midwest forest holdout. Under temporal transfer to unseen years (2023&amp;ndash;2025), the best convolutional model achieves &lt;em&gt;R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt; = 0.77 and RMSE = 1.95 gCm&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;2&lt;/sup&gt; d&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;1&lt;/sup&gt;, an 18.6% RMSE reduction over ridge regression (&lt;em&gt;R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt; = 0.65, RMSE = 2.40 gCm&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;2&lt;/sup&gt; d&lt;sup&gt;&amp;minus;1&lt;/sup&gt;). Although this advantage narrows under geographic transfer to structurally novel regions (&lt;em&gt;R&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/em&gt;= 0.59 vs. 0.54), the convolutional models still outperform all tabular baselines. Spatial structure at 10m therefore supports more robust temporal generalisation than spectral aggregates alone.</p>
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