Chlorophyll fluorescence（CF） has become a powerful tool in plant photosynthesis research and stress detection.These types of methods have been mostly relegated to the laboratory.Recently much attention has been paid to chlorophyll fluorescence sensing for the remote estimation of plant physiological status.Remotely sensed chlorophyll fluorescence emission has a potential to become one of the major global-scale reporter signals on vegetation performance and stress.In this paper

firstly

laser induced fluorescence sensing was presented

including a brief introduction

plant fluorescence spectral characters and some applications for stress detection.An overview was then given to the developments of solar induced fluorescence sensing

including methodology for the retrieval of vegetation CF from apparent reflectance（vegetation indices and FLD） and applications for monitoring plant health.Finally

the future development trends and the prospect of active and passive remote sensing of chlorophyll fluorescence were discussed.