The Core Mapping Service BioPar of the geoland2 project announces the availability of 30 years time series of global LAI, FAPAR and FCover made of:
- from 1981 to 2000, LAI, FAPAR and FCover are derived from NOAA/AVHRR Long Term Data Record (LTRD) dataset provided by NASA and the University of Maryland. They cover the globe at 0.05° resolution.
- from 1999 to the present, LAI, FAPAR and FCover are derived from SPOT/VGT data at 1km resolution.
The innovative methodology set-up by INRA allows that both datasets are fully compatible. The NOAA/AVHRR products have been generated by CNES, and the SPOT/VGT products are produced by VITO.
All these products can be discovered and ordered freely through the geoland2 web portal following the link http://www.geoland2.eu/core-mapping-services/biopar.html. The Algorithmic Theoretical Basis Documents, and the Product User Manuals are also available. It is also possible to subscribe to receive the future products (from SPOT/VGT) as soon as they are generated (http://www.geoland2.eu/portal/system/subscription.html).
They were all developed in the framework of the FP7/geoland2 project (http://www.gmes-geoland.info), the precursor project of the GMES Land service.
Source: http://www.geoland2.eu/core-mapping-services/biopar.html
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