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Name Vegetation Ground Measurements
Note Used for Calibration/Validation
Dissemination View and Download Service
Quality Control Procedure Manual
Group Terrestrial
Status -
Uncertainty
Update Frequency
1 year
1 month
1 day
Timeliness
1 month
1 day
1 hour
Scale
Horizontal resolution
100 m
50 m
10 m
Vertical resolution
N/A
N/A
N/A
Essential variables

Land - Biosphere - Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR)

Land - Biosphere - Leaf area index
State Ready
Created on April 27, 2018, 11:42 a.m.
Last updated on Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.

Products

Product Level of definition Relevant for Criticality Barriers Note Created on Last updated on
OLCI Global Vegetation Index (OGVI, a.k.a. FAPAR) Firm Calibration and validation Essential TBD Nov. 28, 2023, 12:16 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation [1 Km] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Availability, Coverage April 27, 2018, 11:43 a.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation [300 m] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Availability, Coverage April 27, 2018, 11:44 a.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Fraction of Vegetation Cover [300 m] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Coverage April 27, 2018, 12:55 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Leaf Area Index [1 Km] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Coverage April 27, 2018, 12:56 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Fraction of Vegetation Cover [1 km] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Coverage April 27, 2018, 12:54 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:21 p.m.
Leaf Area Index [300 m] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Coverage April 27, 2018, 12:56 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Vegetation Condition Index [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Vegetation Productivity Index Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Burnt Area [300 m] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Dynamic Land Cover Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Soil Water Index [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Surface Soil Moisture [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Dry matter Productivity [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Burnt Area [1 Km] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Dry matter Productivity [300 m] Speculative Calibration and validation Desirable Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index [300 m] Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage May 30, 2018, 5:22 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Snow Water Equivalent [5 Km] Speculative Product generation Essential Accuracy, Timeliness Stem volume is required as an input parameter to the emission model to compensate for forest cover effects (Pulliainen et al., 1999; Kruopis et al., 1999); pixel average stem volumes are estimated by utilizing Northern Hemisphere-scale forest transmissivity map data (Metsämäki et al., 2015). Oct. 14, 2018, 12:47 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.

Data

Data Level of compliance Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last updated on
ImagineS Partially Timeliness: Historical FP7 funded dataset April 27, 2018, 12:48 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
VALSE Partially Coverage: Only used for deciduous forest in France April 27, 2018, 1:07 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
FLUXNET Partially Update Frequency: Latest FLUXNET2015 dataset release November 2016 April 27, 2018, 12:39 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
BELMANIP Partially Coverage: Only used as a set of locations April 27, 2018, 12:17 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Geo-Wiki Products Partially Coverage: Citizen science platform, so depends on activities May 30, 2018, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
BigFoot Partially Timeliness: Historical - Link to the data distribution server no longer works May 30, 2018, 5:23 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
DIRECT Partially Coverage: Sparse network of ground measurements June 26, 2018, 4:38 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Fiducial Reference Measurements for Vegetation (FRM4VEG) TBD April 17, 2024, 4:03 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.
Ground-Based Observations for Validation (GBOV) of Copernicus Global Land Products TBD The GBOV service delivers two types of products: ▪ 11 Reference Measurements (RM) corresponding to ground-based measurements derived from Third Party networks:  Visible bands radiometry, RM-1;  Thermal bands radiometry, RM-2;  Atmospheric properties, RM-3;  Transmission through the canopy, RM-4;  Soil BRF/BHR and DHR, RM-5;  FIPAR, RM-6;  LAI, RM-7;  LSE, RM-8;  Ground and surface temperature, RM-9;  Soil Moisture, RM-10;  Meteorological properties, RM-11. ▪ 7 Land Products (LP) comparable to Copernicus EO land products and generated from RMs:  Surface Reflectance, LP-1 ;  Surface Albedo, LP-2,  LAI, LP-3 ;  FAPAR, LP-4 ;  Fcover, LP-5;  Soil moisture, LP-6; Third Party Networks include: - ICOS - CSIRO - FLUXNET - ARM - GCOS - FWO - BSRN - University of Valencia - NOAA - TERN - GEWEX - TERENO - NDACC - SURFRAD - NEON Jan. 24, 2023, 5:57 p.m. Aug. 21, 2024, 5:22 p.m.