Monthly Leaf Area Index of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery

Monthly Leaf Area Index of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery Leaf area index (LAI) quantified the density of vegetation irrespective of land cover. LAI quantifies the total foliage surface area per ground surface area. LAI has been identified by the Global Climate Observing System as an essential climate variable required for ecosystem, weather and climate modelling and monitoring. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of the maximum LAI during a growing season (May-June-july-August-September) at 20m. References: L. Brown, R. Fernandes, N. Djamai, C. Meier, N. Gobron, H. Morris, C. Canisius, G. Bai, C. Lerebourg, C. Lanconelli, M. Clerici, J. Dash. Validation of baseline and modified Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor leaf area index retrievals over the United States IISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 175 (2021), pp. 71-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.02.020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271621000617 Richard Fernandes, Luke Brown, Francis Canisius, Jadu Dash, Liming He, Gang Hong, Lucy Huang, Nhu Quynh Le, Camryn MacDougall, Courtney Meier, Patrick Osei Darko, Hemit Shah, Lynsay Spafford, Lixin Sun, 2023. Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113600. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723001517 2024-01-16 Natural Resources Canada richard.fernandes@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca Form DescriptorsClimate variables; biophysical parameters; canopy coverTreesCropsLand cover Product User GuideHTML https://sites.google.com/view/leaf-toolbox-canada-laiv1/home Monthly Leaf Area Index of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite ImageryWCS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/ows/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m?service=WCS&request=Getcapabilities STAC APIHTML https://datacube.services.geo.ca/api/collections/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m-v1 Leaf Area Index (LAI)WMS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/web/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m.xml?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=LAI&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=text%2Fxml Leaf Area Index (LAI)WMS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/web/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m.xml?request=Getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=LAI&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=text%2Fxml Web Viewer of Temporal Series of Monthly Vegetation Parameters of CanadaHTML https://datacube.services.geo.ca/en/viewer/eo4ce/vegetation/monthly-vegetation.html Web Viewer of Temporal Series of Monthly Vegetation Parameters of CanadaHTML https://datacube.services.geo.ca/fr/viewer/eo4ce/vegetation/monthly-vegetation.html

Leaf area index (LAI) quantified the density of vegetation irrespective of land cover. LAI quantifies the total foliage surface area per ground surface area. LAI has been identified by the Global Climate Observing System as an essential climate variable required for ecosystem, weather and climate modelling and monitoring. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of the maximum LAI during a growing season (May-June-july-August-September) at 20m.

References:

L. Brown, R. Fernandes, N. Djamai, C. Meier, N. Gobron, H. Morris, C. Canisius, G. Bai, C. Lerebourg, C. Lanconelli, M. Clerici, J. Dash. Validation of baseline and modified Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor leaf area index retrievals over the United States IISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 175 (2021), pp. 71-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.02.020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271621000617

Richard Fernandes, Luke Brown, Francis Canisius, Jadu Dash, Liming He, Gang Hong, Lucy Huang, Nhu Quynh Le, Camryn MacDougall, Courtney Meier, Patrick Osei Darko, Hemit Shah, Lynsay Spafford, Lixin Sun, 2023.

Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests,

Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113600.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723001517

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