Monthly Fraction of Vegetation Cover of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery

Monthly Fraction of Vegetation Cover of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery FCOVER corresponds to the amount of the ground surface that is covered by vegetation, including the understory, when viewed vertically (from nadir). FCOVER is an indicator of the spatial extent of vegetation independent of land cover class. It is a dimensionless quantity that varies from 0 to 1, and as an intrinsic property of the canopy, is not dependent on satellite observation conditions. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of FCOVER indicator during a growing season (May-June-July-August-September) at 20m resolution. 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 coverLand coverTreesCrops STAC APIHTML https://datacube.services.geo.ca/api/collections/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m-v1 Product User GuideHTML https://sites.google.com/view/leaf-toolbox-canada-fcoverv1/home Monthly Fraction of Vegetation Cover of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite ImageryWCS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/ows/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m?service=WCS&request=Getcapabilities Fraction of Vegetation Cover (fCOVER)WMS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/web/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m.xml?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=fCOVER&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=text%2Fxml Fraction of Vegetation Cover (fCOVER)WMS https://datacube.services.geo.ca/web/monthly-vegetation-parameters-20m.xml?request=Getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=fCOVER&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

FCOVER corresponds to the amount of the ground surface that is covered by vegetation, including the understory, when viewed vertically (from nadir). FCOVER is an indicator of the spatial extent of vegetation independent of land cover class. It is a dimensionless quantity that varies from 0 to 1, and as an intrinsic property of the canopy, is not dependent on satellite observation conditions. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of FCOVER indicator during a growing season (May-June-July-August-September) at 20m resolution.

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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