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Fractional Vegetation Cover, West Africa, 2007-2012

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Time series of fractional vegetation cover (fCover) information for West Africa. The regionally adapted, continuous, and gap free time series has been created by data fusion methods based on fCover products of LSA-SAF (http://landsaf.meteo.pt/) and geoland 2 (BioPar, http://www.gmes-geoland.info/service-portfolio/biophysi
cal-parameter-products.html).

Additional information on the data:

  • 10-day timesteps (3 datasets per month)

  • spatial resolution: ~1km (Lat/Lon WGS-84, 0.00892857 deg)

  • coverage: 2007-2012

  • data scaling: FCOVER[%]= pixelvalue/250

  • valid data range: 0-250 (=0-100%), 255=no data

  • number of samples: 2130, number of lines: 1345

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Modified
2024-03-05
Release Date
2019-09-26
Identifier
18384a1f-6e22-4bdd-b748-bd63a62a9c2f
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Friday, January 29, 2016 (All day)
Language
English
Contact Name
Ursula Gessner
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Ursula Gessner
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