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Fractional Vegetation Cover, West Africa, 2007-2012
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/biophysical-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
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-01-03T00:00:00
- Edition
- Version 1
- Purpose
- The dataset has been developed to improve the land surface description within Regional Climate Models (e.g. WRF) for West Africa.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
-
- fractional cover
- ECV
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
-
- vegetation
- vegetation cover
- Region
-
- Western Africa
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Currently accessible upon request to the originator only.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Boundaries
- Begin date
- 2007-01-01
- End date
- 2012-12-31
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- Supplemental Information
-
data scaling: fCover[%]= pixelvalue/250
valid data range: 0-250 (=0-100%), 255=no data
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9
- Number of dimensions
- 3
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 1345
- Resolution
- 1km
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 2130
- Resolution
- 1km
- Dimension name
- Time
- Dimension size
- 36
- Resolution
- 10 days
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- No
- Distribution format
-
-
netCDF
(
nn
)
-
netCDF
(
nn
)
Distributor
- Ordering instructions
- Please contact distributor by e-mail for accessing the data.
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2007.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2007
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2008.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2008
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2009.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2009
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2010.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2010
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2011.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2011
- OnLine resource
-
WASCAL_DFD_fused_fCover_WA_2012.nc
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
fCover 2012
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- The regionally adapted, continuous, and gap free time series has been created by data fusion methods based on fCover products. The two fused fCover products are the SEVIRI based LSA-SAF fCover (http://landsaf.meteo.pt/) and the SPOT-VGT based geoland 2 BioPar fCover product (http://www.gmes-geoland.info/service-portfolio/biophysical-parameter-products.html). For a detailled description of the dataset creation please contact ursula.gessner@dlr.de
- Description
- For a detailled description of the dataset creation please contact ursula.gessner@dlr.de
- File identifier
- 5bc2bf2f-dd17-4e27-9135-980d9ef1ffa7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2016-10-18T15:43:13
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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