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