Data set details

Title

Fractional cover - MODIS

Topic

vegetation

Description

Vegetation fractional cover represents the exposed proportion of Photosynthetic Vegetation (PV), Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation (NPV) and Bare Soil (BS) within each pixel.

Keywords

bare soil, ground cover, vegetation cover

Data Type

raster time series

Variables

fraction Photosynthetic Vegetation, fraction Non-Photosynthetic Vegetation, fraction Bare Soil

Domain

national

Accessibility

free and public

Contact

juan.guerschman@csiro.au

Location of repository

TERN AusCover

Spatial resolution

500 m

Timestep

8 day, 1 month

Start date

Feb-2000

End date

ongoing

Format

nc

Citation and/or DOI

Juan P. Guerschman, Peter F. Scarth, Tim R. McVicar, Luigi J. Renzullo, Tim J. Malthus, Jane B. Stewart, Jasmine E. Rickards, Rebecca Trevithick (2015). Assessing the effects of site heterogeneity and soil properties when unmixing photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil fractions from Landsat and MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 161, pp. 12–26