CCI-LC seasonality product. Characterizing the reference dynamics of the land surface.
(2014) The 4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing: RAQRS’IV — Location: Torrent (Valencia)-Spain (22.September.2014)
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- Land Cover (LC) was listed as an Essential Climate Variable by the Global Climate Observing System and was included in the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI). The ESA CCI aims at providing global long-term satellite-based products tailored to the need of the climate modelling community. In the framework of the CCI-LC project, the LC concept was revisited in order to reconcile the LC users’ divergent needs for both stable/consistent global LC products over time and a more dynamic description of the land surface processes. Three global CCI-LC seasonality products were therefore generated in response to the need for dynamic information. These climatologies describe the average behaviour of the green vegetation phenology, the burned areas and snow occurrences over the 1999-2012 period. They are based on existing products, independent sensors, spatio-temporal resolutions and algorithms. The integration of 13 or 14 years of observations allows characterizing the land surface even in the cloudiest regions of the world. These CCI-LC seasonality products, thanks to a processing step of compliance, can be used together and with the CCI-LC Maps to describe the land surface in a detailed and consistent manner.
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Lamarche, C., Bontemps, S., Rousseau, C., De Maet, T., Verhegghen, A., Radoux, J., Van Bogaert, E., Arino, O., & Defourny, P. (2014). CCI-LC seasonality product. Characterizing the reference dynamics of the land surface. The 4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing: RAQRS’IV, Torrent (Valencia)-Spain. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/260929