Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity: Start-of-season date 2000-2025 (raster 500m)

The start-of-season date (SOSD) marks the date when the vegetation growing season starts in the time profile of the Plant Phenology Index (PPI). The start-of-season occurs, by definition, when the PPI value reaches 25% of the season amplitude during the green-up period.

The Plant Phenology Index (PPI) is a physically based vegetation index, developed for improving the monitoring of the vegetation growth cycle. The PPI index values, withwith daily inputs, are first used in a function fitting to derive the PPI Seasonal Trajectories. From these Seasonal Trajectories, a suite of 13 Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (VPP) parameters are then computed and provided, for up to two seasons each year. The SOSD is one of the 13 parameters.

The Start-of-Season Date (SOSD) time series dataset is made available as raster files with 500 x 500m resolution, in ETRS89-LAEA projection corresponding to the MCD43 tiling grid.

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Date ( Creation )
2026-04-28
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_500_m_mrvpp-sosd_p_2000-2025_v05_r00
Owner
  European Commission
https://commission.europa.eu
Custodian
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
https://land.copernicus.eu
Publisher
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Point of contact
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
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Spatial scope ( Theme )
Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
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no limitations to public access
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Association Type
Cross reference
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Cross reference
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Cross reference
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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Association Type
Cross reference
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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Association Type
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Unique resource identifier
09eac45f-6ce0-49de-bc24-4f7b48f8397a
Association Type
Part of seamless database
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
500  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2000-01-01
End date
2025-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

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Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
Vegetation Phenology and Productivity parameters (VPP) are based on Plant Phenology Index (PPI) seasonal trajectories and are yearly produced for two seasons using the Timesat 4 software. One of the parameters is the start date of the vegetation growing season (start-of-season date (SOSD) . The related PPI value and slope (rate of PPI change) for this date are available as well.
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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-07-10T15:13:50.064318Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA topics
GEMET
index land plant ecology plant production productivity remote sensing vegetation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Environmental monitoring facilities Habitats and biotopes Orthoimagery
Spatial scope
European

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