Monthly Fraction of Vegetation Cover of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery

FCOVER corresponds to the amount of the ground surface that is covered by vegetation, including the understory, when viewed vertically (from nadir). FCOVER is an indicator of the spatial extent of vegetation independent of land cover class. It is a dimensionless quantity that varies from 0 to 1, and as an intrinsic property of the canopy, is not dependent on satellite observation conditions. This product consists of a national scale coverage (Canada) of monthly maps of FCOVER indicator during a growing season (May-June-July-August-September) at 20m resolution.

References:

L. Brown, R. Fernandes, N. Djamai, C. Meier, N. Gobron, H. Morris, C. Canisius, G. Bai, C. Lerebourg, C. Lanconelli, M. Clerici, J. Dash. Validation of baseline and modified Sentinel-2 Level 2 Prototype Processor leaf area index retrievals over the United States IISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 175 (2021), pp. 71-87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.02.020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271621000617

Richard Fernandes, Luke Brown, Francis Canisius, Jadu Dash, Liming He, Gang Hong, Lucy Huang, Nhu Quynh Le, Camryn MacDougall, Courtney Meier, Patrick Osei Darko, Hemit Shah, Lynsay Spafford, Lixin Sun, 2023.

Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests,

Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113600.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723001517

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Date ( RI_367 )
2023-07-26
Date ( RI_366 )
2023-01-23
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;SPIS/CCMEO/CCRS - Richard Fernandes ( Research Scientist )
560 Booth Street , Ottawa ,
Status
underDevelopment; enProduction RI_599
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Climate variables, biophysical parameters, canopy cover
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Land cover
  • Trees
  • Crops
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2019-05-01
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3979 /
Distribution format
  • GeoTIF ( N/A )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

  • WCS ( 1.1.1 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;SPIS/CCMEO/CCRS - Richard Fernandes ( Research Scientist )
560 Booth Street , Ottawa ,
OnLine resource
STAC API ( HTTPS )

API;Web App;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Product User Guide ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Monthly Fraction of Vegetation Cover of Canada from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WCS;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Fraction of Vegetation Cover (fCOVER) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Fraction of Vegetation Cover (fCOVER) ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Web Viewer of Temporal Series of Monthly Vegetation Parameters of Canada ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Web Viewer of Temporal Series of Monthly Vegetation Parameters of Canada ( HTTPS )

Application;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Fraction of Vegetation Cover (fCOVER) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Monthly Cloud Optimized GeoTiFF (COG) - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) browser ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;eng,fra

File identifier
d7b177e0-274a-4be9-b69a-2030faf83c78 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
Canada Wide Vegetation Maps from Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery - Collection 033ac0b8-653c-43b2-a843-171fa1c9ace4
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2024-11-07T13:34:19
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_418
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;SPIS/CCMEO/CCRS - Richard Fernandes ( Research Scientist )
580 Booth Street , Ottawa ,
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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