Dataset Open Access
Moesinger, Leander;
Dorigo, Wouter;
De Jeu, Richard;
Van der Schalie, Robin;
Scanlon, Tracy;
Teubner, Irene;
Forkel, Matthias
Related paper containing detailed description: Moesinger et al. (2020)
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) describes the attenuation of radiation by plants. VOD a function of frequency as well as vegetation water content, and by extension biomass. VOD has many possible applications in studies of the biosphere, such as biomass monitoring, drought monitoring, phenology analyzes or fire risk management.
We merged VOD observations from various spaceborne sensors (SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, AMSR2, WindSat) to create global long-term vod time series. Prior to aggregation the data has been rescaled to AMSR-E, removing systematic differences between them.
There is a product for C-band (~6.9 GHz, 2002 - 2018), X-band (10.7 GHz, 1997 - 2018) and Ku-band (~19 GHz, 1987 - 2017). The data is global sampled on a regular 0.25 degrees grid. Each product is available as daily global netcdf4 files.
Currently there is an issue with opening the file using ESA SNAP. As an alternative Panoply can be used to quickly visualize the data.
An update of VODCA, addressing this issue and potentially including an extension of the dataset, is foreseen to be published on Zenodo early 2020.
Please contact us if you have any questions, problems or suggestions for improvement!
Files:
Variables of data in VODCA files:
Name | Size | |
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ESA-CCI-SOILMOISTURE-LAND_AND_RAINFOREST_MASK-fv04.2.nc
md5:fdceb45eea118e9ff34560a20286dbee |
84.4 kB | Download |
VODCA_C-band_2002-2018_v01.0.0.zip
md5:f91a0f3545e719ebe6347761c818e248 |
4.6 GB | Download |
VODCA_Ku-band_1987-2017_v01.0.0.zip
md5:5a4a0e937a46e5e7615c3dcffd4c255d |
10.7 GB | Download |
vodca_v01-0_K-band_2007-06-01.nc
md5:af5d0fce706473ebd267b43ec7c30c22 |
24.9 MB | Download |
VODCA_X-band_1997-2018_v01.0.0.zip
md5:46eefc8c92aecb7bfe78a2ee0f19fb9a |
6.5 GB | Download |
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