Upgrade of MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Dataset

16 December 2022, by Stefan Kern

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We upgraded the TERRA-MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction data set from version 6.0 to version 6.1 and extended it by two years. The data are hence now available at annual temporal resolution for the period 2000-2021. Like for MODIS LAI/FAPAR you can choose between two flavours: tiled data with 250 m x 250 m grid resolution on the MODIS sinusoidal grid or global data with 0.5° x 0.5° grid resolution on a global climate modeling grid:

MODIS Percentage Forest Cover Fraction

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