Extension of MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Dataset

7 July 2023, by Stefan Kern

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We extended the TERRA-MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction data set, version 6.1, by data of the year 2022. With that the data are now available at annual temporal resolution for the period 2000-2022. 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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