Slope of the Green-down Period 2017-present (raster 10 m), Europe, yearly, Sept. 2021

The slope of the green-down or senescent period (Right Slope, RSLOPE), one of the Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (VPP) parameters, is a product of the pan-European High Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (HR-VPP) component of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS).

The slope of the green-down or senescent period (RSLOPE) expresses the rate of change in the values of the Plant Phenology Index (PPI) at the day when the vegetation growing season ends.

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, with 5-day satellite revisit cycle, are first used in a function fitting to derive the PPI Seasonal Trajectories, which is a filtered time series with regular 10-day time step. 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 green-down period slope is one of the 13 parameters.

A complementary quality indicator (QFLAG) provides a confidence level, that is described in table 4 of the same manual.

The RSLOPE dataset is made available as raster files with 10 x 10m resolution, in UTM/WGS84 projection corresponding to the Sentinel-2 tiling grid, for those tiles that cover the EEA38 countries and the United Kingdom and for two seasons in each year from 2017 onwards. It is updated in the first quarter of each year.

Identification info

Date (Publication): 2021-09-02

Date (Creation): 2021-09-02

Edition: 01.01

Citation identifier: copernicus_r_utm-wgs84_10_m_hrvpp-vpp-rslope_p_2017-now_v01_r01

Identifier

Code: 10.2909/a04554dd-74be-4ce7-8dfc-5effca405eaa

Point of contact

Organisation	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Commission		https://commission.europa.eu	Owner
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service	copernicus@eea.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu	Custodian
European Environment Agency	sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Publisher
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk	copernicus@eea.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk	Point of contact

Spatial representation type: Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution: 10 m

Topic category

Environment
Imagery base maps earth cover
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2017-01-01

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

GEMET

plant ecology
index
vegetation
land
productivity
remote sensing
plant production

Spatial scope

European

Temporal resolution

Annually

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

EEA38 (from 2020)
United Kingdom

Resource constraints

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.

Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:

1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.

2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.

3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

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Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

GeoTIFF

OnLine resource: CLMS_HRVPP_VPP_RSLOPE_SEASON2_10M

OnLine resource: OpenSearch API

OnLine resource: CLMS_HRVPP_VPP_RSLOPE_SEASON2_10M

OnLine resource

https://doi.org/10.2909/a04554dd-74be-4ce7-8dfc-5effca405eaa

OnLine resource: CLMS_HRVPP_VPP_RSLOPE_SEASON1_10M

OnLine resource: CLMS_HRVPP_VPP_RSLOPE_SEASON1_10M

OnLine resource: WEkEO Portal

Download (requires authentication)

OnLine resource: CLMS Website

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OnLine resource: Product Information & Technical Documentation

Data quality info

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Report

Result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

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 software. One of the parameters is the slope of the green-down period (Right Slope - RSLOPE), that expresses the slope or rate of change in the PPI vegetation index values at the day when the season ends. The date and PPI value for the season end are available as well.