EEA geospatial data catalogue
Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity: Start-of-season date 2000-2025 (raster 500m)
The start-of-season date (SOSD) marks the date when the vegetation growing season starts in the time profile of the Plant Phenology Index (PPI). The start-of-season occurs, by definition, when the PPI value reaches 25% of the season amplitude during the green-up period.
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, withwith daily inputs, are first used in a function fitting to derive the PPI Seasonal Trajectories. 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 SOSD is one of the 13 parameters.
The Start-of-Season Date (SOSD) time series dataset is made available as raster files with 500 x 500m resolution, in ETRS89-LAEA projection corresponding to the MCD43 tiling grid.
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Date (Creation)
- 2026-04-28
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01.00
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Citation identifier
- copernicus_r_3035_500_m_mrvpp-sosd_p_2000-2025_v05_r00
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Commission
OwnerCopernicus Land Monitoring Service
CustodianEuropean Environment Agency
PublisherCopernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
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Spatial resolution
- 500 m
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Environment
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Imagery base maps earth cover
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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- 2000-01-01 2025-12-31
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Annually
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- no limitations to public access
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OnLine resource
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Product Information & Technical Documentation
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OnLine resource
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CLMS Website
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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
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Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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Statement
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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 4 software. One of the parameters is the start date of the vegetation growing season (start-of-season date (SOSD) . The related PPI value and slope (rate of PPI change) for this date are available as well.
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Code
- EPSG:3035
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Metadata identifier
- a7b2369b-dd62-4d02-99e2-e5d74a8ec83a
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Language
- English
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UTF8
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
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Date info (Creation)
- 2022-06-08T14:43:13.811Z
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Date info (Revision)
- 2026-07-10T15:13:50.064318Z
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ISO 19115/19139
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1.0
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