EEA geospatial data catalogue
Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity: Plant phenology index (raster 500m), Oct. 2022
This metadata refers to the Plant Phenology Index (PPI) dataset, one of the near real-time (NRT) Vegetation Index products of the pan-European Medium Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (MR-VPP), component of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS).
The Plant Phenology Index (PPI) is a physically based vegetation index for improved monitoring of plant phenology, that is developed from a simplified solution to the radiative transfer equation by Jin and Eklundh (2014). PPI has a linear relationship with green leaf area index, a strong correlation with gross primary productivity, and is capable of disentangling remotely sensed plant phenology from snow seasonality. It is reported to be superior to other indices for spring phenology retrieval over the northern latitudes and for GPP estimation in African semi-arid ecosystems. Comparison of satellite-derived PPI to ground observations of plant phenology and gross primary productivity (GPP) shows strong similarity of temporal patterns over several Nordic boreal forest sites.
The PPI time series dataset is made available as raster files with 500 x 500m resolution, in ETRS89-LAEA projection corresponding to the MCD43 tiling grid, for those tiles that cover the EEA38 countries and the United Kingdom and for the period from January 2000 until today.
The full on-line access to open and free data for this resource will be made available in the second half of 2025.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-06-08
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-10-10
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- copernicus_r_3035_500_m_mrvpp-ppi_p_2000-now_v01_r00
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Commission
Owner Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Custodian European Environment Agency
Publisher Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 500 m
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and biotopes
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Orthoimagery
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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United Kingdom
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- GEMET
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plant ecology
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plant production
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productivity
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land
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remote sensing
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index
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vegetation
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- Temporal resolution
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Annually
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- EEA topics
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Agriculture and food
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Land use
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Forests and forestry
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF
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- OnLine resource
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User manual
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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- 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 software. The Plant Phenology Index (PPI) is a physically based vegetation index for improved monitoring of plant phenology, that is developed from a simplified solution to the radiative transfer equation by Jin and Eklundh (2014). PPI has a linear relationship with green leaf area index, a strong correlation with gross primary productivity, and is capable of disentangling remotely sensed plant phenology from snow seasonality. It is reported to be superior to other indices for spring phenology retrieval over the northern latitudes and for GPP estimation in African semi-arid ecosystems.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
- Maintenance and update frequency
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- de0bc1e4-5b32-44fa-9690-1eb9e64aff9d
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/de0bc1e4-5b32-44fa-9690-1eb9e64aff9d
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-06-14T11:08:11.107Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:18:43.130769Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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