ETfAPAR
| Site: | EUMETSAT Moodle |
| Course: | User workshop and training on fire monitoring products (2020) |
| Book: | ETfAPAR |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Thursday, 26 December 2024, 11:11 AM |
Description
FAPAR accounts for the active radiation absorbed by the canopy in the range of 400-700 nm, and therefore constitutes an indicator of the health and thereby productivity of vegetation. It is thus suitable to quantify CO2 uptake by plants and the water release through evapotranspiration.
1. Spatial characteristics
- Projection
Sinusoidal projection, centered at (0oN, 0oW)
- Resolution
1.1km×1.1km
- Product Units
The FAPAR product is expressed in the range from 0 to 1.
Time Frequency
ETfA
HDF5
- Filenaming
The timeslot in the filename of this product corresponds to the last day of the 20-day time-compositing period.
For example, the filename HDF5_LSASAF_M01-AVHR_ETFAPAR_GLOBE_201611250000 with day of production 25th November corresponds to the period November 6th-25th, 2016