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clms_fapar_global_300m_10daily_v1·dataset

Global sunlight absorbed by plants, 300m (Copernicus, to 2026)

CLMS FAPAR Global 300m 10-daily V1
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Captures the fraction of sunlight that vegetation absorbs for photosynthesis, indicating how much active green canopy is present.

How it's made. Produced by ESA Copernicus from the PROBA-V satellite, delivered every ten days at about 300-metre detail and close to real time.

How & where you'd use it. Feeds crop monitoring, drought assessment and ecosystem and climate models. This version covers January 2014 through 2026.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSFAPARFraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiationvegetation biophysicalglobal10-daily300mPROBA-V

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2013-10-16 → 2026-02-28
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.9985119, 179.9985119, 80.0014881
  • FormatsCOG, NetCDF

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation. Every 10-days estimates are available in near real time at global scale in the spatial resolution of about 300 m from January 2014 to 2026.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["clms_fapar_global_300m_10daily_v1"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.