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clms_fapar_global_300m_10daily_v2·dataset

Global sunlight absorbed by plants, ongoing 300m (Copernicus)

CLMS FAPAR Global 300m 10-daily V2
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus active COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Reports how much of the incoming sunlight is taken up by green vegetation for photosynthesis, a measure of canopy activity and vigour.

How it's made. Generated by ESA Copernicus from the PROBA-V and Sentinel-3 OLCI instruments, updated every ten days at roughly 300-metre detail.

How & where you'd use it. Supports near-real-time vegetation and crop monitoring, drought tracking and climate research. Runs from January 2014 to the present.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSFAPARFraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiationvegetation biophysicalglobal10-daily300mPROBA-VSentinel-3OLCI

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2013-06-14 → ongoing
  • 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 present.

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_v2"],   # 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.