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clms_fcover_global_300m_10daily_v1·dataset

Green ground cover, 300m detail (Copernicus, to 2026)

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

What it measures. Measures what portion of the land surface is covered by green vegetation, viewed from above. Higher values mean denser plant cover.

How it's made. Made by ESA Copernicus from the PROBA-V satellite, with an estimate every ten days at roughly 300-metre detail and near real time.

How & where you'd use it. Helps track vegetation density, land condition and drought, and supports environmental modelling. This version spans January 2014 through 2026.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSFCOVERFraction of Green Vegetation Covervegetation 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 Green Vegetation Cover. 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_fcover_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.