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clms_lai_global_300m_10daily_v1·dataset

Global leaf density of plant canopies, 300m (Copernicus, to 2026)

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

What it measures. Reports leaf area index, the amount of leaf surface above the ground, signalling how leafy and dense the vegetation is.

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

How & where you'd use it. Supports crop and forest monitoring, vegetation-health assessment and climate modelling. This version covers January 2014 through 2026.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSLAILeaf Area Indexvegetation 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

Defined as half the total area of green elements of the canopy per unit horizontal ground area. 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_lai_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.