clms_lai_global_300m_10daily_v2·dataset
Global leaf density, ongoing 300m (Copernicus)
CLMS LAI Global 300m 10-daily V2
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus active COGNetCDF
In plain English
What it measures. Measures leaf area index, how much leaf surface is packed above each patch of ground, a good gauge of canopy density and plant 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 and near real time.
How & where you'd use it. Helps with up-to-date crop and forest monitoring, vegetation-health checks and climate research. Runs from January 2014 to the present.
What's measured
CopernicusCLMSLAILeaf Area Indexvegetation 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
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 present.
Get the data
# 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_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 / xarrayBrowsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.
Official links
- Open data source Copernicus STAC