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clms_lsp_global_300m_yearly_v1·dataset

Yearly plant growing-season timing worldwide (Copernicus)

CLMS LSP Global 300m yearly V1
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COG
In plain English

What it measures. Once a year it captures the rhythm of plant life: when vegetation starts greening up, peaks, and fades, and how strong each phase was. These are the seasonal milestones of the growing cycle.

How it's made. Generated by ESA Copernicus from the OLCI instrument on Sentinel-3, delivered as annual maps at about 300-meter resolution from 2023 onward.

How & where you'd use it. Lets farmers, ecologists, and climate scientists see how growing seasons shift from year to year, spot early or late springs, and monitor crops and natural vegetation.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSLSPLand Surface Phenologyvegetation phenologyglobalyearly300mSentinel-3OLCI

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-01-01 → 2025-02-28
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.998513, 179.9985148, 80.0014881
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

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

Provides yearly Land Surface Phenology parameters describing when change happened in time and how intensive it was during key phases of the vegetation development cycle. Annual products are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of 300 m from 2023 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_lsp_global_300m_yearly_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.