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clms_ndvi_global_1km_10daily_v2·dataset

Global vegetation greenness, 1999-2020 (Copernicus)

CLMS NDVI Global 1km 10-daily V2
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Maps how green and leafy vegetation is across the planet every ten days, a standard measure of plant vigor. This long record runs from 1999 to June 2020.

How it's made. Created by ESA Copernicus from SPOT-VEGETATION and PROBA-V satellite data at about 1-kilometer resolution.

How & where you'd use it. Widely used to track droughts, crop health, deforestation, and seasonal plant cycles, and to study two decades of global vegetation change.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSNDVINormalised Difference Vegetation Indexvegetation monitoringglobal10-daily1kmSPOTVEGETATIONPROBA-V

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1998-04-01 → 2020-12-31
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.9955357, 179.9955357, 80.0044643
  • 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

NDVI is an indicator of the greenness of the biomes. Every 10-days estimates are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of about 1 km and with the temporal extent from 1999 to June 2020.

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_ndvi_global_1km_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.